From balloon-request@cvs.rochester.edu Sun Jan 29 00:20:21 1995 Received: from swift.cvs.rochester.edu by mother.ent.rochester.edu with SMTP id AA25067 (5.65/IDA-1.4.4 for /usr/local/lib/lists/balloon.archive); Sun, 29 Jan 1995 00:20:21 -0500 Received: by cvs.rochester.edu (4.1/MAIN-MX-1.4.3.1) id AA19022; Sun, 29 Jan 95 00:10:59 EST Resent-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:10:48 -0700 Old-Return-Path: Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:10:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199501290510.WAA15805@news.primenet.com> X-Sender: clydep@mailhost.primenet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: balloon@cvs.rochester.edu From: clydep@PrimeNet.Com (Clyde & Arlene Powers) Subject: Balloons on Internet Resent-Message-Id: <"mezyt.0.6f4.XDoAl"@swift.cvs.rochester.edu> Resent-From: balloon@cvs.rochester.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/42 X-Loop: balloon@cvs.rochester.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: balloon-request@cvs.rochester.edu Hi! My name is Arlene, better known as Arleenie Beenie. I have been ballooning five years as a clown, and one year as a balloonologist. A balloonologist is a name for someone working for tips in restaurants who is using a very long word to impress the customer ( possible tipper). I was thrilled to run into your contribution to the net. I have searched clowning and been unable to find results, so I tried juggling and stumbled on to your posting. What a great job you are doing. In the last few years, balloons have come a long way. I have used pumps most of my ballooning career, but have learned to blow over the last year. As I am asthmatic, maybe the hints I learned from Marvin Hardy and Mike Decker will help some of you. We have a tendancy to stretch the balloon long ways, which is taking a cylinder and lengthening it. Try strectching sideways about one inch below the nozzle. Blow up about one inch of the balloon 3 to six times a day for several days. Then progress to two inches until you feel like you can go further.If you are asthmatic as I am, progress may be slow, but eventually you can blow up a full balloon, then increase the number of balloons per day until you reach your goal. I still have some days that I am unable to blow, so when customers comment on my pump, I say it is for asthmatic balloonologists. When customers see my balloons, they no longer seem to consider the pump cheating anyway. The books I highly recommend ( available from T. Meyers) are Cartoon Balloon #1,2,&3 by Capt. Visual. Awesome Balloons By Flash, by Ken Stillman. These are not for mass ballooning. They are GREAT for the birthday child, or for restaurant work - they are major tip getters. These books have the little mermaid, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Roger Rabbit, Pluto, Opus, The Blue Genie, etc. Once you learn these forms you can take off on your own and create the coyote, roadrunner, awesome reindeer, Odie, Clifford, etc. Or you can put Bart on your five balloon motorcycle - get the picture. One of my favorite balloons is the Energizer Bunny.This was submitted to Laughmaker Magazine by Paula Large, Lyle Balcom & Jerry Darkey. It uses one 6" geo and one pink 260 and one blue 260. Inflate geo and tie off. Inflate pink 260, leaving one inch tail, and deflate two thirds, thread through geo and re-inflate, and tie off. This leaves you with a pink 260 through the geo. Make simple bunny head at knot end, wrap front feet around geo, and make body, hind feet,and tail at other end. Draw sunglasses on head using knot for nose. For the kicker inflate two inches of blue 260. Squeeze half of the air to the tail of the balloon, tie two knots in the middle of the balloon and tear or cut baloon in half, between the two knots. Tuck each "drumstick" into the place where the hands go through the geo. Later Tater!!!