Brevity by Dan Thompson for April 03, 2012

1st Voice Over: Meanwhile for Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the year 1908 was a year of triumph. (Cut to interior of a zeppelin. A party. Expensively dressed guests. Champagne. A palm court orchestra playing. Some guests looking out of the windows in wonderment.) Von Bulow: (approaching Zeppelin) Herr Zeppelin – it’s wonderful! It’s put ballooning right back on the map. (Zeppelin goes instantly berserk with anger.) Zeppelin: It’s not a balloon! D’you hear?… It’s not a balloon … It’s an airship … an airship … d’you hear? (He hits him very hard on the top of the head with the underside of his fist.)Von Bulow: Well, it’s very nice anyway. Tirpitz: (to Zeppelin) Tell me, what is the principle of these balloons? Zeppelin: It’s not a balloon! You stupid little thick-headed Saxon git! It’s not a balloon! Balloons is for kiddy-winkies. If you want to play with balloons, get outside. (Drags Tirpitz over to the door, opens it and flings him out into the clouds.) Tirpitz: Aaaaaaaaaghhh!

A whole lot of love

x_Tech…. LOL…. I think the Pythons also got into the free coffee….

Where’s Snoopy?

For those readers that would like something more visual it’s The Golden Age of Ballooning Part 6 of 3

They had good times and they had some bad times; but that era finally ended in a blast.

@x_Tech: the year 1908 was a year of triumph.That was a Goodyear.

Moments later . . .

It’s too soon for jokes.

It will always be too soon.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me.When I’m sixty-four?

good one

Mmmm….free breakfast bar!

When the Hindenburg burst into flames, didn’t the radio announcer watching the tragedy say “Oh! The insanity! The insanity!” I’ve seen a film of it somewhere.

Oh the huge manatee!

About the Hindenburg Disaster on May 6 1937.

The occupants soon saw their Stairway to Heaven….

Is that a sea cow I see over there?Oh, the manatee!