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Human Cannonball. Human Cannonball.
A cannonball exploded in the girl's residence, where I lived.
That's the Human Cannonball.
as the previous Human Cannonball.
If the Human Cannonball and the tiger trainer collaborated-- the guy's already flying across the tent.
I have a cannonball in my possession, sitting on a plinth, bearing an inscription on a brass plate.
The incident of a cannonball is only a dramatic example of a much more general phenomenon.
Think about cannonballs on a courthouse lawn.
It is a ballistic-- it's a cannonball, up-down thing.
was Miles Davis's record with Cannonball Adderley.
But she's like a cannonball when she got going.
His best and closest friend was Julian Cannonball Adderley.
And so the previous Human Cannonball had this job before this guy.
The reason is this-- the Human Cannonball's team-- the previous Human Cannonball's team-- made the same assumptions every day.
And Newton imagined firing a cannonball, and if you fire a cannon ball rather slowly, it will splash into the sea there.
Two of the guys had already cannonballed into the deep end of the pool while a third, Steinberg, was making a beeline for the open bar.
"Plunging my hands into the mud pit felt like dropping a cannonball into the deepest part of a swimming pool.
I mean, can you imagine if the Human Cannonball-- and we had a tiger trainer.
So we had cannons, they shot cannonballs.
It's a pretty difficult arithmetic problem to figure out where those cannonballs are going to land.
This was the first time that I really got into another saxophone player, and it was Cannonball Adderley.
And as these stories tend to do, they start with the previous Human Cannonball.
Now the way that they knew where to set up the net with the previous Human Cannonball was they had a dummy-- a mannequin that weighed the same
One night, we were running late-- or the previous Human Cannonball-- I wasn't there that year-- they were running late.
One night, when he was in bed, a cannonball penetrated the bed covers and passed between his legs, but happily did him no more than superficial damage.
You need to get up to about 18,000 miles an hour in order to actually get a spacecraft into orbit, sending them down again, like a cannonball.
And as I said, the first night in New York City, Cannonball introduced me to Harry "Sweets" Edison.
And one of the questions that I found fascinating and I wanted to ask was, how does one become the Human Cannonball?
And the next day, assuming everything was exactly the same, the previous Human Cannonball and his team loaded the dummy into the cannon.
And that afternoon, in front of 4,000 children, the previous Human Cannonball waved goodbye to all those kids, loaded himself into the cannon.
And he says, hey, would you like a job upgrade from pool guy to Human Cannonball?
And the guy took the gig, and so that's how this guy ended up as the Human Cannonball.
pasted in these holes that can take the fist, the size of a fist, like someone's fired cannonballs into the brickwork.
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