Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:46:20 -0500
To: balloon@balloonhq.com
From: Balloon Man <balloons@charter.net>
Subject: what are balloons made of

	I have a set of jokes that parallels the "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" 
show.  I ask where do we get the material to make Balloons?  Do we dig it 
out of the ground? - Make it out of chemicals in a factory?  Grow it on 
trees?    Well most people go for the chemical answer.  And a few actually 
remember the rubber tree.

	But at a recent conference someone commented that balloons are no longer 
made out latex (due he said to the allergies people have to it) and instead 
are made of some latex, but mostly plastics (I suppose petro-chemicals).

	Someone on this list must know the "truth".

David Olson