'Send nudes': internet suggests alternative messages in a bottle

It may have taken 132 years to get to a beach in Western Australia, but when the world’s oldest message in a bottle was discovered, it’s contents were slightly disappointing.

The note, enclosed in a gin bottle which dates back to 12 June 1886, is believed to have been thrown from the German sailing ship Paula as it crossed the Indian Ocean.

However, rather than a dramatic plea for help or a farewell to loved ones from doomed sailors, the message related to a worthy but not very exciting experiment to track ocean currents.

Predictably, Twitter users had fun with some alternative options.

One user imagined the bottle contained the plea to “send nudes”, while a commenter on Facebook suggested - considering the era in which it was penned - that it might in fact have read: “please, dispatch scantily clad sketches of your figure”.


Source : theguardian