Posted on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 06:09 — by crysalis
OK......more goverment control. If they ban Mylar balloons, they have to ban LATEX balloons also. These are hazardous to the health of people with Latex allergies, like DEATH. Now if this happens, think of all the people put out of work...factory workers and managers; people in party supply stores; owners go bankrupt; depressed people due to no balloons to cheer them up; sad children; then lets ban birthday cakes....wasted calories and unhealthy!; ban greeting cards....death of trees.....now more people unemployed.....companies bankrupted....WHERE WILL IT END?
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I'm staying mum on the subject...
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Maybe they're waiting for someone to come up with an organic alternative. A literal organic alternative might be the millions of pig and cow bladders that are going to waste every year. A whole new industry could be developed where these organs could be cleaned, sterilized, dried, dyed and hand painted for various occasions. 'Nothing quite as festive as a room full of helium filled animal bladders.
Afterward, they could be filled with water and used in your earthquake prepairedness pack.
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This is one of the most important issues facing us in this day and age. We can't have these things near children bacause they might accidentally release it into the air and by chance it could find its way to a power line blow the entire western US grid. They make it sound like banning these balloons will prevent all future power failures.
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If metal is an actual component in Mylar balloons, it would make more sense to remove it from the formula and continue sales of balloons made with the remaining ingredients. They seem to be an extremely light-weight plastic more than anything else. Assuming that plastic would not wreak havoc with power lines any more than latex balloons, that would seem the most sensible solution.
I'm sure hospitals and patients also would be grateful to continue having an option to latex balloons. That I am aware, latex balloons have been banned from most, if not all, hospitals these days due to dangerous allergic reactions in sensitive individuals.
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BAZOOKA JOE, that balloon is the cutest thing I've ever seen!
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That's not a balloon, that's me!
001, when I was in little league, at the pancake breakfast they had a contest where you tied a message with your name and phone number on a helium balloon and let it go and the one that traveled the furthest won a price. Mine went all the way to Dixon and I won a brand new transistor radio! That's how I became a big A's fan listening to their games! I'd hate to think that if they did that nowadays you might knock out all the power in Dixon, Davis and Sacramento and get a big bill for all the repairs!
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Those were the days, my friend. I can remember quite a few nights glued to a trnsistor radio listeneing to ball games. Hey, was this your radio? It looks a lot like your balloon.
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"That's not a balloon, that's me!"
There's a dirty joke there somewhere.
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LOL... hey 001, is that a Magilla Gorilla radio?
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It sure looks like it could be.