1. have you ever sent a bottle message into the ocean &/or balloon message into the air?
2. have you ever gotten replies?
3. please discuss content.
my own answers:
1. yes. both.
2.no.
3. the bottle message was a solicitation of information for a research project of mine with the ultimate goal of creating a calendar consisting entirely of New Year holidays...1 for every day of the solar year, derived from as many different cultures, religions & historical periods as i can find.
the balloon message was the story of a flood in the basement of my family home home that resulted from a broken pipe. at the end of both messages i put my name & p.o. box address.
2. have you ever gotten replies?
3. please discuss content.
my own answers:
1. yes. both.
2.no.
3. the bottle message was a solicitation of information for a research project of mine with the ultimate goal of creating a calendar consisting entirely of New Year holidays...1 for every day of the solar year, derived from as many different cultures, religions & historical periods as i can find.
the balloon message was the story of a flood in the basement of my family home home that resulted from a broken pipe. at the end of both messages i put my name & p.o. box address.
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Thu, May 6, 2004 - 3:58 PM
No, but I always wished I did!
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Mon, May 10, 2004 - 7:25 AM1. yes
2.yes
3. in grade school, we released baloons with a friendly message and the school address. We eventually got a letter from a kid who lived five states away. The content was pretty much "we are here, where are you?" -
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Mon, May 24, 2004 - 12:04 PMit's now relevant to mention here a book that i finished today called Found, a collection of found discards, articles & commentary compiled by Davy Rothbart, creator of Found Magazine. 2 of the best things in this book are an article about a bottle message discovered 19 years after its launching, & a handwritten balloon message, photocopied as-is, discovered stuck in a tree in a cemetery. it's a letter from a son to his mother. i got the impression that the mother is dead. -
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Mon, January 24, 2005 - 6:56 AM1)yes
2)no
3) It was my name,address, and phone #
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Mon, January 24, 2005 - 6:58 AMI would be too afraid of actually attempting this in case some random serial killer happened to find the bottle/ballon! -
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Sat, September 30, 2006 - 10:49 AMYes
No
I put a note that gave my name and address & phone number and stated that whomever found this should contact me and that this would mean we would be lifelong friends from then on. I tossed it into ocean beach in 1991. Maybe someone found it after I moved and tried to contact me & couldnt get me. I guess I'll never know. I was only at that address for about a year. I saw the daughter of the lady that rented me a room beating and screaming at her 5 month old boy a few times. I found a new place & just left one day then called child protective services on her. She called me at work and told me she was going to have her Hells Angels friends kill me. I called Child Protective Services and the police and told them about her threatening to kill me and I never heard from her again. lol She was SUCH a total C word!
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Sat, September 30, 2006 - 1:20 PMBottle messages into the ocean. No but I sent a whole case of beer bottles with cards stating my name, address and Please Reply downstream in the Ohio River. I recapped each and every. No answers. I've sent balloon messages about 20 times. No reply.
I had a beer induced vision of an inflatable date full of helium with name and address magic-marked all over.The wind here blows to the east so somebody in Ohio could get a suprise.
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Sat, September 30, 2006 - 1:25 PM1. Yep. When I was 7 my stepdad got a job as a ranch hand in western Colorado, and the ranch was waaaaay out in the hills. I had a little brother and sister, but I still got lonely, so once I sent a message in a Pringles can down a little stream.
2. No. (Pringles cans probably aren't very waterproof)
3. Can't remember. Probably wrote something basic on Big Chief paper like "Hi, my name is ... and most likely drew a picture on it as well.
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Sat, September 30, 2006 - 10:38 PM1. Yes
2. No
3. My goal was to contact someone far away and share what we had in common. I enclosed my address and phone number, but never had a reply. -
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Sun, October 1, 2006 - 4:53 PMNo bottle message, but a balloon message when I was in grade school. We each put in a friendly hello and an address to be reached to see if we would get any responses, and if so, how far away. No one ever got any news back. Cool concept though...but nowadays, i would think twice about doing that. Never know what could happen or who could show up at your door. Pity. The world was much safer through the eyes of a child.
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Fri, October 6, 2006 - 7:56 PM1. yes to the balloon, no to the bottle
2. Never did get a reply
It was the grade school experiment - most of the students got some kind of reply from different places. A couple of them ended up with penpals out of it.
Now I wouldn't do it, just because I try really hard not to add to the trash that is scattered about the planet... also why I pick up random things on the street :)
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Sun, October 8, 2006 - 4:35 AM1. Yes to both
2. tes to the bottle
I was 22 and working on the ore carriers between Ohio and Minn. I took some meat wraping paper and burned the edges to make it appear old. Then, I wrote in as good of old English that I could, who I was, where I was, what I was up to, and requestrd a reply. One year later a beautiful eighteen year old blond girl from Canada sent me a picture and a lovely note telling now happy she was when she found my *note in a bottle*. She was walking on the beach in the winter, cold, dreary, all alone and found it there, on the beach among the ice and drift wood. I could see where it would have been a great find. I was so very happy and pleased with myself for having done it. It was always my intention to drive into canada and visit her..but as many things go in life, it was put off until nothing but this memory remains. Fun question, brought me a fond memory.
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Sun, October 8, 2006 - 12:12 PM1) yes
2) no
3) 3 of my good friends and myself went on a few adventures through some day a few years ago, we were driving around and stopping off in random places... We ended up somewhere in L.A. and ended up driving back up to SB. Somewhere along the way we stopped off near a beach to watch the sun-set and hang out for a bit. My friend dave came up with the idea to put messages in the bottle, he gave us each a peice of paper and we all wrote something to put in the bottle. None of us read the notes, and i dont think we got into much detail talking about the contents :-p If so, i dont remember what it was ^_^
it was a pretty interesting and random day.
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Fri, October 13, 2006 - 8:13 AM1. Yes - balloon
2. Yes
3. I got a reply when our school sent up balloons. This was in Ohio. We put our school's info in it. We all got pen pals from different areas. The teacher split them up. I had mine for 10 years. He was from Scotland and was visiting friends somewhere (can't remember the place) in lower half of Ohio. I found it interesting that he was from a place I love so dearly. I think it is a wonderful thing to find someone who you might not have through the messages... guess that is why the internet is so popular... we can send out any message we like without fear of someone finding us if we choose not to. I think we all search for connections and this is a great surprise and experience. I just may try the ocean thing just to see!!! -
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Fri, April 20, 2007 - 1:10 PMi put this old thread back up top to share this relevant bit from the current issue of Fortean Times magazine:
"sometimes, bottle messages can lead to true romance. in 1963 when she was 10, Annie Rivet went to France on holiday with her parents. half way across the English Channel she put a note in a Tizer bottle & threw it into the sea. it read: 'anyone finding this message please send to Annie Rivet, (followed by her address in Edinburgh) stating where found. thank you. merci.' the bottle washed up on Noordwijk beach in the Netherlands & was found by 10-year-old Niels Elffers. the children became pen friends & met 2 years later when the Rivets met the Elffers family in Utrecht. they stayed in touch & met for the second time when they were 20. about 3 years later they took a holiday together in France & fell in love. they decided to live together & moved to Vianen in the Netherlands, where they married in 1978. more than 40 years after the bottle message, they are still together, with 2 adult children, & live in Wymondham, Norfolk." -
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Tue, May 1, 2007 - 3:13 AMThat's a beautiful story & pretty much the reason why I sent a message in a bottle when I was in 6th grade, probably about age 10, around 1980.
I wrote a nice letter of introduction along with my address and enclosed it in a glass TAB cola bottle and chucked it in the Monterey Bay.
I never got a reply but I only lived at that address for about 6 months, so who knows?
It probably got sucked into the Monterey Bay Trench - it's deeper than the Grand Canyon!
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Tue, May 1, 2007 - 4:24 PMi used to frequently send balloons with messages but never got a reply back, often it was my address and a request for friendship, or a prayer to god to make people nicer, or stuff like that. sometimes after a long time of never getting replies i just sent gifts, like lollipops, or spinnakers, what are those things called, with the spinner things made out of plastic that spun in the wind? those. or whatever i could get the balloon to carry lol
