What a life.

“Far-Flung Bathtub Toys Due in New England
(AP) - Being thrown from a container ship, drifting for more than a decade, bobbing through three oceans — it's enough to turn a rubber duckie white. A floating flock of the bathtub toys — along with beavers, turtles and frogs — is believed to be washing ashore somewhere along the New England coast, bleached and battered from a trans-Arctic journey. Oceanographers say the trip has taught them valuable lessons about the ocean's currents.

8)”

“Heh, it's like all that hockey equipment that gets dumped on it's way here from China and winds up on the Alaska coast!”

“That's some longevity! I can hear the company now "When we say our toys last, they last"!”

“No doubt!

8)”

“I heard about this on the radio. Apparently they have gone over the north pole, unless I misunderstood the oceanographer that was being interviewed. I had no idea the idea that the ice up there "flowed" uni-directionally and that it had such a high turnover rate. Pretty cool stuff!”

“Did you just say that the Arctic icecap was 'cool'?

LOL”

“My sister was in Seattle a few months ago and picked up a "float" from Japan at Rialto Beach. The Japanese fishermen use them to keep their nets up. It's all glass and kind of looks like those old blue Mason jars - only spherical.

It's neat to think that something so fragile could survive such a journey.

I wonder what would happen if we threw Buddha Bear from a container ship in the Arctic Ocean.”

“Polar Bear.”

“A table we ordered while in Fairbanks washed off the ship and had to be reshipped.”

“obviously bush sr's fault....”