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Why would you want to do this?

Posted on: October 28, 2009 8:29 PM, by Greg Laden

He gets that question a lot from women. He says.

Wow, that was cool.

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"World Champion Anvil Shooter" - not many people have that on their CV, or even want to :)

Posted by: NewEnglandBob | October 28, 2009 10:22 PM

"World Champion Anvil Blower-upper" is a little more accurate.

And yes, that was cool!

Posted by: mk | October 28, 2009 10:41 PM

I'm an odd girl cuz I love that stuff. Explosions are pretty damned fun. Something about combustion is just thrilling. Speaking of, did you see the Ares launch today? It was spectacular. :)

Posted by: Kammy | October 28, 2009 10:59 PM

There's a world championship for anvil shooting?

Posted by: orion | October 29, 2009 12:13 AM

Now that is spectacular! Yes, I'm male and I immediately understood it.

Posted by: Tony P | October 29, 2009 1:09 AM

Kammy, yes, I saw Ares, that was cool.

Posted by: Greg Laden | October 29, 2009 7:10 AM

You can bet your bottom dollar that Adam Savage would love it [and more than Jamie, too]

Posted by: natural cynic | October 29, 2009 1:07 PM

It is really spiffy, but it does look like a Darwin Award waiting to happen.

Posted by: cpsmith | October 29, 2009 1:56 PM

Female here, and my thought was "wow, where I can I do that for myself". Things that go kaboom are *fun*, regardless of the gender of the observer. In fact, I'm just about to email this to some (mostly female) friends.

Posted by: stripey_cat | October 29, 2009 2:59 PM

My wife loves that stuff as much as I do. There is only one thing more fun than watching other people blow shit up.

Posted by: GaryB | October 29, 2009 3:47 PM

I think what this guy doesn't understand is that women aren't asking him why he'd want to make explosions. They're asking why he'd want to compete with anvils when he could be blowing up all sorts of stuff whenever he wants.

Posted by: Stephanie Z | October 29, 2009 4:05 PM

First I thought "why wouldn't you want to do this?"
and then I thought "Why wouldn't you want to do this with a roadrunner around?"

Posted by: becca | October 29, 2009 4:09 PM