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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5588181" data-attributes="member: 19675">&quot;When bears fly&quot;Seemingly an expression of doing something only after an extremely improbable event, this Gnomish saying actually means &quot;I'll do _______ at 1PM, and you're NOT going to like it.&quot;&nbsp; It refers to an event when an Orcish tribal chieftan forced a Gnomish master craftsman to create a powerful siege engine by holding his family hostage.&nbsp; The counterweight consisted of several bear carcasses.&nbsp; At 1PM, the craftsman was told to fire the new weapon at walls of the city the Orc horde was besieging, timed to coincide with the sortie of cavalry the city dwellers launched like clockwork.&nbsp; The ver was released, and after many gears whirred and cogs spun, the weapon delivered it's payload- the counterweight bear carcasses were flung through the air in a wide, low spread through the leaders' pavilion tent, killing the chieftan and most of his high-level subordinates.&nbsp; In the ensuing confusion due to this &quot;accident&quot; coupled with the city's sortie, the craftsman escaped with his family, and the horde was scattered.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5588181, member: 19675"] "When bears fly" Seemingly an expression of doing something only after an extremely improbable event, this Gnomish saying actually means "I'll do _______ at 1PM, and you're NOT going to like it." It refers to an event when an Orcish tribal chieftan forced a Gnomish master craftsman to create a powerful siege engine by holding his family hostage. The counterweight consisted of several bear carcasses. At 1PM, the craftsman was told to fire the new weapon at walls of the city the Orc horde was besieging, timed to coincide with the sortie of cavalry the city dwellers launched like clockwork. The ver was released, and after many gears whirred and cogs spun, the weapon delivered it's payload- the counterweight bear carcasses were flung through the air in a wide, low spread through the leaders' pavilion tent, killing the chieftan and most of his high-level subordinates. In the ensuing confusion due to this "accident" coupled with the city's sortie, the craftsman escaped with his family, and the horde was scattered. [/QUOTE]

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