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    How is Kent Couch’s ballast related to a 1954 Marvin Potts creation?

    Question #97588. Asked by BRY2K. (Jul 16 08 5:10 AM)


    stedman

    		Kool-Aid is the connection.

    Kent Couch, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho. He used 15-gallon barrels of Kool-Aid for ballast.
    http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:C0Kh6AOevIsJ:www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/05/lawnchair.balloons.ap/+%22Kent+Couch%22+ballast&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=uk

    And Kool-Aid Man (the mascot for Kool-Aid) was created in 1954 by Marvin Plotts, (as “The Pitcher Man”):

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid_Man


    Jul 16 08, 5:22 AM

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