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Category Archives: Joke

1987 Message In A Bottle Found: “We Tried to Sail Away”–Help find the senders!

26 Friday May 2017

Posted by in Adventure, Friendship, Joke, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News, plastic, Pollution

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Well, this is a weird one!

Enviro-crusader and “litter picker” Paul Southworth (I am a fan!) was recently out cleaning trash from Arastradero Lake in California–it’s nestled in the San Francisco Bay area. Woo hoo!

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Paul with his trusty litter grabber and bags of junk from litterpicking the O&W Rail Trail in Kerhonkson, NY.

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1967 Message In A Bottle Discovered Inside Concrete Slab in Australia

08 Monday May 2017

Posted by in Friendship, history, Joke, message in a bottle, Mystery Message

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When you hear message in a bottle, I bet you think ocean. I know I do. After all, the most famous message in a bottle stories revolve around the sea…

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A&M Records cover for The Police’s single, Message in a Bottle.

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Message in a Bottle Archives: British War Ships to Hunt Castaways Down Under?

18 Saturday Mar 2017

Posted by in Adventure, hoax, Joke, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, ocean currents, weird news

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In its early days, Australia had two main newspapers. One was The Argus.

On Friday, July 9th, 1909, The Argus told of a message in a bottle found in Singapore. It was signed by two men, Palmerston and Flenn, who asked the finder to send help, as they were “lost in one of the New Guinea islands”.

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The Mystery of the Beautiful Terrorist (Mystery Message #4)

27 Monday Feb 2012

Posted by in archives of the sea, Breaking a bottle, Friendship, Joke, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Romance, weird news

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We’ve had several beautiful days here in Lexington recently, and there’s nothing that makes me eager for adventure like a sunny day.

So…

The message started out looking like this:
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