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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread And the message is #67360 04/26/2002 1:58 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE -The Police JUST A CASTAWAY, ISLAND LOST AT SEA-OH ANOTHER LONELY DAY, NO ONE HERE BUT ME-OH MORE LONELINESS THAN ANY MAN COULD BEAR RESCUE ME BEFORE I FALL INTO DESPAIR-OH I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY MESSAGE IN A BO1TLE, YEAH MESSAGE IN A BOITLE, YEAH A YEAR HAS PASSED SINCE I WROTE MY NOTE I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS RIGHT FROM THE START ONLY HOPE CAN KEEP ME TOGETHER LOVE CAN MEND YOUR LIFE, BUT LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, YEAH MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, YEAH OH, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, YEAH MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, YEAH WALKED OUT THIS MORNING, DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I SAW HUNDRED BILLION BOTTLES, WASHED UP ON THE SHORE SEEMS I'M NOT ALONE IN BEING ALONE HUNDRED BILLION CASTAWAYS, LOOKING FOR A HOME I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY 1 HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, YEAH MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, YEAH MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, WHOA MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, YEAH SENDING OUT AN S.O.S. (X12) I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY I HOPE THAT SOMEONE GETS MY MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Have you ever thought how interesting it might be to find a message in a bottle? I have. This winter, while vacationing in Florida, I found a bottle floating on the tide with a message inside. Well, at least I assumed it had a message inside. It was a wine bottle [Chardonnay] and had a rolled up napkin inside. I had no luck getting it out right away and so I threw the bottle in the trunk of my car and brought it home with me. With the aid of my trusty but not rusty shish-kabob skewer I managed to fish out the paper. As I started to unroll the napkin, I could see that there was writing on it. Oh! It WAS a message in a bottle! I spread it out across the top of my printer so that it could dry and started reading. This is what the message read: "SW male desparite desperate for SW Female 18ish. Call 543-6840 Ask for Ronald" Needless to say, I was disappointed. I finally find a message in a bottle and it turns out to be a singles ad. No area code either. Lookin' for a youngin', too. Has anyone else ever found a message in a bottle? If so, what message did you find? Or, if you were going to write a message and put it in a bottle, what message would you write? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And the message is #67361 04/26/2002 2:38 AM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia hev addict hev addict Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia It was a wine bottle [Chardonnay] Hmm... must be from Seeedkneee's north shore. They're the Chardonnay sipping crowd! No, I've never found one. What would I write in one? [inside vodka bottle or alcohol of similar potency] "If the only thing left inside this bottle is the note you're reading, then I'm obviously very drunk, and you should take everything I say with an ocean of salt!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And the message is #67362 04/26/2002 2:57 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Broken Heart by Curtis Ebbesmeyer In the best-selling book and major motion picture Message in a Bottle, a grieving sailor sent touching letters telling of his lost love. For symmetrical irony, during a storm off Cape Hatteras, he followed her to a watery grave. Though fictional, messages longing after lost loves do actually wash up. Satellite Beach, northeastern Florida, Tuesday during June 2000, about midnight. Searching for sea turtle eggs, Brian Priest, 11, discovered a small, square-shaped glass bottle containing a moist message. Disappointed at not finding a treasure map, Brian discovered an undated and unsigned message on a patterned paper torn from a day planner with "Notes" printed at top and "1994 Day Runner Inc." at the bottom. " . . . To say that one man has caused my heart to grieve so seems cruel, but my heart is indeed crushed and nothing will ever make that particular hurt go away," she’d penned into her day-timer. "It is stamped into my heart like a footprint in the sand. But just as I know of God’s goodness, I do have to believe that the tides of the ocean washing over a footprint will be like the ocean of God’s love washing over me . . . " "Will I ever be lover, soul-mate, wife?" "My wish & dream that stretches as far as the ocean is that peace and joy will fill up all the places in my heart — the happy and the sad. Maybe then some other dreams will come true. "Thank you God for an ocean to open up to — to share our desires and hear our prayers. I will find peace and strength in its beauty," she concluded. A note on oceanography. Releasing a bottle in 1994 would allow as many as six years of drift. In three years, currents often carry bottles round the North Atlantic; six years allows for two times around between America and Europe. There’s another aspect to six years that’s not often appreciated. Bottles ‘round the Atlantic often travel at 10 miles a day. Six years is enough time for a bottle to travel some 22,000 miles, roughly the distance around Earth at the Equator. So it’s possible Brian’s bottle floated a long way, possible explaining why the cork crumbled. (Thanks Marge Bell and Sue Bradley for sending in the 19 June 2000 Florida Today news clipping by Milt Salamon.) from http://beachcombers.org/ The Only WO'N! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And the message is #67363 04/26/2002 3:10 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Does it count that I just received today a dollar bill on which this was stamped: Where has this bill been? Where will it go next? www.wheresgeorge.com Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And the message is #67364 04/26/2002 11:33 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Bean old hand Bean old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Not my own story, but my sister-in-law apparently found a message in a bottle when they were in Norway one summer as teenagers. The guy who wrote it was also from Norway (apparently the bottle hadn't made it too far), but turned out to be a real creep. He still occasionally calls and harasses her when he is drunk and feels he needs someone to talk to/annoy. Luckily they are now an ocean apart (my sister-in-law lives in Canada) so he's not exactly a threat or anything. Just a mild, and strange, annoyance! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And the message is #67365 04/26/2002 8:07 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... Jazzoctopus old hand Jazzoctopus old hand Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... A similar, but more advanced, version of putting a message in a bottle is demonstrated in one of PBS's self-promotion commercials. It shows a woman putting a disposable camera in a plastic bag and attaching a letter to it that says "Take picture and return." She then ties the bag to a balloon and lets it go out into the air. Inside there's a map on the wall on which she's put pictures that she's received from around the world--little African children out in the savannah, etc. I don't see how this would be a very feasible operation, but it's a fascinating idea. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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