Caption Palin (they filled her office with blue balloons)

[Kadie]

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin looks around her office filled with balloons and welcome home banners after she arrived at her office in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday Nov. 7, 2008, for the first time since she began campaigning as Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate.
(AP Photo/Al Grillo)

[Sanity Claws]

1. Blue, not red?

Were they trying to rub in her loss?

[TomInTib]

2. I guess they have a helium shortage in AK.

Or maybe helium just doesn't work when Palin sucks all the air out of the room.

[Ian David]

3. BLUE! They even turned MY OFFICE BLUE! n/t

[Ian David]

4. ...

"Joe The Blue Balloon... Joe The Chair... Joe The Little Man on a Horse..."

[BronxBoy]

6. All I can think of....

is palinaspresident.

Sans all the cool stuff......

Just some wimpy balloons... :rofl:

[johnnie]

5. Man..it's FILLED

How the hell is she walking around in there?

[BronxBoy]

8. LOL n/t

[lob1]

7. They're lead balloons. As in, "She went over like a lead balloon."

[RJ Connors]

10. Zepplin fan, huh? n/t

[lob1]

14. Yes I am. But they took their name from that old expression, the expression

didn't come from Zepplin's name. I'm so old, I knew the expression before the band even formed.

[RJ Connors]

19. Well I had allways heard, ever since the band formed

That the name came from a couple of guys in the Rolling Stones who were in a bar, during the early years, talking with some other people about Jimmy Pages new band. The comment was made that they would probably go over like a lead balloon, like a Led Zeppelin.

The story then goes that somehow that got back to Page or Plant and it was kind of an insult that they decided they would run with for whatever reason. I have read and heard that story many times since the 60's. But then again, you know how rock legends can be.

[lob1]

20. Yeah, that's basically the story I heard. But something "went over like a

lead balloon" was already a cliche by then. That's all I'm saying.

[RJ Connors]

22. Oh yeah, that wouldn't surprise me

In fact now that you mention it that part comes back. :yourock: :yourock:

[Elidor]

24. Two members of the Who, not the Stones

Page was looking for a band to join, and Entwhistle and Moon were fed up with Townshend and Daltrey and wanted to start a new band. They talked about getting Steve Marriot to sing, but his manager was mobbed up and threatened to break some fingers if anyone approached his act. Moon came up with the name. At least, that's the version presented in the book Hammer of the Gods.

[RJ Connors]

9. Hmmm, kind of tells you what they think of her.

But you can rest assured, people will loose their jobs over this. Not necessarily the people who did it. But the people who are already on Sarah's shit list.

[madaboutharry]

11. Anchorage?

Isn't her office in Juneau?

[central scrutinizer]

12. this balloon would have been more appropriate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA

[1Hippiechick]

13. TO LOL or not to LOL - the disaster was not funny, but she IS a disaster!

[1Hippiechick]

15. Those aren't balloons! They're the frozen CROCODILE TEARS that Palin cried!

[Bluebear]

16. "Filled" with balloons? hahahaha

[Raschel]

17. Wow. Looks like they went all out. for her.....what an effort.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

18. A balloon for every egg she layed.

In any given week :rofl:

[foxfeet]

21. "Look at all the blue balls!"

[arthritisR_US]

23. who's side are they on anyway? n/t

[loyalkydem]

25. my favorite

They don't love me anymore