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Chinese nut-picker survives 200-mile journey in escaped hydrogen balloon
Guardian ^ | 9-8-22

Posted on 09/08/2022 7:46:32 AM PDT by Round Earther

A man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon that became untethered while he was using it to harvest pine nuts from a tree, according to Chinese state media.

The man, identified only by his surname, Hu, and a partner were collecting pine nuts on Sunday in a forest park in Heilongjiang province in north-east China when they lost control and the balloon sailed off on a 200-mile journey.

An official who gave only his surname, Fu, at the publicity department of the Hailin Forestry Administration Co on Thursday confirmed the balloon incident and described Hu as being in his 40s. He said Hu was recovering in a hospital but declined to give further details.

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Hu escaped in the balloon?

When asked for further details about Hu, Fu said Fu Hu.

1 posted on 09/08/2022 7:46:32 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther

Fu said what about Hu? Hu is Fu anyway?


2 posted on 09/08/2022 7:55:14 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

Hu’s on first?


3 posted on 09/08/2022 7:56:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Round Earther

Such a lot of Hu-Hu in this story. Sounds like Fu got stuck with it!


4 posted on 09/08/2022 7:56:28 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, and What’s on second and I don’t Know is on third, but where the freak is Fu?


5 posted on 09/08/2022 7:58:04 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Round Earther

Lou Costello: Look, you gotta nut picker?

Bud Abbott: Certainly.

Lou Costello: Hu’s picking nuts?

Bud Abbott: That’s right.

Lou Costello: When you pay off the nut picker every month, who gets the money?

Bud Abbott: Every dollar of it.

Lou Costello: All I’m trying to find out is the fellow’s name picking nuts.

Bud Abbott: Hu.

Lou Costello: The guy that gets…

Bud Abbott: That’s it.

Lou Costello: Hu gets the money…

Bud Abbott: He does, every dollar. Sometimes his wife comes down and collects it.

Lou Costello: Hu’s wife?

Bud Abbott: Yes.

PAUSE
Bud Abbott: What’s wrong with that?

Lou Costello: Look, all I wanna know is when you sign up the nut pucker, how does he sign his name?

Bud Abbott: Hu.

Lou Costello: The guy.

Bud Abbott: Hu.

Lou Costello: How does he sign…

Bud Abbott: That’s how he signs it.

Lou Costello: Hu?

Bud Abbott: Yes.


6 posted on 09/08/2022 7:58:36 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The government sees you as either livestock or pet. If things get bad they will eat their pets too.)
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Hu's actually on first


7 posted on 09/08/2022 8:01:35 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Round Earther
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
8 posted on 09/08/2022 8:02:06 AM PDT by Flag_This
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To: KarlInOhio

Ah, you win the thread.


9 posted on 09/08/2022 8:03:18 AM PDT by golux
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To: Round Earther
Hu Flu?

Hu Flew?

Very confHused.

10 posted on 09/08/2022 8:04:24 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: KarlInOhio

We need to tap that energy and creativity in congress. Just another bunch of nuts.


11 posted on 09/08/2022 8:10:10 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: KarlInOhio

My husband can watch that old routine repeatedly and it never gets old.


12 posted on 09/08/2022 8:12:30 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: KarlInOhio

BRAVO!!!


13 posted on 09/08/2022 8:12:42 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: Round Earther

Confucius say nutpicker in balloon get inflated ego.


14 posted on 09/08/2022 8:13:58 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (t)
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To: Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; carriage_hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; Squantos; ...

Pine Nut Ping


15 posted on 09/08/2022 8:15:52 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: Round Earther

Wu’s on First?


16 posted on 09/08/2022 8:22:06 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: bert

LOL!


17 posted on 09/08/2022 8:22:25 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: dfwgator

DAMN YOU! Heh, thought I was being clever...

I will say, that is a title you don’t read every day.


18 posted on 09/08/2022 8:22:41 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Round Earther

Hey Hu. We tu lo. Not


19 posted on 09/08/2022 8:25:43 AM PDT by 12chachacha (Bad illogical advice)
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Sounds like an escape. Disney had a movie out back in the 80s called Midnight crossing. 3 families who built s balloon an escaped east germany. True story


20 posted on 09/08/2022 8:33:24 AM PDT by princess leah
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