There were 99 of them.
Eventually
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99 bottles of beer on the wall....
I see what you did there! LOL
Lots and lots of secret Chinese balloons....
There was a Get Smart episode where a consulting detective told Smart a leftover cigarette had lipstick so at least one woman had been at the scene. Then “but this second cigarette butt without it means either a man or a woman who didn’t wear makeup was present. But non-smokers, even several of them could have been here, too.”
Smart: So actually this crime scene room could have been filled to overflowing with people.
Those were the German spy luftballons.
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we’ve got
Set them free at the break of dawn
‘Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, sparks in the software
Flash the message “Something’s out there”
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by
99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it’s red alert
There’s something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
The 99 red balloons go by
99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we’ve waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by
99 knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone’s a superhero
Everyone’s a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scrambling the summer sky
99 red balloons go by
As 99 red balloons go by
99 dreams I have had
In every one, a red balloon
It’s all over, and I’m standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you, and let it go
There were 99 of them.
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I see what you did here ;-)
Wait, I forgot The Trouble With Tribbles was just referenced on one of the other Star Trek spinoffs last week.
How many balloons? “You mean multiplied by a factor of 6 per hour?”
And they were red!
Red?
Yep..99 Luft Balloons
They’re lying.