Was there ever a Corps or body of slingers attached to or part of the organization known as the Knights Templars ?

I seem to remember Knights wizzing into the abyss after giving the wrong answer in Monty Pythons Movie . Were thry slung there ? Or were the French the Templars slinging cows at the Engish. I'm confused :P

both, but those where king arthurs knights not not templar. I dont think they would use slingers, the knights templar seem to be more a branch of the military then an army in there own right. They where on there own yes but they only would of had knights. Ill stop now im confuseing my self :-/

The Knights Templars had different levels and not all were actual "Knights" in the sense that they were heavily armoured, mounted troops. They also had their own archers, so why not slingers? ???

I imagine their slingers might well be mixed in with the archers, if they had them.

wrote on Mar 10^th, 2006 at 4:30pm:

I seem to remember Knights wizzing into the abyss after giving the wrong answer in Monty Pythons Movie .

No... They were flung into the "Gorge of eternal peril" (perhaps you can remember what "peril" is from the tale of Sir Galahad the Pure) by a spring-loaded device much like a catapult. It'd be too hard to sling someone without tying them up anyway. You'd have to use a trebuchet-like device just to sling such a large mass. (Did you know that at least one person in history has been trebuchet-ed into a stone wall?)

he must have been sore after that :-/

what did he do to deserve that?

Hahaha, yeah. One thing I love about the middle ages was how creative they were. I heard William the Conquorer would capture people trying to escape from a beseiged castle, and catapult their heads back into it.

that has to be fun :o imagine the head of your escaped daughter falling on your roof :-/ one way of sending morale Waaay down :-/

Were the Templars the guys that rode two to a horse ? Whats with that anyway ? :-/

I dont think that was them maybe hospitalers? it was something about how poor they where. if it where a big horse it would almost be an advantage to have a "Wing man" :)

I could see it if they were poor . It just looks funny . You know , sort of wierd :P

I'd rather face the peril of the Castle Anthrax than be slung into the pit. ;D ;D

wrote on Mar 16^th, 2006 at 10:17pm:

I'd rather face the peril of the Castle Anthrax than be slung into the pit. ;D ;D

Well, logically, it'd make more sense to want to be flung into the Gorge of Eternal Peril. After all, Castle Anthrax was just perilous. The Gorge was that of Eternal Peril.

Suppose I just wanted alittle peril?? ;)

yeah just let me have a little peril.... ;D

No!  It's unhealthy. >:(

i don't care  >:( i Want it :'(

Yay peril! ;D

;D SlingWolf ;D

I want a bucket of Peril tenders, with a side of mashed hazard and some dangerslaw, please with a litre of precarious Cola! But hold the heartburn, please. I'm a wimp when it comes to pain.

How did we end up on this topic... i dont even know what this topic was about anymore!  ???

;D SlingWolf ;D

welcome to slinging.org that happens all the time, around here. And I wouldn;t have it any other way.

Haha.... Like one topic (cant remember which one) some how developed into a zombie story

;D SlingWolf ;D

wrote on Mar 19^th, 2006 at 8:33pm:

I want a bucket of Peril tenders, with a side of mashed hazard and some dangerslaw, please with a litre of precarious Cola! But hold the heartburn, please. I'm a wimp when it comes to pain.

whaaaa Lovely ;D second that one for me  ;D

Ill just drink the city water thats dangerous enough for me thanks.


Peril tenders wonder if they serve them at hooters?

They'll serve just about anybody at Hooters. ;)

haha my grandfather who is 70 ate there once or twice. He has a picture of all the hooter girls siting next to him. My grandmother makes him hang it up in the garage and it makes her mad every time she sees it ::)

wrote on Mar 20^th, 2006 at 7:56pm:

Ill just drink the city water thats dangerous enough for me thanks. Peril tenders wonder if they serve them at hooters?

city water doug ? would that be the tap water or from the open sewers called streams by the gov as they do overhere? :P

a mix of both i think. haha along with the paper this morning we got a boiling warning :)

Now the neighbors know why i drive 20 min got haul springwater out of the woods :P

you could do that...or get bottles from a store like we do  :P

Our town resevoir has won a bunch of awards for being the best in the state  :P

well jugs of spring water here are 50 cents each. Now we have a familey of 6 and we dont even use the water for cooking. So we haul around 50 jugs every 10 days. So thats like 25$ every 10 days if we bought them :)