From: vintageapplemac@gmail.com   
      
   In article <10n1ude$bou$1@panix2.panix.com>, kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   > scole  wrote:   
   > >In article <10ml8tl$1nb3i$1@dont-email.me>, quadi   
    wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> This news item reminded me of the famous German song about how a young   
   > >> couple's release of ninety-nine helium balloons to celebrate their love   
   > >> accidentally triggered a global thermonuclear war.   
   > >   
   > >Holy shit! I've listened to that song many times (both German and English   
   > >versions, although I don't barely understand any German at all the   
   > >original language version does have more of a bop to it!) and clearly have   
   > >never listened to it remotely hard enough to pick up on that - I've always   
   > >just thought it was a lovely bouncy party song!   
   >   
   > In the English version we have the young couple releasing balloons that sets   
   > off the alarm.   
   >   
   > In the German version it's not clear where the balloons came from, and the   
   > word "luftballoon" would indicate a military balloon and not a party balloon   
   > according to my German roomate-at-the-time-that-song-came-out.  The German   
   > lyrics are very much more dark than the English ones.   
   >   
      
   Right, I'm going to hit Google up for some translated lyrics - I need to   
   get to the bottom of this, it sounds absolutely fascinating and,   
   understandably given Germany's mid-80s Cold War status, dark as pitch!   
   Still an absolute banger of a song, though!   
      
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