<story><title>The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of 1986 [video]</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/562556/cleveland-balloonfest/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mnctvanj</author><text>The thing that strikes me is how deep the pathos about Cleveland runs as the newscasters hype the event (&amp;quot;Cleveland is no longer the mistake by the lake!&amp;quot; as the balloons fly). And that everyone seemed so entirely sure that dumping a million balloons into the sky would somehow make everyone stop laughing at the city. And then of course they all landed in the lake anyway.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of 1986 [video]</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/562556/cleveland-balloonfest/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>&amp;quot;As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.&amp;quot;
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