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In the midst of recovering from some Saturday evening activities, Gothamist missed Flugtag, a competition/publicity stunt sponsored by Red Bull, where, according to the Times, the goal was to "to launch a homemade, human-powered object off a barge and send it into the air as far it could go." All because Red Bull's slogan is "it gives you wings." Gives us a headache, too, but, yeah, we follow. Some of the objects launched: 150 pound synthetic hamburger (Heli-Burger), foam baby grand piano, and a flying nose (The Schnoz). However, Pedal Power won. (Mighty Whirl is pictured.) But as meat is most interesting, Heli-Burger pilot Ross Lutman explained why hamburger: "I like meat. I like hamburgers. And you can't make a steak fly. Burgers are more aerodynamic, steaks are not."
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It was a brutal nightmare. Thousands of fratboys and jerseyites. Ear-mangling loudspeakers everywhere blaring the two MCs, who were "Jimmy the Frat Boy" (presumably some atrocious drive-time DJ) and... wait for it... Gilbert Gottfried. Yeah, those are two voices I'd love to have driven into my skull for three hours. You couldn't see a Goddamned thing and I got a beach ball bounced off my head by some thickneck - what they used to call "Smear the Queer" - so I went to Blind Tiger for a beer.
Yeah, but can PIGS fly? What about barbecued ones?
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