I always liked those European Ladies..
Posted on 05/30/2025 1:10:53 PM PDT by MtnClimber
There’s a hundred billion of them.
Big whoop...
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You are a “Big whoop”.
There was text messaging with flip phones since 1989 (albeit much more difficult to type).
I’m hoping this is true. It’s a cool, positive story for once.
Maybe it went west south of Australia and Africa and then north in the Atlantic. But I don’t know if currents would enable that to happen.
I’m skeptical as well. That’s a new-looking bottle for having been floating around for eight years. Doesn’t look like it would have been easy to seal, either.
The bottle most likely got picked up in the ballast water of a ship in Hawaii and dumped into the water in Florida when the ship put in a port call. Neither the glass nor the paper look like they've been exposed to 8 years of sunlight so it's likely been sitting in the ship's ballast tank the whole time.
From Wikipedia:"Cruise ships, large tankers, and bulk cargo carriers use a tremendous amount of ballast water, which is often taken on in the coastal waters in one region after ships discharge wastewater or unload cargo, and discharged at the next port of call, wherever more cargo is loaded."
“Wes text messaging that common 8 years ago?”
By the year 2000, the average user sent 35 text messages a day. That was 25 years ago.
Texting exploded in 2007 with the advent of the iPhone. That was 18 years ago.
So, yes, old timer, texting was common 8 years ago. Don’t forget to take your pills.
Yeah, sure!
Also, Joe Biden and Knees Haris both have IQs over 160...
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore.
The note in the bottle said nothing about texting, just the number.
Being able to keep your phone number through many different phones over the years, the writer of the not may or may not have known about texting at the time of writing the note, and the phone may or may not have been capable of it.
Now it and they are, obviously.
100 billion bottles of beer on the wall,
100 billion bottles of beer.
Take one down, pass it around,
99,999,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall.
99,999,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall...
To think that it landed in a Gulf Coast beach no less.
What a nice story in the midst of these troublesome days.
I’d be more impressed if the bottle was found on Mt Ararat.
I’m guessing it did go thru the canal...otherwise it would be closer to 14k and longer than 8 years.
Color me skeptical as hell ... Hawaii to Bradenton Beach, FL ... didn’t happen.
No marine growth. Total BS.
Did the note say 86 47?
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