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[UPDATE] Dana's blog, 15 September

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:50 am

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Nightmare Tony

There was this old french movie about a little boy and his red baloon. Maybe Dana was scared of being up, uop and away, flying out of control?
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0048980/
(ok, so how many of you remember htis movie in school as a kid?)

there is also mention from The 6th Sense as well.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:17 am

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ROBOGriff

could someone please post Dana's message for those of us at work.
Pretty please.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:44 am

sherpa

Sure. It's on the Fireflies wiki over here

or here:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:46 am

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Wes · Kilroy Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

The main character, Perdita, in the Sleeping Princess' story has a red balloon. I even believe the story says she loves red balloons.

- Wes

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:47 am

HitsHerMark

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:13 am

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krystyn

I have the book.

We used to watch the movie when inclement weather would keep us indoors during recesses and lunches in grade school. We also watched Free to be You and Me. Smile

Cirque du Soleil's Quidam show had elements of The Red Balloon in it.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:21 am

Karmic

When I see 'Red Balloon' the first thing that I think of is the song, 99 Red Balloons.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/goldfinger/99redballoons.html

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:34 am

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sherpa

I was going to say "What's this got to do with the price of fish?" but, thinking about it, Dana's blog could be hinting to us that the girl with her red balloons is more important than we had thought, and telling us to look again at that allegory.

I'm not convinced on this as Dana's blog has rarely told us anything new, merely confirmed what we knew... her role in-game is quite a strange one, isn't it! (Community Liaison, it would be called elsewhere.)

Anyway, red balloons - as already said elsewhere, I believe - suggest Winnie the Pooh to me Smile

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:38 am

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HitsHerMark

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:44 am

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sherpa

I don't think there is a connection beyond the use of an obviously fairly striking motif. It seems that red balloons crop up a lot. Not sure how much we can draw from such a common theme, yet...

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:53 am

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Atrophied

[OT]
99 Red Balloons by Nena (heh, not relevant, but it goes to show that all things balloon related are not in-game in some way)

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:00 pm

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perhaps I am looking too deeply

Nightmare Tony

The wierdest thing was with me and a friend going to see our favorite local OC band in rehearsal, Mollystongue, and them doing this wierd version in a Hitler accent (the other version is a Willy Wonka accent). It just kept getting funnier every second, we both ended up on the floor laughing mucho...

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:27 pm

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CoffeeJedi

congratulations fireflies! you've been linked in-game by Dana! alright!

**Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2004 3:07 pm

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