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 Monday, July 23, 2007
Two Days to San Diego
Posted by maggie

What a great time to start a blog, right?

I hope you’ll join me in the wonder world of bloggery, finding entertainment in my errors, correcting the facts I get wrong, and scanning my posts for the facts that will (I hope) lie embedded in the words, words, words.

To begin with, let me provide a brief explanation of my blog title. Old-timers may remember that “Beautiful Balloons” was the title that my late husband, Don, and I used for our column in Buyer’s Guide from the start. It was a reference to the song containing the lyric, “Up, up, and away in my beautiful balloon,” the fact that comics communicate via speech balloons, and that Superman’s catch phrase was, “Up, up, and away!”

Get it?

Got it!

Good!





7/23/2007 3:49:41 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #  Comments [3]
7/24/2007 4:54:51 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Hi Maggie, good luck with the blob. The 'beautiful balloons' song was used for a bread TV ad in the uK, for years, so now when I think of you, I think of Nimble.

http://www.ballooninghistory.com/cameron/NimbleHangBalloon.jpg

(Oh dear, this could be your most boring response ever, sorry!)
7/25/2007 7:28:42 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
PS - Have you noticed that when you click to access this link the new window says Beautiful BALLONS? How very French.
8/8/2007 12:00:32 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
I not only noticed, I e-mailed the kindly soul who administers the site and whined until the problem was fixed. I do read French a bit, but ...
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