[Red Badger]

[JRandomFreeper]

Captain Brown's original log, now held by Marine Scotland Science in Aberdeen, is still updated each time a bottle is tracked down.

Well, of course, what else could they do?

/johnny

[FoxInSocks]

Sadly, anyone sending out a message in a bottle nowadays would probably be fined and imprisoned for 30 days.

[brivette]

98 bottles of beer on the wall..

[Rastus]

1890 drift bottles on the seabed
1890 on the seabed
If one of those bottles should happen to rise
1879 drift bottles on the seabed

[x]

He later learned that the message in bottle had been adrift for 97 years and 309 days.

Must have been the one Sting wrote.

[Chainmail]

A great story, but my favorite message in a bottle story is when Private Thomas Hughes’ letter in a bottle was found a few years ago. He was on his way to fight in France in 1914 and wrote a letter to his wife and daughter and tossed it into the Thames. He was killed in action two days later and his letter wasn’t found until 85 lears later. The amazing part is that Pvt Hughes’ daughter was still alive and the fisherman who found the letter delivered it to her - in New Zealand! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/346879.stm

[Chainmail]

A great story, but my favorite message in a bottle story is when Private Thomas Hughes’ letter in a bottle was found a few years ago. He was on his way to fight in France in 1914 and wrote a letter to his wife and daughter and tossed it into the Thames. He was killed in action two days later and his letter wasn’t found until 85 lears later. The amazing part is that Pvt Hughes’ daughter was still alive and the fisherman who found the letter delivered it to her - in New Zealand! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/346879.stm

[maddog55]

Actual Time Capsule Bottle:

[Beowulf9]

Interesting story. So, does he get to collect the sixpence?

[central_va]

Now I have this stupid song in my head...

[Focault's Pendulum]

The water-tight glass bottle was released on June 10, 1914

The Rolling Stones were playing a gig in Scotland that day.

[Ditter]

If I had found it I would probably keep it, the heck with 6 pence!

[JediJones]

Wonder if Obama stashed his birth certificate in one of these to keep it away from prying eyes until next century.

[lwd]

Captain Brown's original log, now held by Marine Scotland Science in Aberdeen, is still updated each time a bottle is tracked down.

And here all this time I've been told it was in the toilet of the Starship Enterprise.

[Rebelbase]

My son and I set one adrift off NC in 2003. No reply yet...

[blueunicorn6]

I’ve been here in Charlotte all week. I brought along a couple of boxes of cheapo brass lamps. The ones that look like Aladin’s lamp. I’ve been dropping them all over the convention. Inside the lamps is a note that reads
“I am the genie of the lamp! Stick the spout of this lamp up your ass, and I will give you three wishes!”
Well, I put superglue on the spout. You ought to see the hospital emergency room.
“Wait! Don’t pull it out yet! I want to sleep with Bill Clinton!”

[DogByte6RER]

Oh ... this should definitely be a glyph.

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