posted 23 September 2002 11:35 AM
hey boss look out your window see that balloon over there question mark now doesn t that look like a better way to get around i know i have wings and all but a roach gets tired and even my way of flying is noisy
ever been up in one of those things question mark so quiet i imagine nothing to hear but the wind no news no talk of wars an adventure too if you don t have wings yourself because you don t know where you ll end up and have to walk back more people should have that experience i think what do you think mehitabel question mark i m sure you remember going up with the montgolfier brothers back in the day as they say nowadays though they never seem quite sure which day
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posted 23 September 2002 12:11 PM
but archy it was not so quiet at all up there i didn t mind the duck or the sheep so much but that damned cockerel crowing the whole way about how he could fly on his own if he really wanted to i tell you archy i was tempted
but i am as you know always a lady and besides etienne had such beautiful eyes pools of chocolate if we hadn t been so crowded but we were
actually archy they brought us back in a coach that day for an audience with louis and marie the clueless i knew them already of course and it wasn t her fault but you couldn t tell her anything oh no not her the splendid sweet airhead ah well i did my best
the duck was plump and modest and tempting too but it was science archy so i gave it my all je ne regrette rien although some thanks would be nice
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posted 23 September 2002 12:44 PM
mehitabel i always love to hear your stories having only had the one former life myself and as a vers libre poet it wasn t nearly so glamourous
i ve met cockerels like that loud braggarts all right well the cheaper the bird the gaudier the patter as your friend bogie once said glamour be damned give me flight any day
but i also remember another story mehitabel about balloons at the siege of paris weren t you there too question mark
and as for giving your all to science admirable all right but at least unlike that poor russian dog it wasn t a one way trip
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posted 23 September 2002 01:29 PM
i went with leon you know archy because we were needed in tours he was so pale when we took off but i sang wotthehell wotthehell to keep his spirits up and besides the sailors brought champagne
a few of those balls the prussians fired at us came mighty close but we spritzed them back and shouted down toujours gai and va t en foutre and other patriotic sayings even leon became very gai after a while wink
you know archy you are right about balloons the prussians couldn t seem to get the hang of them not flying them nor shooting them down neither they were not gai i guess not gai enough anyway
we were very gai and we won the battle of the balloons although we lost that war eventually but wotthehell wotthehell i was in monaco by then it was winter after all
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posted 23 September 2002 01:49 PM
you might be right about the prussians mehitabel at least back then but what about the zeppelins question mark not very gai maybe but sleek and stylish an elegant way to travel by air come to think of it weren t you on those too question mark in fact if i remember right you were even on the hindenburg it s a lucky thing you ve had more than the usual nine lives
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posted 23 September 2002 06:22 PM
anyway I like balloons we need more balloons you can t drop bombs from them well ok it happened but planes have passed them by in that respect there s no such thing as a fighter balloon you can t crash them into buildings well ok it happened but it just bounced off and no one was hurt and everybody laughed
have any of you folks been up in a balloon question mark
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