We had to buy fishing lines and catapults to fire the line over the Angel's wings.
After Q catapults the Enterprise 7, 000 light years across the galaxy, the crew makes first contact with the Borg.
Four elevators bring aircraft to the flight deck and fighters are launched by British-invented steam catapults known as "fat cats".
If you want to move up in the organization let it be the quality of your work that catapults you upward, not your skill in manipulation.
Prune may be too informal, too small and too far off the beaten path for some, but its incomparable contemporary cooking catapults eaters into a state of gastronomic euphoria.
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Roth counters that the deal catapults Nortel ahead of its chief competitors -- number one phone equipment maker Lucent Technologies, and Cisco Systems, the largest Internet switching gear manufacturer.
So they are buying a version of the next-generation joint strike fighter that can take off and land vertically, eliminating the need for long runways or aircraft carrier catapults.
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My wish is that 2013 marks the tipping point that catapults us to the next level of the human experience and we let go of the reigns holding us back.
Sure, he lacks the traditional Hollywood skill set that catapults a Johnny Depp to no. 1 at the box office or a Lady Gaga to the top of the music charts.
Abandoning the plan to fit the "catapults and traps" needed by the F35-C to one of the carriers while mothballing the other, opened up the possibility that both could eventually become operational, it argued.
Several factors have combined to today's decision to buy a short take-off and vertical landing version of the plane (the F-35B) rather than the more capable F-35C variant that would have required catapults to hurl it skywards.
BBC: Why did coalition government change fighter plane plan?
They've spent months working with the community in Govan to create a piece which will involve firing language across the river, using unusual or obsolete technology - everything from choirs to flags to medieval catapults (their trebuchet is well under way in a nearby lockup).
Downing Street, it seems, wanted some positive headlines out of the SDSR, which was largely an exercise in cutbacks, so it decided to back the idea of Britain getting a "grown up" aircraft carrier, ie one launching conventional aircraft with catapults rather than a very large replacement "Harrier Carrier".
BBC: Why did coalition government change fighter plane plan?
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