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Garfield Phones Beach Mystery Finally Solved After 35 Years (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: A French coastal community has finally cracked the mystery behind the Garfield telephones that have plagued its picturesque beaches for decades. Since the 1980s, the Iroise coast in Brittany has received a supply of bright orange landline novelty phones shaped like the famous cartoon cat. Anti-litter campaigners have been collecting fragments of the feline for years as they clean the beaches.
But now, the source of the problem has been found -- a lost shipping container. Last year, campaigners from the Ar Vilantsou anti-litter group made the novelty phone a symbol of the plastic pollution on the beaches of the Finistere region -- part of which is a designated marine park. Once a common household item, its eyes open when the landline receiver is picked up, and thousands were made and sold during the 1980s. Collectors still buy and sell the vintage Garfield phone online today. The beach-cleaning teams had long suspected that a lost shipping container -- perhaps blown overboard -- had regurgitated its precious orange cargo. But they had never been able to find it.
But now, the source of the problem has been found -- a lost shipping container. Last year, campaigners from the Ar Vilantsou anti-litter group made the novelty phone a symbol of the plastic pollution on the beaches of the Finistere region -- part of which is a designated marine park. Once a common household item, its eyes open when the landline receiver is picked up, and thousands were made and sold during the 1980s. Collectors still buy and sell the vintage Garfield phone online today. The beach-cleaning teams had long suspected that a lost shipping container -- perhaps blown overboard -- had regurgitated its precious orange cargo. But they had never been able to find it.
Needs to change. Unfortunately dishonest consumer whores in land-locked red states would rather deny that forever-problems exist. Such is the forever-problem of Republican educational standards and illiteracy.
Does it also reveal Jon is gay?
I'll throw this out there as a fun out of context quote:
"Ar Viltansou and local officials say they will continue to harvest Garfields from the coastline."
Monsters!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
From beyoooond the graaaaaaaaaaaave!
A guy knew the location of the container in the early 80s, but nobody else knew about it for 35 years yet this phenomena of washed up phones was well known? Geez, does anyone go exploring anymore?
You are constantly proven a lying faggot here, why continue?
" They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school." - No, he perjured himself under oath. It's not the beer, you lying faggot. IT'S THE LYING, YOU LYING FAGGOT.
Kavanaugh pretended his "Renate Alumnius" was a badge of honor, that "boofing" wasn't anal sex (it was, I was alive then and that was the slang) and "Devil's Triangle" wasn't a drinking game. It clearly is.
YOU TELL A LIE UNDER OATH AND YOU ARE A CRIMINAL. That he basically ATTEMPTED TO RAPE A CLASSMATE also didn't really rise to the occasion of a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS without investigation.
But with TRAITOR SUPPORTING DISHONEST FAGGOTS LIKE YOURSELF in charge? He sailed right through anyway, to lie another day.
Dry your eyes, traitor. Your little perjurer didn't get caught - yet!
They should have either put some lasagna on another beach or set up a couple Nermal statues on the beach. Between the 2 that should keep Garfield well away fro the beach.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
They should have either put some lasagna on another beach or set up a couple Nermal statues on the beach.
They should do that but not to keep the Garfields out...
As I was reading it, I was thinking what a massive waste it was not to turn this into a giant tourist draw! Like you said, Nermal statues on the beach, discounts in town if you managed to find a Garfield phone part and bring it into local bars and restaurants. Garfield themed beach towels and so on.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
You are constantly proven a lying faggot here, why continue?
" They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school." - No, he perjured himself under oath. It's not the beer, you lying faggot. IT'S THE LYING, YOU LYING FAGGOT.
Kavanaugh pretended his "Renate Alumnius" was a badge of honor, that "boofing" wasn't anal sex (it was, I was alive then and that was the slang) and "Devil's Triangle" wasn't a drinking game. It clearly is.
YOU TELL A LIE UNDER OATH AND YOU ARE A CRIMINAL. That he basically ATTEMPTED TO RAPE A CLASSMATE also didn't really rise to the occasion of a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS without investigation.
But with TRAITOR SUPPORTING DISHONEST FAGGOTS LIKE YOURSELF in charge? He sailed right through anyway, to lie another day.
Dry your eyes, traitor. Your little perjurer didn't get caught - yet!
This will help protect the environment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devils-triangle-drinking-game-explained-by-ex-classmates-of-brett-kavanaugh
Umm is that a typo in your spam? Kav said the devil's triangle was a drinking game. It's not. It's a 3 way more commonly known as double penetration. L2UD n00b.
"Garfield" - could be a person or a place, let's keep going
"Garfield phones" - OK, Garfield is phoning someone.
"Garfield phones beach" - maybe a public phone on the beach, or we'll get a useful continuation like "lifeguard" to which "beach" is an adjective.
"Garfield phones beach mystery" - OK, I've lost the plot here. Abstract concepts don't usually accept phone calls. Maybe "lifeguard" will still come next to rescue some sense out of this.
"Garfield phones beach mystery finally". Nope, no lifeguard, no rescue.
Perhaps "Garfield phones beach, mystery finally solved..." Totally makes sense, but I have to assume a nonexistent comma.
Maybe Garfield is a place with a beach, and the beach has a phones mystery. But then it should be "Garfield Beach phones mystery..."
Maybe there is a Phones Beach? But then what is Garfield doing? Surely nobody named a place "Garfield Phones"?
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
Why would they use the phone as a symbol for their anti-litter campaign when they knew it wasn't litter?