From balloon-request@cvs.rochester.edu  Wed Feb 21 19:24:15 1996
	id AA28360; Wed, 21 Feb 96 19:20:44 EST
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:20:30 -0500
From: MikeCUt@aol.com
Message-Id: <960221192029_329138677@emout05.mail.aol.com>
To: sbeavers@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Cc: balloon@cvs.rochester.edu
Subject: B-ball

Dear Adrienne and others,

It was not your twisting that was frustrating, it is my explanation.  "Sort
of like a four petal flower" is misleading if not downright wrong.  Maybe if
I wrote as I twist instead of as I think, the instructions would be better.

Here goes a second try.

  Inflate (green) 260 & tie
  Tie the ends together.
  Twist the balloon at the side of the circle opposite the nipple/knot end.
 You now have a pair of giant lips (which, by the way, offer fun play with a
little vent work or just silliness.)
  Twist the "lips" in half.  Now you have a pair of giant eyeglasses / bow
tie / wings / etc.
  Bring one end at right angle to the other end and lock the balloon together
by rolling one side of the balloon around another side.  You now have a
balloon that looks like a football.
   [If you squash the football and twist, you end up with four petals (hence
the "*sort of* like a four petal flower , sigh ;-) ]

  Repeat with another balloon (yellow)

  Align the two footballs "ends to ends" (what I called superimposed) and
push two sections of the green football through the yellow football.
  Roll the sides until you have an alternating pattern of yellow green yellow
green etc..  You now have a "geoball." 
  Place a 11 inch round inside the geoball and inflate.  The round balloon
adds color, shape and bounce.  I inflate just enough to add shape to the ball
but not enough to bulge the round out of the sides.

Hope that is better.  I'd be interested in some of the creations you designed
as you tried to do it a different way.

Magic Mike