A year? So many memes, spectacles, and media circuses have cropped up in the interim, I would have believed it if you said it was the Fifth Balloon Boy Anniversary. It's reassuring that sometimes time, unlike an unmanned mylar balloon, does not fly.
I am still vexed by missing Balloon Boy in real time almost entirely due to the single vacation I took last year, my first in five years (more or less), and but a mere three and a half days. Vexed vexed vexed. To this day!
I remember this post very vividly.
217 comments? On a post that's not about dicks, fingerblasting, or puns? Incredible.
It was like a group liveblog!
How has no one made the "they like [X], generally" 'joke' yet?
Nic's not awake yet.
West Coast Media Sleep-Lates
I forgot how hard that day was on mathnet. You really stuck with that story!
Oh, the movie never ends! It goes on and on and on and ohowonnn.
A year? So many memes, spectacles, and media circuses have cropped up in the interim, I would have believed it if you said it was the Fifth Balloon Boy Anniversary. It's reassuring that sometimes time, unlike an unmanned mylar balloon, does not fly.
I know, right? It feels like twenty years ago.
Balloon Boy's now dating Baby Jessica, right?
I'm still smarting from the Brooklyn Tornado Hoax. Damn kids and their wind machine.
Bet the Chilean Mine had no one in it, either.
I am still vexed by missing Balloon Boy in real time almost entirely due to the single vacation I took last year, my first in five years (more or less), and but a mere three and a half days. Vexed vexed vexed. To this day!
Spoiler: It turns out the kid wasn't in the balloon.
You just don't understand me at aaaall!