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Old 04-22-08, 10:56 AM   #1
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Default Brazil priest carried aloft by balloons missing
What are some people thinking? :hmm:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24244282/

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SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons was missing Monday off the southern coast of Brazil....
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Old 04-22-08, 11:12 AM   #2
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What are some people thinking?
Precisely. A spiritual rest stop for truckers?
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Old 04-22-08, 11:17 AM   #3
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Maybe The Bermuda Triangle is expanding. :p
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Old 04-22-08, 09:34 PM   #4
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Does anyone have a slingshot and shotgun???:hmm:
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Old 04-23-08, 05:03 AM   #5
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Does anyone have a slingshot and shotgun???:hmm:
Pull! (or perhaps this should go in the squirrell 'trebuchet' thread)
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Old 04-23-08, 08:23 AM   #6
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Of all the stuff he had with him he should have included an aqualung for good measure :p
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Old 04-23-08, 11:08 AM   #7
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He must have been watching the movie, "Danny Deckchair", when he got the idea:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337960/

He just forgot about prevailing winds. The movie is quite funny and a nice little romance.
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No sign of the guy yet?
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No sign of the guy yet?
Apparently, he's taking up his new parish...in Davy Jone's Locker.
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No sign of the guy yet?
Apparently, he's taking up his new parish...in Davy Jone's Locker.

Another spiritual rest stop. So, perhaps he did fulfil his dream after all.
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No sign of the guy yet?
Apparently, he's taking up his new parish...in Davy Jone's Locker.
Another spiritual rest stop. So, perhaps he did fulfil his dream after all.
Part of me wants to laugh, the other part is disgusted with the idea of laughing about a persons death.
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