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Oh, my gosh! Who needs ab workout exercise routines, when one can read THIS story instead! It’s a wonder I didn’t wake the entire neighborhood, I was laughing so hard.
To help keep track of where this story is going, I found it on the USENET newsgroup rec.pets.cats.anecdotes yesterday. The link to this thread was posted. I have subsequently emailed this link to several friends, as well as posting it on a hockey message board on delphiforums.com.
Thank you for THE biggest laugh I’ve had in I-don’t-know-how-long. I needed that!
P.S. I registered on SDMB specifically so I could post a response here.
Oh my gawd, I know that feeling! Of course, it’s usually after Mr. Pundit has made a pit stop at White Castles…
But you know, the funniest part of the story is that Scylla merely grazed the evil blimp while Mrs. Scylla put the thing out of commission. Mrs. Scylla: Blimp Slayer.
this was posted on a msg board i frequent – and it came from another msg board – and they got it from here 
(just to give you an idea of how far this story is getting)
i read it this morning – i had tears rolling down my face and my gut hurt from laughing so hard
i read it again a few hours later – tears rolling down my face and my cheeks hurt from laughing so much
at current, my wife is off to my side reading a printout of it (ive gotta share this with others)… she’s not easily impressed – so the fact that she’s laughing at all says a lot 
btw incubus… my gut is hurting from reading your story…
wife just got done reading the printout – and she chuckled while asking “hamsters eat their babies?”
lmao… good stuff – i may have to stick around
ROT,
I’m curious. On what other message boards have you seen The horror of blimps?
the board i frequent said they saw it on a “Gentoo” forum… whatever that is.
What an awe inspiring post!!
That was the funniest thing I had read in my life! My husband just about thought I was being attacked I was laughing so hard. And he about had a heart attack when he read it. It is something my husband would definetly do… Well I would too… great story!
When we were kids my brother and I had bunk beds and I had the lower bunk. With the right beds and a big blanket you can make a cool hammock for a kid by tying it from the under-bed supports, so I did this a lot. One of the other things I did was sneak out of my room and peek around the corner of the livingroom and watch TV where my parents couldn’t see me. About that time the commercial for ‘It’s Alive’ were on.
The above is all set up for the real story…one night I was sleeping in the hammock, woke up and snuck out to see what my parents were watching. The ‘It’s Alive’ commercial came on TV and it freaked me out, so I went back to the bedroom…only to find a large lump in my hammock and the hammock swaying slightly back and forth. I was scared so I hit it, which caused it to swing away, then back at me…which of course nearly made me pee myself in fear. I screamed blue murder, bringing my parents running, only to show that the vile creature which attacked me from my homemade hammock was my pillow.
This made me laugh like a hyena. When I stopped, I shared it with an online group. One of them wrote me saying she’d kill for one of those blimps. So today I walked down to Zany Brainy, located conveniently in the mall where I work. Looked around a bit and there they were – a PILE of blimps. $15, marked down from $39.99. Cool. I decided I’d get one for a nephew and ask my online friend if she was serious. Get up to the counter… friends, I kid you not - they were forty per cent OFF. So yes - $9 something. I marched myself right back there and got a second one. They had quite a few, so feel free to go out and intimidate your friends and family.
I read this on thatscomedy.com (I’m on their joke list) At the time they didn’t know who the original author was, maybe you could drop’em a line and let them know if your intrested.
Its kinda cool really; Its a small internet world!
It’s making the rounds of the Everquest boards now (FYI: Everquest is an online fantasy/adventure game. There are tons and tons of message boards dedicated to it). Been on at least 2 of the ones I frequent. It’s very weird to go there and see stuff from the SDMB!
Someone posted it on my messageboards too. Damn if I can find it now though…
It must be making the rounds, because it ended up a pretty obscure message board for an almost unknown Canadian band, and the poster there got it in e-mail. I lost all control while reading it. I was howling at my computer screen, and for that, I must thank you Scylla. I’ve needed to laugh like that for a while.
Add me to the list of ppl who had to register here as a result of following a link from other boards! I saw this one on mouseplanet.com’s boards… there’s an entire thread over there dedicated to this thread!
Well, I see this thing is showing up again, so I’m going to give another report on the number of hits. I’m anal about numbers, so sue me.
In the last 12 days and 1.3 hours there have been 19053 hits. The rate is slowing down, but that’s still a little over 1 hit per minute.
Anyone know if Zany Brainy knows about this yet?
If they do, they should give Scylla money. I keep coming across folks saying “Cool! I’m going to go buy one!”
I have to admit having had similar occurances in our house from Birthday Balloons. They move, almost with intelligence, and we used to keep our bedroom doors open, so we’d wake in the middle of the night to find them hovering above us, ready to suck the breath from our sleeping mouths.
Our silver mylar balloons, however, were not the size nor evilness of your blimp.
We now keep our bedroom doors closed at night (not 'cause of that, 'cause the firemen at the PTA fire safety program told us it was safer for us and our children), and only have to deal with the watching, waiting balloons outside the bathroom unexpectedly.
Also, there’s nothing like watching one of them bumping it’s way up the stairs as you’re sitting up alone at night reading in the living room (our living room is upstairs). It’s incredibly eerie.