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    Read this article today, thought it was interesting - 100-Year-Old Message In A Bottle Plucked From Baltic Sea.

    A 20-year-old wrote a message, put it in a beer bottle, and tossed it into the sea on Germany's Baltic coast.

    The bottle was found last month - and is now the Guinness World Record holder for the oldest message in a bottle.

    I'm curious about where the bottle has travelled all these years, as it was found near where Richard Platz, who died about 50, 60 years ago, launched it.

    The bottle and mostly illegible note are on display at the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg until May 1. After that, experts will try to decipher the note.

    I think it's a cool story.

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    Default Re: Message In A Bottle

    Sending out an S.O.S. Very cool story.

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    Default Re: Message In A Bottle

    A perfect example of why when the inevitable "What pen on a deserted isle" thread comes up I choose a C/C pen and really small note pads so I can write letters and post them by throwing the note filled empty cartridge into the sea.

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    Default Re: Message In A Bottle

    It is!

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    He was on a nature walk and didn't want to carry the now empty bottle back but leaving it along the trail would be littering thus despoiling the very nature he came to see. Inserting a message into the bottle and throwing it into the sea transformed it from garbage into a whimsically arty communication device rendering his act acceptable to the future generation who would find it. Brilliant!
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    "When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
    and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."

    ~ Benjamin Franklin

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    Great song. Unfortunately, in my youth (a few hundred years ago) after a long nursing shift and winding down in the Drs Mess, the lyrics got changed to 'massage in a brothel.'
    Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Annie View Post
    Great song. Unfortunately, in my youth (a few hundred years ago) after a long nursing shift and winding down in the Drs Mess, the lyrics got changed to 'massage in a brothel.'
    And there is precisely nothing wrong with that!
    "When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
    and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Annie View Post
    Great song. Unfortunately, in my youth (a few hundred years ago) after a long nursing shift and winding down in the Drs Mess, the lyrics got changed to 'massage in a brothel.'
    And there is precisely nothing wrong with that!
    Loads wrong with it probably but it is what it is. Fond memories though <sigh>
    Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

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    Default Re: Message In A Bottle

    I've started hearing the song as "Sending out an SMS, sending out an SMS...."

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    Default Re: Message In A Bottle

    But is "massage in a bottle" a technique?
    "A truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged."

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    Yer basic dye-based fountain pen ink doesn't suffer moisture gladly. Even in a perfectly sealed bottle, a tiny amount of condensation from the wee bit of moist air trapped inside could, I suspect, over time render the message unreadable unless a pigment-based or IG ink were used.
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    Default Re: Message In A Bottle

    Quote Originally Posted by dneal View Post
    But is "massage in a bottle" a technique?
    Nyuk nyuk nyuk

    Or is that nowadays "NNN"?

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