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Watch Live : As 100-Year-Old Mysterious Package In Norway Set To Be Open Today (Original Post) Why Syzygy Aug 2012 OP
I will laugh my ass off justanidea Aug 2012 #1
The residents Why Syzygy Aug 2012 #3
watch it be a manuscript he wrote for a really bad play or something snooper2 Aug 2012 #4
I like the way you think... petronius Aug 2012 #8
BRB, making Matrioshka time capsule. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2012 #15
... rasputin1952 Aug 2012 #18
maybe it's dirty laundry? WI_DEM Aug 2012 #2
Actually Why Syzygy Aug 2012 #7
It's not time yet! Why Syzygy Aug 2012 #5
It's Norway Hey Jude Aug 2012 #6
i saw geraldo do the same thing with capones vault leftyohiolib Aug 2012 #9
They should have opened it already. louis-t Aug 2012 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author devilgrrl Aug 2012 #11
Has it been opened yet? Alduin Aug 2012 #12
This better not be a David Blaine trick Hugabear Aug 2012 #13
Newspapers, ledgers, silk sashes and more documents Viva_La_Revolution Aug 2012 #14
zzzzzzzzzz n/t flamingdem Aug 2012 #16
you lack imagination... Blue_Tires Aug 2012 #17
I think they would have preferred deciphering a pile of gold! flamingdem Aug 2012 #19
It's more than what Geraldo got from Al Capone... jorno67 Aug 2012 #21
I don't suppose Geraldo Rivera was there. nolabear Aug 2012 #20
Perhaps... Xyzse Aug 2012 #22
 

justanidea

(291 posts)
1. I will laugh my ass off
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 11:29 AM
Aug 2012

If they open it and there is another smaller box inside that says "Do not open until 2112". lol

 

Hey Jude

(67 posts)
6. It's Norway
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 11:59 AM
Aug 2012

And it's just a batch of lutefisk that should be just about ready.

Ummm, get the cream, butter and lefse ready and bring your own fork.

Response to Why Syzygy (Original post)

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
13. This better not be a David Blaine trick
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 01:37 PM
Aug 2012

They open up the package, and it says "BOO" in large letters...then we notice David Blaine standing among the onlookers.

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
14. Newspapers, ledgers, silk sashes and more documents
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 01:47 PM
Aug 2012

from the Scottish-Norwegian war memorial (?) I didn't catch the first part

here we go
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisbarth/2012/08/24/norways-100-year-old-mystery-package-opened-guess-what-was-inside/
Inside the package? Surprise! Another package! Inside that, much to my dismay, was not an increasingly small series of packages leading to a pea. Instead, the interior package contained a number of fabrics in the color of Norway’s flag – “from the King,” said one of the package openers. Under the fabric the curators found notebooks, newspapers, a letter, a small drawing, some community council papers and other bits of paper.

Among the newspapers were clippings from 1914 and 1919, suggesting that perhaps the package had been added to after it was originally assembled in 1912. Still, the curators confirmed that the package contents were indeed from the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
17. you lack imagination...
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 01:59 PM
Aug 2012
Clearly all those news clips and random papers are some kind of code to decipher

flamingdem

(39,332 posts)
19. I think they would have preferred deciphering a pile of gold!
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 02:03 PM
Aug 2012

Their best bet is what you said, develop a narrative about a code that leads to a treasure and hire a reality series tv crew to film it! heh

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
22. Perhaps...
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 02:06 PM
Aug 2012

They thought that by 2012 the world would be an arrid wasteland and a Pea seed would re-populate a dying world with a plant?

Hrm, I watch and read too much sci fi.

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