MetaFilter posts tagged with ballooning

Grass Roots. Blue Sky.

netbros — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:40:11 -0800

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Real Danny Deckchairs

Susurration — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:40:34 -0800

While the Darwin awards look away ... cluster ballooning is taking off. More and more people are taking to the sky with a cluster of helium balloons and a lawn chair.

Elephant Polo and other strange things

HuronBob — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:15:42 -0800

Elephant Polo. Alf Leif Erickson is the Captain of the American Screw Tuskers Elephant Polo team . Alf is a retired attorney and former law professor from Florida. This alone doesn't make much of a post, but, you guessed it, there more, sometimes NSFW, inside..... It seems that Alf retired to Bangkok and maintains a site called "Alf's Balloons", with a focus on, well, balloons, and of course corkscrews, and elephant polo. Alf's elephant polo team seems to consist entirely of transexuals (the riders, that is, not the elephants). Don't let the somewhat odd nature of the polo team throw you, because it doesn't really get strange (and, by the way, NSFW) until you begin to explore the inner workings of Alf's PatPong Corkscrew Club. This is no casual club, annual meetings are held, and the club, like, I assume, all corkscrew clubs, of course, its own balloon and meetings where the members sit naked on Alf's lap. Spend some time exploring Alf's world.

big silver gas bag

lerrup — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:03:38 -0800

A Big Balloon will be launched from a ship off the coast at St Ives, Cornwall. In it, two brave (or foolhardy) men are going very, very high "to the edge of space"; in a f**!ing balloon! If that's not exciting enough for you, you can always go to the Tate, take in some industrial archeology, learn kernewek or go to Eden But don't forget to have a pasty