You look for an answer as your question waits.

August 31, 2004 10:01 AM

Found: Hand in Bottle "No one is sure why, but bottles with photographic images of hands have been drifting onto the shores of Clopper Lake in Seneca Creek State Park this summer." (Pictures in the second link, about 1/3 of the way down the page.)
posted by amarynth (13 comments total)

This article is thrilling the high-water thrift-store pants off the art-school kid who is putting the bottles in the lake.

Doubly so now that it's been mefi'ed.
posted by chinese_fashion at 10:18 AM on August 31, 2004

And good for them. This is cool.
posted by geekyguy at 10:25 AM on August 31, 2004

Seneca Creek State Park's history is not devoid of creepy occurrences. It was also the filming site for part of the "Blair Witch Project," the 1999 fake documentary about three student filmmakers who disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Md., while shooting a film. The park's forest and mill were used in the filming.
Ooooohhhhh.....
posted by MrMoonPie at 10:31 AM on August 31, 2004

One reads, "Your question holds more than its answer."

Another states, "You look for an answer as your question waits."

Yoko, 'zat you?
posted by Vidiot at 10:35 AM on August 31, 2004

Three left hands!

(Another item, prosthetic eye was lost. ...I am getting old of this whole pirate thing.)
posted by philfromhavelock at 10:38 AM on August 31, 2004

That lostandfound (second link) site is the tits!
posted by shoepal at 10:51 AM on August 31, 2004

Shoepal, where did you learn the saying, "the Tits"? I have been using it for years but rarely come across other people that use it/know it.
posted by aj100 at 11:18 AM on August 31, 2004

One reads, "Your question holds more than its answer."
Another states, "You look for an answer as your question waits

Sounds like someone is using the lake as a giant Magic 8 Ball.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 11:41 AM on August 31, 2004

Teasers for M. Night Shamalamadingdong's next project?
posted by mygoditsbob at 11:48 AM on August 31, 2004

I say "it's the tits" too. I got it from a former co-worker, who also gave me the deathless phrase "get off my vulva!" (translation: "stop bugging me").
posted by Sidhedevil at 12:02 PM on August 31, 2004

aj100, it's in the movie The Girl Next Door. Also Human Traffic, I believe. I heard it in England, years ago, but only recently started working it into my vernacular.

Sidhedevil, a friend of mine says "Get the sand out of your vadge" (as in vagina), which loosely translates to "stop being a wuss" or "stop whining/whinging." Perhaps not deathless, but addictive and rather easy to say "accidentally" in inappropriate contexts.
posted by shoepal at 1:13 PM on August 31, 2004

How big is this lake? All the bottles were found floating in the lake...seems odd none found there way to shore. Wonder if they're thrown out into the lake right before the rangers come to it.
posted by thomcatspike at 2:12 PM on August 31, 2004

How big is this lake?

Map of Clopper Lake. (Zoom in one tab, it's in the lower right quadrant) It has a 3.3 mile bike trail around it.
posted by beagle at 2:26 PM on August 31, 2004