Talk:Water balloon

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I am grateful to those that were interested in keeping this topic. It does have the opportunity to be expanded greatly.Scott Boise (talk) 18:14, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

What about ballons half-filled with water and the other half with air? Those have the special attribute of being difficult to burst, which can lead to some un-harming pranks. 186.105.102.126 (talk) 17:06, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

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I have been attempting to verify the history section with reliable sources and have come up blank. There is one Time article cited, but that's just a couple of sentences without any sources, and does not seem particularly trustworthy. There are a few sites online claiming similar information, but they all seem to cite this Wikipedia article. It may all be an urban legend. It is reproduced here:

The first commercially marketed water balloon was produced by Edgar Ellington in 1950, while trying to invent a waterproof sock that would prevent trench foot. The design for the sock was a latex coating over a normal cotton sock. When the invention was up to his standards for testing he tried wearing the sock but then quickly found out the elasticity of the latex made it difficult to put on. After ripping several pairs of his waterproof sock he finally managed to successfully put the sock on by carefully heating the sock with an indirect heat source. He was thrilled with his success and had taken off the sock and filled it with water and tied the top to make sure that he had not accidentally ripped the sock unknowingly. When he did this he saw a small stream of water spurt out of the balloon. Disheartened by his failure, he threw the balloon down and let it break over his table in his study. The satisfaction that he produced when doing so made him come up with the idea of a water balloon to which he would market to children. At first he marketed it as a water grenade, because his introductory idea was to aid soldiers in war, but later changed the name to water balloons to make the activity more child friendly.

We can add it in if we can find any reputable sources, but this has been marked with {{citation needed}} for 6 years. —METS501 (talk) 19:59, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Just saw this on the talk page after I partially reverted your edit specifically because of the Time article. I figured they should qualify as a valid source, although I did only restore the content that was specifically mentioned in Time. I barely edit anything on this site anymore though, so if you think it's better just to get rid of it, then go for it. I only found my way here from a TIL on Reddit. DB (talk) 20:45, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi DB. I just reverted your edit again. I have serious doubts as to the accuracy of this story. It was in the Time article only after it was added to Wikipedia, uncited, and the Time article was just a fun "top 100" thing. I think it's highly likely that the time article got the information from Wikipedia. —METS501 (talk) 02:03, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

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