pic: Balloon Surprise at AndyMark

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Brandon,
We need a "disable lavery" button, pronto. He's going to hurt himself doing this and what's worse is I've got to see it unfold here, painfully.

Sheesh. And I had been in such a buoyant mood...



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[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Raul

All I can say is, be happy it was balloons and not confetti. That stuff stays in your keyboard forever.

Or silly string - although that stuff is more fun to shoot at teammates - especially when they think they have all the "ammo" and don't know you have two cans of it hiding behind you as you exit the team bus.

And I think we're all full of hot air....

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

If you guys fill this thread up with many more bad, really bad, puns - it's going to burst.

When it bursts the inflated air from our puns will expand into the atmosphere.

[Schnabel]

This thread just continues to float on.

[efoote868]

but everyone knows that next year we'll have a water balloon game.

[Collin Fultz]

Seriously...can we just let this blow over? Do nun of you have better habits than posting in this thread?

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Collin Fultz

Seriously...can we just let this blow over? Do nun of you have better habits than posting in this thread?

Yes, please. Some of these comments just go over like a lead balloon.




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[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

When it bursts the inflated air from our puns will expand into the atmosphere.

All that hot air might actually cause global warming.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

All that hot air might actually cause global warming.

And there's definitely alot of hot air in this thread.

[John Wanninger]

You guys are raving balloonatics!

[EricH]

Great. The balloonacy has gotten to me, too.

[dlavery]

The Golden Age of Ballooning can be said to begin in 1783 ... when the Montgolfier brothers made their first ascent in a fire balloon. On the eve of that ... momentous ascent, the brothers took one last look at their craft, as it stood on the field of Annencay.

Joseph : It is a great moment for France.
Jacques : Ah, oui!
Joseph : First ascent in a hot-air balloon, by the Montgolfier brothers - 1783 ... I can see us now... just after Montesquieu and just before Mozart.



... and it was at that moment that Andy "Jacques" Baker had an idea...

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[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by dlavery

... and it was at that moment that Andy "Jacques" Baker had an idea....

and believed that adding a small fan to the back of that fire-balloon would give it propellation in the near zero friction of a 45 foot altitude.

i heard the balloon flew 234 feet ...

[David Brinza]

Hate to burst your bubble folks, but some of the puns are getting stretched pretty thin here..

[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

Hate to burst your bubble folks, but some of the puns are getting stretched pretty thin here..

well, that is your opinion and you are allowed to air it here.