it’s standard comment fare, if the word ‘blimp’ is mentioned in any context, the humanities get drug out of the hold and are cast upon the comment waters.
“Oh, the humanitY!” What the announcer shouted as the blimp blazed, nights. “The Humanities” is something they used to study in college before business majors took over…Oops, that precludes humanity as well, doesn’t it?
Jeffreydahn, the Hindenburg was actually a zeppelin. Look it up.
The Hindenburg was manufactured by the Zeppelin company , it was actually a rigid dirigible. Zeppelin is/ was a brand name, like Toyota, named for Count Von Zeppelin who founded the company.
A Blimp by definition has no rigid internal structure using gas to maintain its shape. Unless the control car or propeller hit you having one crash into you might be uncomfortable but not necessarily fatal… it is however a great excuse for not paying for 6000 yogurt squirters .
A bit of trivia :
Blimps got their unusual name during WW2
when they were used as flying barriers to impede aircraft
Officially called barrage balloons they gained their nick name , Blimp, from the sound made when you flicked a fully inflated one with your finger
In such strange ways to new words enter our language, we can also thank WW2 for the word Jeep originally GP for General Purpose vehicle.
Sisyphos about 14 years ago
Um, okayyyy. –Hide in the closet; I guess that’s better than being hit by a blimp. Gotta feel sorry for the delivery guy, though….
Pacejv about 14 years ago
The best blimp in Germany took the blame.
kreole about 14 years ago
Yogurt Squirters? What, no “Set it and forget it Ronco rotisseree ovens”? Now, six thousand of them would have been over his doorstep!
gillbillvolume1 about 14 years ago
Hay I love my Ronco rotisseree oven..lol
I made kabobs just the other day
lewisbower about 14 years ago
Oh Lord, let it come by USPS and not UPS. USPS arrives before she gets up. I’ll hide the cardboard in the chimney flue.
Nighthawks Premium Member about 14 years ago
gotta say it:
“oh , the humanities!”
it’s standard comment fare, if the word ‘blimp’ is mentioned in any context, the humanities get drug out of the hold and are cast upon the comment waters.
it’s just the way it is
freeholder1 about 14 years ago
“Oh, the humanitY!” What the announcer shouted as the blimp blazed, nights. “The Humanities” is something they used to study in college before business majors took over…Oops, that precludes humanity as well, doesn’t it?
rw1h about 14 years ago
Hit by a blimp………..what are the odds of that……..?
jeffreydahn about 14 years ago
The Hindenburg wasn’t a blimp, it was a rigid dirigible.
mrslukeskywalker about 14 years ago
It would have been funnier if he hid in Binkley’s closet of fears instead. That would have been a week long storyline before the squirters arrived.
dahawk about 14 years ago
Jeffreydahn, the Hindenburg was actually a zeppelin. Look it up.
Sherlock Watson about 14 years ago
Does “hit by a blimp” mean he collided with someone who was waddling out of the Old Country Buffet?
gillbillvolume1 about 14 years ago
Jeffreydahn, the Hindenburg was actually a zeppelin. Look it up.
The Hindenburg was manufactured by the Zeppelin company , it was actually a rigid dirigible. Zeppelin is/ was a brand name, like Toyota, named for Count Von Zeppelin who founded the company.
A Blimp by definition has no rigid internal structure using gas to maintain its shape. Unless the control car or propeller hit you having one crash into you might be uncomfortable but not necessarily fatal… it is however a great excuse for not paying for 6000 yogurt squirters .
Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago
Blimp and dirigible differences be damned, I’m going to make this joke.
“Oh, the penguinity!”
ellisaana Premium Member about 14 years ago
Maybe it was the Goodyear Blimp. Opus sort of resembles that.
gillbillvolume1 about 14 years ago
A bit of trivia : Blimps got their unusual name during WW2 when they were used as flying barriers to impede aircraft Officially called barrage balloons they gained their nick name , Blimp, from the sound made when you flicked a fully inflated one with your finger
In such strange ways to new words enter our language, we can also thank WW2 for the word Jeep originally GP for General Purpose vehicle.