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To: fooman
**I hope this does not go over like a led balloon.

Yeah, that would be series.

20 posted on 11/20/2015 2:23:36 PM PST by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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To: Gamecock

One account of how the new band’s name was chosen held that Moon and Entwistle had suggested that a supergroup with Page and Beck would go down like a “lead balloon”, an idiom for disastrous results.[21] The group dropped the ‘a’ in lead at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant, so that those unfamiliar with the term would not pronounce it “leed”.[22] The word “balloon” was replaced by “zeppelin”, a word which, according to music journalist Keith Shadwick, brought “the perfect combination of heavy and light, combustibility and grace” to Page’s mind.[21]


41 posted on 11/20/2015 3:27:15 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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