"It makes a hell of a difference whether John F. Kennedy was killed by just a loose cannon running around or a Secret Service agent working for the East," said Stefan Aust, the former editor in chief of the weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel.
And not only that, but Carrie is a loose cannon rolling around on deck, a little bit.
(One of them is shot from a cannon and careers around above the audience, brandishing what appeared to be a Spider-Man T-shirt).
He also invented a system of casting cannon around a hollow core cooled from inside, resulting in a stronger barrel as concentric layers of metal cooled and shrank one upon another.
As if on cue Shafiq mounted a cannon and began to spin around like a teacup ride at Disneyland, only this cup carried twin-barrels of death.
Federer was defeated by Fernando González of Chile, who has been regarded for much of his career as a journeyman with a somewhat one-dimensional game, built around a cannon of a forehand.
And, once you've mastered its touchscreen-based flight controls, there's more fun to be had with a pair of plug-in expansion modules: a grabber to pick up and drop off small items and a cannon that pings small green pellets around the living room.
When producing a particular chocolate for the first time, a mini-game is played where ingredients are fired from a cannon to fill circular trays which revolve around the cannon.
How odd it is to stand before tollbooths, under interstate signs, waiting around for the sound of a cannon.
