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01-03-2012, 11:18 PM
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| SPYKER'S ANUS OF JOY  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: I am lost so I am cruel, but I'd be love and sweetness if I had you
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|  Swiss message in bottle found in Africa after 30 years I thought a few of you might like this: A 48-year-old Swiss man was astonished to receive a letter from South Africa this Christmas in response to a message in a bottle he first set adrift on the river Rhine 30 years ago. Werner Kühnis threw the bottle into the waters of the Rhine three decades ago, along with a request for any prospective recipient to send the letter back to him. Last week, the letter was finally returned after the bottle was discovered by a woman in Cape Town, South Africa. "When I saw the envelope, I thought it was an ad for a lottery," Werner Kühnis told newspaper 20 Minuten. After reading the letter, he learned that the woman had found the bottle on a beach in Cape Town. Since she did not speak German, she sent the note on to a friend, who in turn returned it to Kühnis. The delighted auothor of the 30-year-old letter still lives in the same village, Oberriet, in eastern Switzerland. According to the German oceanographer Volker Strass, it is unlikely that the bottle "sailed" alone to South Africa. It may have been transported by fishermen, or by a whale, he said. If the bottle had made it to Cape Town with external help, it would likely have crossed the Atlantic several times, said Strass, until the currents eventually brought it all the way down to Africa. "I find it very surprising that it was even able to cross Lake Constance and the Rhine Falls," he told the paper. Werner Kühnis said he now intened to contact the woman in Cape Town to find out more about the reappearance of his bottled message. |
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01-04-2012, 08:16 AM
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| The Game Is A Foot!    Join Date: Jul 2006
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 Cute story! 
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01-04-2012, 10:17 PM
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| SPYKER'S ANUS OF JOY Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: I am lost so I am cruel, but I'd be love and sweetness if I had you
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| I like whale-mail. |
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01-11-2012, 02:31 PM
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| Velvetyte  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Eastern west coast
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| Apparently nearly as fast and efficient as SNAIL mail... |
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01-11-2012, 10:01 PM
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| SPYKER'S ANUS OF JOY Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: I am lost so I am cruel, but I'd be love and sweetness if I had you
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That reminds me, time to whale mail out my bottles stuffed with 'Nigerian prince' notices. | |
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01-13-2012, 02:07 PM
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| none  Join Date: Aug 2005
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| source for the story plox
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01-13-2012, 10:36 PM
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02-01-2012, 06:33 AM
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| you fool
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02-01-2012, 07:26 AM
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02-01-2012, 08:51 AM
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| I'm rather surprised no one posted this video, yet.  
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04-14-2012, 01:32 PM
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| micro waster  Join Date: Jul 2011
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|  Damn you dyslexia ....I thought this was a nsfw Massage In a Brothel thread  |
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04-14-2012, 07:40 PM
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04-14-2012, 09:14 PM
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