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Martian · 01-20-2006, 11:11 AM

Somebody got her message in a bottle...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/4627330.stm

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Originally Posted by The BBC

Bottle message drifts 9,000 miles

A message in a bottle thrown into the sea by a four-year-old as part of a nursery school project has been found 9,000 miles away in Western Australia.

Alesha Johnson threw the bottle into the water at Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, last July, enclosing a picture of herself and her Heysham address.

The note read: "If you get this message, please write back."

This week, she received a letter from a 10-year-old from Perth, who said he had found the bottle in a local boatyard.

'It's amazing'

Doreen Johnson, the manager of the nursery Alesha attends in Heysham, said: "We were all very excited when the letter from Australia arrived addressed to Alesha.

"We never dreamed the bottle would go that far, it's amazing."

The Australian boy, who said only that his name was Bob, wrote in his letter that he had asked his father to look up Heysham on the internet.

The child did not enclose an address as he said he was moving house, but would write back when he had his new address.

raeanna74 · 01-20-2006, 11:21 AM

That is cool. Makes me want to try something like that. A really fun way to find a penpal.

pan6467 · 01-20-2006, 11:45 AM

I wonder if I could do that to meet women.

RAGEAngel9 · 01-20-2006, 12:21 PM

Damn kids, ruining the environment!

But that is pretty cool.

Slippery Slope · 01-20-2006, 03:52 PM

Maybe they'll end up getting married to
each other in fifteen/twenty years time.
How cool would that be!

maleficent · 01-20-2006, 04:00 PM

that's amazing that the bottle made it that far-- without sinking or getting run over or something-- very cool... Well done kids!!!

I remember back when I was in grammar school - in the days before email - we put our school address on a balloon and released the balloons asking the person to write to us-- i think we got a response from three towns away... and we thought that was cool..

Hmm - interesting idea Pan...
/me scurries out to buy some bottles to empty and toss into the atlantic..

Siege · 01-20-2006, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by pan6467

I wonder if I could do that to meet women.

Are you sure they'd come 9000 miles to meet you?

Zeraph · 01-20-2006, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Siege

Are you sure they'd come 9000 miles to meet you?

No, what you do is put a message in a bottle on a beach , like it was washed up on shore, frequented by beautiful woman near where you live. Make the date on the letter about a year ago and write that you put the bottle out from some exotic place while traveling the world. Then put your real address. She'll think it such a coincidence that while traveling the world your bottle ended up back at your home state and that she found it that it must be destiny...

/evil laugh

Siege · 01-20-2006, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeraph

No, what you do is put a message in a bottle on a beach , like it was washed up on shore, frequented by beautiful woman near where you live. Make the date on the letter about a year ago and write that you put the bottle out from some exotic place while traveling the world. Then put your real address. She'll think it such a coincidence that while traveling the world your bottle ended up back at your home state and that she found it that it must be destiny...

/evil laugh

Not a bad plan at all

Excellent (ala Mr. Burns)

pan6467 · 01-20-2006, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeraph

No, what you do is put a message in a bottle on a beach , like it was washed up on shore, frequented by beautiful woman near where you live. Make the date on the letter about a year ago and write that you put the bottle out from some exotic place while traveling the world. Then put your real address. She'll think it such a coincidence that while traveling the world your bottle ended up back at your home state and that she found it that it must be destiny...

/evil laugh

Yeah but would that work on Lake Erie's shore?

ratbastid · 01-21-2006, 06:05 AM

I once threw a bottle into the North Fork of the Snake River about a mile upstream from Mack's Inn. About six months later, I got a call from somebody who found the bottle... about a mile upstream from Mack's Inn.

I figure the bottle made about two turns down the river and got picked up by somebody. So I'm not nearly as cool as this kid!

01-20-2006, 11:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
raeanna74 I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot! Location: Upper Michigan	That is cool. Makes me want to try something like that. A really fun way to find a penpal. __________________ "Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama My Karma just ran over your Dogma.

01-20-2006, 11:45 AM	#3 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	I wonder if I could do that to meet women. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

01-20-2006, 04:00 PM	#6 (permalink)
maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	that's amazing that the bottle made it that far-- without sinking or getting run over or something-- very cool... Well done kids!!! I remember back when I was in grammar school - in the days before email - we put our school address on a balloon and released the balloons asking the person to write to us-- i think we got a response from three towns away... and we thought that was cool.. Hmm - interesting idea Pan... /me scurries out to buy some bottles to empty and toss into the atlantic.. __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

01-20-2006, 12:21 PM	#4 (permalink)
RAGEAngel9 Insane Location: Vermont	Damn kids, ruining the environment! But that is pretty cool.

01-20-2006, 03:52 PM	#5 (permalink)
Slippery Slope Crazy	Maybe they'll end up getting married to each other in fifteen/twenty years time. How cool would that be!

01-21-2006, 06:05 AM	#11 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	I once threw a bottle into the North Fork of the Snake River about a mile upstream from Mack's Inn. About six months later, I got a call from somebody who found the bottle... about a mile upstream from Mack's Inn. I figure the bottle made about two turns down the river and got picked up by somebody. So I'm not nearly as cool as this kid!