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Man fails to grasp purpose of lawn chair
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Dear Blog Guy,
At my daughter’s 6th birthday party, all the kids were taping their helium balloons to a lawn chair, trying to fly. Isn’t that cute?
It depends on how many balloons they had. Some guy in Oregon attached 105 of them to his lawn chair. He came down nine hours, and a couple hundred miles later.
Seriously? Amazing! How high did he go?
Well, we have to presume he was at least above BB gun and dart-throwing range the whole time. Anyway, he made the whole trip without a barbecue grill or an above ground pool, which is pretty amazing. Deborah Lutterbeck reports:
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Afterwards he felt terribly foolish when told he was could have avoided the whole ordeal by clicking the heels of his ruby slippers while chanting, “There’s no place like home!”
Knowing my luck, I would learn too late that it was duck season.
Was it a lawn chair or a deck chair? For that matter, what’s the difference?
If you want to come down, I understand fire works.
Not high on drugs. High on life! Oh, yeah. Drugs too.
Hey, Lady. I can see down your shirt.
That’s nothing. I can see up your shorts and that’s not nothing but it sure ain’t much.
Over Microsoft headquarters now. Release! Sweet aim! Now, where did I put the TP?
I think someone CGIed a bunch of skittles and faked it just like the moon landings.
Still far, far better than Southwest.
The things some people will do to avoid having to take their shoes off at the airport.