If you aren't already sick of the message in the bottle:

One email, sent by a furniture salesman to Yours Truly and 3Legged Cat:

"You are now forever famous. You ended up on snopes.com!!!
www.snopes.com/media/notnews/bottle.asp


And Fox News...you right wing scum.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226839,00.html


And the Museum of Hoaxes:
www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/categories/category/Exploration/Travel/


This comment was posted after the story:

So the "man who could only identify himself as 'Tom'" now has to rely
on myspace to hit on 12 year old girls, I guess.
Posted by JoeDaJuggler in St. Louis, MO on Mon Oct 30, 2006 at
08:30 AM"

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And another one (from Chris the furniture guy):

"Tom,

Here on the mainland we have a wonderful sport. We put messages in
bottles and then throw them into small tributaries behind our houses.
Then, because we were raised by trailer-trash parents and taught by
teachers who have such a limited knowledge of hydrology, we have the
mistaken impression these bottles will end up somewhere far away,
rather than 600 yards from our house.

I am 12 years old. Please send a picture of yourself."