Message In Bottle Found After 98 Years Near Shetland

An anonymous reader writes "A drift bottle released in June 1914 by Captain CH Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation has been found. Part of a project to help map currents, 1,890 scientific research bottles were released around Scotland. Only 315 of them were ever recovered. From the article: 'Mr Leaper, 43, who found the bottle east of Shetland, explained: "As we hauled in the nets I spotted the bottle neck sticking out and I quickly grabbed it before it fell back in the sea. It was very exciting to find the bottle and I couldn't wait to open it."'"

Comments

On the back was written

[Jailbrekr]

BSD Is Dying

Re:Sixpence None The Richer?

[girlintraining]

Yes, but was he awarded the promised six pence?

When the original bottle and items inside are auctioned off, he'll make far more. Assuming he doesn't succumb to a case of stupidity and opens the bottle like the article suggests, in which case he deserves being whipped repeatedly by angry historians -- and the whip's price shall be six pence.

ping

[djl4570]

$ping 192.168.28.1

Pinging 192.168.28.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.28.1: bytes=32 time=3,092,644,800,000ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.28.1:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3,092,644,800,000ms, Maximum = 3,092,644,800,000ms, Average = 3,092,644,800,000ms
$

Re:ping

[p0p0]

Shouldn't it be closer to:
$ping shetland.gov

Pinging shetland.gov with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from shetland.gov: bytes=32 time=3,092,644,800,000ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for shetland.gov:
Packets: Sent = 1,890, Received = 315, Lost = 1575 (83% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3,092,644,800,000ms, Maximum = 3,092,644,800,000ms, Average = 3,092,644,800,000ms
$

Obvious joke here

[dkleinsc]

Unfortunately, The Police could not be reached for comment.

Re:Obvious joke here

[ThePeices]

Unfortunately, The Police could not be reached for comment.

Joke not so obvious....what do the police have to do with this?

Re:Obvious joke here

[Trogre]

Man, you would have to have been living in a box or walking on the moon not to get that one.

Re:Obvious joke here

[Anonymous Coward]

Jeez, where have you been? Living at the bottom of some dark Scottish lake, or something I presume?

Re:Sixpence None The Richer?

[Chris Mattern]

Kiss Me!

Re:Sixpence None The Richer?

[girlintraining]

"The bottle has been donated to a Shetland museum"

I think there might be a typo here.

Re:The context read .....

[Anonymous Coward]

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine...

Re:Sixpence None The Richer?

[AchilleTalon]

Great deception. I expected the message being something like: That whisky was fucking good!