Comments for Trial Balloon http://web.njit.edu/~elliot/blog Norbert Elliot's Blog on Instruction and Assessment in the Humanities Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:10:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 Comment on The Idea of a Trial Balloon by Norbert Elliot http://web.njit.edu/~elliot/blog/?p=21#comment-48 Norbert Elliot Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:18:11 +0000 http://web.njit.edu/~elliot/blog/?p=21#comment-48 Thanks for the warning about the pitchforks. It ain't the peasants I am worried about, though. The suburban Marxists will get us every time. Thanks for the warning about the pitchforks. It ain’t the peasants I am worried about, though. The suburban Marxists will get us every time.

]]> Comment on The Idea of a Trial Balloon by Ken Ronkowitz http://web.njit.edu/~elliot/blog/?p=21#comment-47 Ken Ronkowitz Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:04:57 +0000 http://web.njit.edu/~elliot/blog/?p=21#comment-47 Joseph and Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier tried unmanned trial balloons first. The first successful one on August 27, 1783 flew 12 miles, but - more importantly to your blog launch - it was attacked by peasant farmers when it landed because they didn't understand what it could possibly be. Good luck up there. Beware of peasants with pitchforks. Joseph and Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier tried unmanned trial balloons first. The first successful one on August 27, 1783 flew 12 miles, but - more importantly to your blog launch - it was attacked by peasant farmers when it landed because they didn’t understand what it could possibly be.

Good luck up there. Beware of peasants with pitchforks.

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