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User ID: 39607259 United States 12/06/2019 09:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So now weve identified one of the individuals whos been littering over the years, with a written confession. Do we get an indictment finally. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75841135 I was going to suggest he would be mailed a fine at the very least... I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 53199845 United States 12/06/2019 09:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "In the summer of 1983, 11-year-old Rob Stober wrote a heartfelt letter in search of a pen pal, tucked it into a plastic film canister and tossed it off a pier and into the sea at Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Quoting: Louis in Richmond It was something he’d done every August between 1980 and 1986 or so, on trips “down the shore” for his birthday. “Having a pen pal in the 80s was all the rage, so I figured this would be a great way to get one,” Stober said. As a kid, he fully expected someone would find at least one of his messages-in-a-canister, but no one ever responded. He gave up hope, and life went on. On Nov. 23, Colington resident April Lovin was beachcombing on Pea Island and found an assortment of oddities, including five military meals-ready-to-eat and … an old plastic film canister. “When I opened the canister I found a folded pencil-printed ruled notebook paper pen pal letter,” Lovin said. “It was a sweet letter with charming facts about his life and a request that if found to write back and send a picture.”" Photos and full story at link [link to obxtoday.com (secure)] <50% Mc Lovin's sister? |
Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 3079061 United States 12/06/2019 09:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cameras used to use 35mm motion picture film loaded into small light-proof reels which came in a plastic canister. This link shows what they look like. [link to www.etsy.com (secure)] Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
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Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 3079061 United States 12/06/2019 10:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | and that he signed the letter in cursive, I concluded the letter had been in the water a while Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77943736 I do not believe that cursive writing is taught in today's public schools. The millenials are ill-educated. Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
TheOracle'sCookie
User ID: 76948143 United States 12/06/2019 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've had a couple of "pen pals" over the years. One of mine from the UK sent me a photo of Paul McCartney with an autograph on the pic. It was a prized pen pal treasure for years until it got "pinched" by an old room mate. I had to laugh years later when I found the autographs were done by a MACHINE and not by the hand of any of the Beetles. Maybe if the signature were from the "real Paul" who supposedly died in a car wreck in 1966 and DIFFERENT from the signature of the "NEW PAUL" after 1966...then it might be valuable even if done by a signature machine. (Haven't ever seen that checked out in the many reports about proof on the real versus the imposter "Paul.") I miss getting letters and mail in the mailbox now...seems a lost art with the internet/cell phones taking over. There is no substitute for a real letter over an email...just not the same! Thanks for the thread, kiddo! Good stuff! TheOracle'sCookie "Know ONE thing absolutely...and you will UNDERSTAND everything. Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass" "...Buckle up buttercups cuz this shit is going to go biblical." GLP'er Thread: Update Pg14 2 Trees of Genesis! Alien Covenant Ridley Scott's new Movie: Carries Message on DNA and Ark of the Covenant! Video Thread: Updated: The Radcliffe WAVE Discovered along Milky Way's Dark Rift! Is this LaViolette's Super Wave? Thread: "Founder of Analytical Psychology," Carl Jung Called "Disturbed" Due to His "Red Book!" Video Thread: Greatest Secret of the United States, Causes of the Ice Age and Nova, Thread: 2-23-2020 pg. 8 Big Update: The DAVINCI EQUINOX CODE: Ancient Equinox temples were WARNINGS not "celebrations" of the sun." Thread: Disney's TV Series "LOST" MARATHON! Numbers/Script Match Future News! 2018-2020 Target Years. |
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User ID: 76948143 United States 12/06/2019 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is a YouTube report of someone finding a film canister dropped by European tourists filming a blizzard in New York City. Was cute...they dropped the film canister and a YouTuber found it! [link to youtu.be (secure)] And...I guess people find "lost and found cameras" and post the developed pictures on YouTube trying to find the owners! There's a whole bunch of these videos if you like this kind of topic...I think it is pretty cool! [link to youtu.be (secure)] NO SOUND...JUST THE PICTURES...LOOKING FOR THE OWNERS. Wouldn't it be wild if someone in one of these "lost and found" cameras/film canisters turned out to be a GLP'er? lol! O'sCookie Last Edited by TheOracle'sCookie on 12/06/2019 12:04 PM "Know ONE thing absolutely...and you will UNDERSTAND everything. Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass" "...Buckle up buttercups cuz this shit is going to go biblical." GLP'er Thread: Update Pg14 2 Trees of Genesis! Alien Covenant Ridley Scott's new Movie: Carries Message on DNA and Ark of the Covenant! Video Thread: Updated: The Radcliffe WAVE Discovered along Milky Way's Dark Rift! Is this LaViolette's Super Wave? Thread: "Founder of Analytical Psychology," Carl Jung Called "Disturbed" Due to His "Red Book!" Video Thread: Greatest Secret of the United States, Causes of the Ice Age and Nova, Thread: 2-23-2020 pg. 8 Big Update: The DAVINCI EQUINOX CODE: Ancient Equinox temples were WARNINGS not "celebrations" of the sun." Thread: Disney's TV Series "LOST" MARATHON! Numbers/Script Match Future News! 2018-2020 Target Years. |
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Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 3079061 United States 12/06/2019 12:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is such a sweet story. Definitely a "doom break!" Quoting: TheOracle'sCookie I've had a couple of "pen pals" over the years. One of mine from the UK sent me a photo of Paul McCartney with an autograph on the pic. It was a prized pen pal treasure for years until it got "pinched" by an old room mate. I had to laugh years later when I found the autographs were done by a MACHINE and not by the hand of any of the Beetles. Maybe if the signature were from the "real Paul" who supposedly died in a car wreck in 1966 and DIFFERENT from the signature of the "NEW PAUL" after 1966...then it might be valuable even if done by a signature machine. (Haven't ever seen that checked out in the many reports about proof on the real versus the imposter "Paul.") I miss getting letters and mail in the mailbox now...seems a lost art with the internet/cell phones taking over. There is no substitute for a real letter over an email...just not the same! Thanks for the thread, kiddo! Good stuff! TheOracle'sCookie O's C. Your posts were showing as hidden to me!?!?! As far as I know and can see, you're not on any ignore or banlist of mine, just one AC from back in April for disrespect in a prayer thread. Maybe that's why I can't find your thread, because it's hidden?! Edit to add: I sometimes get a 'banned IP' assigned by my ISP and I can't post in HLF's foodie thread. Invariably I always panic first and forget to note the IP so it can be removed from the site ban list. Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 12/06/2019 12:13 PM Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
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(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 3079061 United States 12/06/2019 12:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Awww Thanks!!! Usually my threads suck. There are rare occasions I do get one right. Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
Evangelina
User ID: 78228912 United States 12/06/2019 12:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | and that he signed the letter in cursive, I concluded the letter had been in the water a while Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77943736 I do not believe that cursive writing is taught in today's public schools. The millenials are ill-educated. Sweet story Louis! Thank you for sharing angel Concerning cursive writing. THAT should have been a huge red flag all was not well in the educational system. Take your children back people. We owe them big time. You say there is no God.. but I KNOW there is, experience will "Trump" theory every time ~ Evangelina It is not the greatness of my faith that moves mountains but my faith in the Greatness of God TRUTH has Nothing to do with the Number of People Who are Convinced of it. Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer NO AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE WILL EVER PERSUADE AN IDIOT ~~ MARK TWAIN |
Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 3079061 United States 12/06/2019 12:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is a YouTube report of someone finding a film Quoting: TheOracle'sCookie canister dropped by European tourists filming a blizzard in New York City. Was cute...they dropped the film canister and a YouTuber found it! [link to youtu.be (secure)] : FairUSE: And...I guess people find "lost and found cameras" and post the developed pictures on YouTube trying to find the owners! There's a whole bunch of these videos if you like this kind of topic...I think it is pretty cool! [link to youtu.be (secure)] : FairUSE: NO SOUND...JUST THE PICTURES...LOOKING FOR THE OWNERS. Wouldn't it be wild if someone in one of these "lost and found" cameras/film canisters turned out to be a GLP'er? lol! O'sCookie Those were awesome videos! They reminded me of this one with a phone falling from a plane. You need to see how it ends. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 12/06/2019 12:42 PM Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
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(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 3079061 United States 12/06/2019 12:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | and that he signed the letter in cursive, I concluded the letter had been in the water a while Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77943736 I do not believe that cursive writing is taught in today's public schools. The millenials are ill-educated. Sweet story Louis! Thank you for sharing angel Concerning cursive writing. THAT should have been a huge red flag all was not well in the educational system. Take your children back people. We owe them big time. Thanks! Long time no talk! Have a great weekend. Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
Jelly
User ID: 78203688 United Kingdom 12/06/2019 12:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is such a sweet story. Definitely a "doom break!" Quoting: TheOracle'sCookie I've had a couple of "pen pals" over the years. One of mine from the UK sent me a photo of Paul McCartney with an autograph on the pic. It was a prized pen pal treasure for years until it got "pinched" by an old room mate. I had to laugh years later when I found the autographs were done by a MACHINE and not by the hand of any of the Beetles. Maybe if the signature were from the "real Paul" who supposedly died in a car wreck in 1966 and DIFFERENT from the signature of the "NEW PAUL" after 1966...then it might be valuable even if done by a signature machine. (Haven't ever seen that checked out in the many reports about proof on the real versus the imposter "Paul.") I miss getting letters and mail in the mailbox now...seems a lost art with the internet/cell phones taking over. There is no substitute for a real letter over an email...just not the same! Thanks for the thread, kiddo! Good stuff! TheOracle'sCookie I loved my pen pal in Colorado used to send her magazines with photos . Sad to hear you autograph photo was stolen Cymru Am Byth. ^. ^ * * ¥ ~~~ A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you’re loved by others. The Wizard of Oz |
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I don’t want flowers when I die… User ID: 78114258 Tonga 12/07/2019 12:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How sweet! Letters last for years, texts just get deleted... I miss the old days. |
Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 74627261 United States 12/07/2019 12:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes. Digital life is ephemeral life. One flip of a switch and it's all gone. 'Not the same as writing it in stone. Gone in a blink, not lying upon the land for millennia as a message to our progeny. Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 12/07/2019 12:23 AM Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 74627261 United States 12/07/2019 12:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Mrs. just pointed out to me that the Gulf Stream [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] runs up the coast, so the film canister did not travel from New Jersey to North Carolina. Rather it made at least one circuit around the entire Atlantic ocean before washing ashore in the NC Outer Banks far South of where the boy tossed it into the sea. Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
LittleMe
I don’t want flowers when I die… User ID: 75403117 Tonga 12/07/2019 01:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Mrs. just pointed out to me that the Gulf Stream [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] runs up the coast, so the film canister did not travel from New Jersey to North Carolina. Quoting: Louis in Richmond Rather it made at least one circuit around the entire Atlantic ocean before washing ashore in the NC Outer Banks far South of where the boy tossed it into the sea. Ocean currents? |
Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 74627261 United States 12/07/2019 01:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Mrs. just pointed out to me that the Gulf Stream [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] runs up the coast, so the film canister did not travel from New Jersey to North Carolina. Quoting: Louis in Richmond Rather it made at least one circuit around the entire Atlantic ocean before washing ashore in the NC Outer Banks far South of where the boy tossed it into the sea. Ocean currents? Yes, they are in the link above. Clockwise around the Atlantic Ocean. Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
LittleMe
I don’t want flowers when I die… User ID: 75403117 Tonga 12/07/2019 01:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Mrs. just pointed out to me that the Gulf Stream [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] runs up the coast, so the film canister did not travel from New Jersey to North Carolina. Quoting: Louis in Richmond Rather it made at least one circuit around the entire Atlantic ocean before washing ashore in the NC Outer Banks far South of where the boy tossed it into the sea. Ocean currents? Yes, they are in the link above. Clockwise around the Atlantic Ocean. Sorry, I didn’t click on the link. |
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Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 74627261 United States 12/07/2019 01:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | not west of the mississipi 1k to 2k posted for littering along the highways. 1500 for a cig but I'm glad I have stopped smoking [tobacco]! Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 12/07/2019 01:53 AM Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |
AdorableLittlepixie
User ID: 28835591 Australia 12/07/2019 08:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you for such a wonderful feel good thread. Its amazing the way the ocean can carry someones message in a bottle/film canister for years and years for it to turn up and be found still readable. I had a good laugh when I watch the clip of the phone that ended up in the pig pen. AdorableLittlepixie I am safe and protected with every step I take with everybody always. |
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Louis in Richmond
(OP) That is my arm now; broken for 7 months User ID: 74627261 United States 12/07/2019 08:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you for such a wonderful feel good thread. Quoting: AdorableLittlepixie Its amazing the way the ocean can carry someones message in a bottle/film canister for years and years for it to turn up and be found still readable. I had a good laugh when I watch the clip of the phone that ended up in the pig pen. Oh thank you!!! I very rarely post a thread, I'm very pleased this one made people think, 'helped people learn. Until your military service has required you neutralize enemy combatants and invaders in the defense of your country, don't presume to tell us that have defended you that you don't support every shot we fired to eliminate that enemy. |