# The Horror of Blimps, revisited

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps-revisited/594704>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps-revisited/594704 "2011-08-31T00:45:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps-revisited/594704/1 "2011-08-31T00:45:11Z")

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Paging **Scylla** …

[The nightmare continues.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJINiK9azc)

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**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps-revisited/594704/2 "2011-08-31T00:49:29Z")

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The company that makes those deserves every penny of profit and then some!

Thanks, **VunderBob**!

Bri2k

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps-revisited/594704/3 "2011-08-31T01:44:57Z")

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The Horror of Blimps, [in the original](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=2943767#post2943767). For all you Doper n00bs.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps-revisited/594704/4 "2011-08-31T02:12:12Z")

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Had to laugh at the cat at the end 😛

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**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps-revisited/594704/5 "2011-08-31T02:40:48Z")

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I so want one of those. I don’t know what I’d do with it, exactly, or where I’d fly it… but damn, I want one.

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**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps-revisited/594704/6 "2011-08-31T04:44:58Z")

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Is it so wrong that I want some of these, despite purporting to be an adult? Do you suppose they would kick me out of the pool for buzzing the water with an RC shark?