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Bucky

(54,084 posts) Tue May 7, 2013, 10:05 PM May 2013

Please, at your next birthday party, use helium balloons

...and not those cheaper hydrogen balloons. Trust me, it's just not worth it

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Please, at your next birthday party, use helium balloons (Original Post) Bucky May 2013 OP

I'll pass along the request. In_The_Wind May 2013 #1

Too soon. Wait for the 100th anniversary. 2037. Bertha Venation May 2013 #2

!!! MiddleFingerMom May 2013 #3

Bet that was the last time Bucky Jr. asked you for a pinata... petronius May 2013 #4

I done TOLD that kid to quit smoking, but it was his birthday and I'm an old softie Bucky May 2013 #5

I thought that was a Viagra Ad...... Burma Jones May 2013 #6

He SAID he was an old softie. Stop rubbing it. MiddleFingerMom May 2013 #7

Helium is not so easy to come by these days Tuesday Afternoon May 2013 #8

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

1. I'll pass along the request.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Tue May 7, 2013, 11:11 PM

May 2013

Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)

2. Too soon. Wait for the 100th anniversary. 2037.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2013, 12:19 AM

May 2013

j/k

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

3. !!!

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2013, 12:39 AM

May 2013

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Oh the humanity birthday to you!
Oh the humanity birthday to you!
Oh the humanity birthday, dear Bucky!
Oh the humanity birthday to you!
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petronius

(26,604 posts)

4. Bet that was the last time Bucky Jr. asked you for a pinata...

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2013, 12:44 AM

May 2013

Bucky

(54,084 posts)

5. I done TOLD that kid to quit smoking, but it was his birthday and I'm an old softie

Reply to petronius (Reply #4)

Wed May 8, 2013, 09:32 AM

May 2013

Burma Jones

(11,760 posts)

6. I thought that was a Viagra Ad......

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2013, 09:35 AM

May 2013

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

7. He SAID he was an old softie. Stop rubbing it.

Reply to Burma Jones (Reply #6)

Wed May 8, 2013, 10:36 AM

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Stop rubbing it in.
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Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

8. Helium is not so easy to come by these days

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2013, 07:08 PM

May 2013

The Senate is considering legislation to prevent a global helium shortage from worsening in October. That's when one huge supply of helium in the U.S. is set to terminate. The House overwhelmingly passed its own bill last month to keep the Federal Helium Program going.

That was a relief to industries that can't get along without helium. The gas is used in MRI machines, semiconductors, aerospace equipment, lasers and of course balloons.

Perhaps the easiest way to understand the helium shortage is to talk to people like Stacie Lee Banks, who owns a flower shop in Washington, D.C. She is one of the go-to people in the city for filling large orders of party balloons.

Banks says she started noticing a problem about half a year ago. Her supplier used to send her two tanks of helium every time she was running short. Now he only sends one tank — if that. When she called him recently, he said he was completely out.

more at link:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/05/08/181996604/congress-considers-how-to-deflate-nations-helium-reserve?ft=1&f=3

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