Message in a bottle: Australians I need your help!

SSH · Tue 20/07/2004 14:20:57

On Sunday, I found a message in a bottle on the beach. Excitied, I opened the message and read to my chagrin that the message had travelled about all of 2 meters, given that it was written on the menu of the resteraunt that was right next to where we found it. However, there were two addresses written on it. One was:

Eustie Wallabie
73 Didgeridoo Road
Sydney
Australia

and claimed to have been sent 17 December 1924. Funnily enough, the menu had prices in pounds using decimals, too (UK went decimal in 1971) so I was a bit skeptical about the authenticity of this part of the message

Anyway, I'd like to play a wee joke on the senders of this message (the other address was from a village not far from the beach) so are there any volunteers in Australias willing to contribute the cost of a stamp and a postcard to reply to te other address? If so, please PM me and I'll PM back the address to send the postcard to.

Thanks!

Kinoko · Tue 20/07/2004 14:30:48

Interesting @_@ Pity it wasn't some distress signal from a guy on a deserted island... that would have been awesome (though, of course, tragic for said castaway).

Where are you from, SSH? UK? I'd be willing to do it but er... are you sure the other address is authentic too? I guess since you know the village... still, I just wanted to make sure. I just wasn't sure how obvious is was that the second address was the address of the "sender".

SSH · Tue 20/07/2004 14:38:22

Oh, I'm pretty sure the other address is authentic. I checked the postcode on streetmap.co.uk and it matches the rest of the address.

Could you check if there is a Didgeridoo ROad in Sydney

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Kinoko · Tue 20/07/2004 15:16:46

Come on you Sydney people ^_^ Get out your street directories!

Moox · Tue 20/07/2004 15:17:46

You should ask for americans to write them and be like "I found your message in california"

Evil · Tue 20/07/2004 15:45:53

Hah, I'll do it. Won't he be suprised!

Las Naranjas · Tue 20/07/2004 23:43:22

Although I doubt there's a street of that name, and the name "Eustice Wallabie (sic)" is silly enough, there's no Suburb name, and no post code [at least that you've provided]. So, not that I think you were ever in any doubt about that addresses' authenticity...

Since Sydney is so geographically large, anything with just "Sydney" on it, will probably end up in the dead letter office or returned to sender.

So I vote the other address gets a card from Iowa.

Timosity · Wed 21/07/2004 09:01:02

I just looked in my street directory and there is no Didgeridoo Road of any spelling, in Sydney which is strange I thought.

Even though it was obviously a joke, by the name and the address.

It's funny how the people who did it put no thought into it, on a different piece of paper they may have fooled someone for atleast five minutes.

Mr Jake · Wed 21/07/2004 09:48:00

I think SSH wants someone from Sydney to send a postcard to the address thats DOES exist to play a trick on them, not to send a postcard to the Sydney address.

Las Naranjas · Wed 21/07/2004 12:50:26

Who gave you the opposite impression?

SSH · Wed 21/07/2004 13:31:11

Well, I didn't say at the beginning, in case I got replies from a bunch of pervs, but the writing and drawing style on the messages mad eit obvious that these were kids who were eating at the resteraunt with their parents. They probably didn't have a Sydney A-Z to hand. Anyway, Kinoko has already agreed to do the deed, so I think receiveing two replies for one bottle would spoil the joke....

Mr Jake · Wed 21/07/2004 15:07:46

ohhhh I miss read a word in one of the posts.

Sorry Las, may I be forgiven :