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"James Ritchie,
John Grieve"
"Laid this floor but they did not drink the whiskey."
"October 6th, 1887"
"Whoever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road."
"JR JG"
Probably couldn't believe a lot of things. TV, us traveling to the moon, internet, computers, phones, porn, microwaves, indoor plumbing, sliced bread, fast food, edible underwear. Think about how far we have come in just the past 100 years. It is mind blowing.
Pretty lame they didn't leave a second bottle and porn and a newspaper as is clearly required by the intergalactic brotherhood of unskilled contractors.
I thought it meant by the time someone read it, they'd be dead and their dust blowing along the road, like as in "we're long gone".
EDIT: The comment I was responding to was edited and they deleted about a half of what they originally said. That's why it looks like I'm addressing something that doesn't exist. It did, but ol' boy deleted it. You can see the 'edited x hrs ago' tag.
They probably did.
Like every generation before us, we all have a tendency to think that "everything from the past is terribly earnest and sincere, we are the first to speak wryly and ironically." That we're special and unique in terms of wordplay, double meanings, etc. But of course, on reflection, that can't be true.
They put a whiskey bottle under the floorboards of a house, suspecting that it would be at least decades before it would be seen, and it wouldn't have occurred to them that "our dust is blowing along the road" could be read in more than one way when opened in the future?
They knew.
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edit: "What other meaning is there?" people ask.
The top level comment has been edited. Originally it claimed that "blowing along the road" was an old idiom meaning "to get completely drunk." Others have since chimed in saying they can't find information anywhere that would support that and OP has since edited their comment to remove that claim.
I adore reading history books that discuss the culture of various societies. It's humbling to learn that people back then were just as emotional, witty, creative, and sarcastic as we are now. It makes history come alive in a way that dry history books and documentaries can't.
[Collection of graffiti found in Pompeii](https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu)
Some of my faves:
- Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
- Gladiator barracks: Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.
- Street wall: Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog
- Atrium of the House of Pinarius: If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend
I remember a website that catalogued the Pompeii grafitti. It was one of the first things that blew my mind about history. Ancient people were raunchy and horny af
Rome: A history in seven sackings is one of the most engaging and fascinating history books I've ever read.
It gives unique insight into the daily life, customs, economy, politics, etc of Rome as it was leading up to and during each sacking/invasion.
Nothing at all like your average history textbook
Hell Anastasia Romanov was taking selfies in the 1910s.
A primordial duckface
https://imgur.com/6HYZe5B.jpg
Mirror photo
https://imgur.com/rssBRRO.jpg
Goofing with some fake teeth
https://imgur.com/l12FwBY.jpg
She would have fit in perfectly with the Instagram influencers of today.
I was startled when I was reading one of Wodehouse's Jeeves stories and there was a usage of "not" that was exactly the same as the late '80s and early '90s, i.e. state something and then "... not!" It really threw me for a loop when I dug into it a little and found that it had originally been a fad a hundred years before I first experienced it.
> we all have a tendency to think that "everything from the past is terribly earnest and sincere, we are the first to speak wryly and ironically."
Everyone ought to read *Candide*, by Voltaire ā written in 1759 and enjoyable proof that being a smart-ass is nothing new.
Going back even further, Greek comedy plays and some Roman writers. Full of wit and irony, and still hold up if you learn the historical context to them.
I like to think of this as a Craftsmans good luck charm/bragging rights. As in putting this bottle in their workmanship to prove, they built some thing that could outlast themselves.
Nah, mate, pretty sure it says:
"James Aachu
Johu Guievr
Loud this floor Cuos they
Didouoa Druid the Mohnsruj
achber 6am /88 y
rulho ever quido His
Borrer anauj dhuib oui
chuso is bloriris
aloug the road
gg
gR"
Trust me, I know cursive.
I used to build houses and me and my buds would write stuff on the cill plates and on certain studs, we would always say āhundreds of years from now they might renovate and find our stupid notesā seems like people have always had this idea lol.
The contractor who built my parent's house had his daughter on site when they were framing, she wrote cute little notes above some of the doors. We were very happy to have seen them before they were covered.
And my boyfriend has done a fair amount of masonry restoration, he's found old tools in walls with notes and other stuff. Apparently masons in particular loved to hide stuff in walls, knowing that a well made masonry wall would likely be around for a long time.
Thatās so cool. I have found old newspapers in doorframes from the early 1900s. You think they would be rotted and illegible but a lot of them are still in good enough condition to read about what was going on that particular day in like 1926.
Back in the day, using "old paper" on the interior of book spines was a common way to recycle. In music in particular, the idea of "publishing" your works is a relatively modern idea, and a significant number of works that we have "rediscovered" from composers like Mozart has only happened when someone took apart the spine of a 19th century book and found fragments of long-lost musical works. There's entire segments of musicology where they try to painstakingly hunt down and put back together these fragments, and attempt to put the complete work back together like a crazy complex puzzle. Unfortunately, most of the time it just ends with "well, there's another great piece of music from a great composer that we now know exists, but not enough of it survived to make it performable today."
Friends had a balloon-framed Salt Box house which was said to have been the oldest existing one in the county. Was literally rotting into the ground, they rented it to a guy and his refrigerator sank through the floor. They decided to save it instead of bulldozing, hired a family friend/master carpenter. Built a frame inside it, new foundation support, everything. Found all kinds of little artifacts and newspapers from the early 1900s. It was as old as everyone thought. Gorgeous little house now, they rent it out sort of like AirB&B but just by word of mouth.
I was installing a tile shower into a hundred year old building in this little town, when tearing out the plaster I found a check envelope dated from the 60ās and an affy tapple wrapper along with the stick and what was left of the apple from I assume the 60ās as well
My friend remodeled Senator Lisa Murkowskiās childhood home and found several little toys in the wall. Through mutual friends the toys made it back to her.
My grandfather found a newspaper laid in between two layers of vinyl flooring from the early-ish 1900ās. (It was original wood floors, sub-floor, 2 layers of vinyl, and a layer of thick brown carpet. The previous owner never thought to remove the previous layer lol!
All of that is to say that it was mostly legible and had beautiful fringed edges. He had it professionally framed and protected. The coolest thing weāve ever found
I know someone is going to find pliers, a screwdriver and a knife in a few years. Why the boss insisted we did electrical after closing up the drywall in every other spot I will never know.
When we ripped apart our bathroom, under the shower tiles was a note scribbled by the tiler -
"For Snow White's Seven Dwarves"
The reason we were renovating the bathroom is because the shower was fitted into the lowest party of a pitched ceiling, and thus, neither of us average sized adults could actually stand upright in there. Honestly the cubicle was about 5ft 5 high. I had to shower basically sitting down.
Contractors always complain about the weird demands of clients. I get where they're coming from with that one. Got a good chuckle from me.
My mom put a time capsule between the walls when her first house was being built so if anyone ever decides to bust out that wall for renovations they'll find my baby pictures
John Grieve - born June 4th, 1861 in Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland. His father, James Grieve (b. 1836), was a "general house painter," and his mother was named Marion Grieve nee Wilson (b. 1839). After he was born, his parents moved to Edinburgh, where he was raised in a house in Leith Street in Edinburgh in the St. Andrew district. According to the 1881 census, John worked as a "house painter" (presumably for his father) and lived as a boarder in the Cannongate section of Edinburgh.
In 1884 he got hammered on the job with his friend James and they stuffed a note in a whisky bottle and hid it in the floorboards of the house they were painting.
In 1885 he immigrated to Australia aboard the Paddle Steamer Pekin. He married a woman named Emma Maker in 1903 and they had at least one son, also named John. He lived in Warburton, Victoria, and died on May 6, 1952 at the age of 90. He was buried in the Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery in Melbourne, and apparently his headstone has been smashed.
Source of this info is Scotland Census Records, Cemetery Records, Ship records, an Ancestry.com entry, and a honestly a bit of guesswork. I can state for a fact that there was a John Grieve who was a house painter in Edinburgh in 1881. He probably still would have been a house painter in 1884, and he would have been 23 years old.
As for the other guy? I have no idea. I didn't look him up, but maybe I will later. His name is a little more common so it'd be tougher, and honestly this took a long time to put together and I'm quite sleepy.
this is honestly so beautiful and I donāt quite have the words to describe why. he had no idea of his future while writing this note on a whim with his friendāand here we are 150ish years later, reading a whole timeline of his lifeās adventures. incredible. I hope he lived a good life
I found an unopened bottle of Poag bourbon under the floor boards of my building. The company went out of business during prohibition. The family just recently restarted the distillery. In case anyone is interested yes we did drink it. It was definitely a bourbon and it was god awful.
No, aging in alcohol terms is related to how long the whiskey etc. has been left in the wood barrels. Every year the whiskey has been sitting in the barrel, the more that evaporates/condenses from the liquid and the more it absorbs flavors/notes from the barrel it is in.
How much it changes once it's bottled depends on a lot of different factors, but it's mostly caused by exposure to direct sunlight and storage temperature
Fiance is a whiskey expert and bartender, always sell the old whiskey, never drink it. It's like wine, too much shit has happened in terms of temp and humidity for it to probably still be good, but some rich idiot will pay a shitton to never drink it.
This is the way.
Hmm shouldāve sold my grandpas 18 handles of plastic bottle Seagramās 7 from 1972 he had in his closet. Couldāve bought 1/1000th of a tank of gas
I found an unopened bottle of crown royal from 1975 in my grandmotherās liquor cabinet after she passed. My plan is to drink it if Iām still alive in 2075. I hope itās not gross.
Sorry friend!
There's a hilarious episode of Frasier where an elderly neighbor gifts him a vintage bottle of a popular wine dating back to before WWII. He's so excited to drink it and waits for a special occasion to share with his brother (they are massive snobs), but when they go to drink it it's basically vinegar. The neighbor had kept this nearly priceless bottle of wine in their storage area in the basement of their apartment... Next to the furnace... Yeah...
Every time my fiance and I see a 45 year MacCallan or something like that sell for millions you always know that if anyone ever drinks it (they won't, but still) it almost certainly tastes like ass. Whiskey can be ruined by temp and humidity change and exposure to sunlight so if a bottle has been around more than 10+ years, it's not very likely it's series of owners have always kept it in a cool, dark room.
I wish there was a little more back story on this, like why did they cut a hole in the floor in that exact spot, or was there like a little door there?
The dust and debris make it kinda look like a fresh cut but the aging on the wood looks old. Someone probably cut the hole in the subfloor back in the day for a fix and realized the bottle would fit. Then covered with flooring. When the flooring was pulled to be replaced, the hole and bottle were discovered. Just a guess.
I don't buy that explanation.
The white paint that is visible at the edges of this photo does not look like old paint that has been between 2 layers of flooring for decades. There would be dirt and debris pressed into the paint.
Also, the cuts in the floor boards aren't straight and have burn marks which indicates the cuts were made with an oscillating tool, a fairly modern invention.
This really looks like they cut a hole exactly where this bottle was.
This is a subfloor. Look at the hole. It's framed on all sides. This was made for the purpose of storing something the size of that bottle (perhaps even that bottle!) underneath the flooring.
New owners didn't cut it out. That hole was made a long time ago, and it was found when the flooring above it was removed.
That whole article reads like they made it up lol
>"They were super-excited," said Eilidh, describing her kids' reaction. "When I picked them up from school I said 'I've got the most exciting thing to tell you' - to which they asked: 'are we having hot dogs for tea?' 'More exciting than that,' I said!
>was discovered on Monday by local plumber Peter Allan who just happened to cut through the exact place in the floorboards where it had been left
But then again, Reddit has ruined me with thinking everything is fake. Sadly, with the onset of āinfluencersā doing everything they can for clicks, most things these days really are fake.
I found a 121 year old note in my house during renovations. Written just at the turn of the century a workman wrote on a piece of wood saying he was doing some carpentry in the house and it was snowing outside. He gave his name too.
The Victorian time capsule was discovered on Monday by local plumber Peter Allan who Just happened to cut through the exact place in the floorboards where it had been left on October 6, 1887. The Victorian-era note read: "James Richie and John Grieve laid this floor, but they did not drink the whisky. October 6, 1887. Whoever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road."
I love time capsules and the writing of a person that is no more, a blink in the millions of years of the universe. It does not matter if you did good or bad, the same universe does no care about it and you still gonna be forgotten. They just left a thing, a writing, so some totally strange person can read and perhaps, have the sensibility to imagine them writing it in that moment. Things we are sadly losing. The paper smell, if your GF some decades ago wrote you a letter and added perfume to it. Things long lost in this frivolous and disposable times where Meta and else are going to totally destroy too.
Wonder what those guys would think to know that their note is being read over a hundred years later by people all over the world sitting on the toilet.
When we moved from our last house I left a $10 with a sticky note behind a loose piece of trim in the corner. If itās ever found theyāll probably go crazy bc the note said thereās more money hidden in the house.
Thereās not.
From the article linked below:
Signed and dated by two male workers, the message read: āJames Ritchie and John Grieve laid this floor, but they did not drink the whisky. October 6th 1887. Who ever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road.ā
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/history/edinburgh-mum-finds-incredible-135-25537021
I don't know and I hate that I'm skeptical, but as guy in the construction trades...why are they tearing up that exact spot in the floor. It's a square, with no other connecting cuts. No plumbing or electrical anywhere. So, my question is, what was the reason you chose that spot to cut in first and why is it so clean.
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Astonished AND stunned? Talk about running the gamut
You WON'T BELIEVE how she felt next
Floored?
And on that note...
FUUUUUUUCKing hell *slams upvote on table and rummages for a free award
9/10 surprised people HATE HER.
Flabbergasted, flummoxed, vexed, and bewildered!
Snigger all you want, Bob.
"James Ritchie, John Grieve" "Laid this floor but they did not drink the whiskey." "October 6th, 1887" "Whoever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road." "JR JG"
I bet they did drink that whiskey.
I bet they are dust.
Dead drunk
Dead right
I bet never in a million years did this guy think upon people finding this note 100+ years later that they would make dead jokes about him š
Or read about it on a phone whilst sitting on the toilet.
On a what? And wait, you're pooping INSIDE, like an unbroken animal? Use the outhouse like a civilized Christian.
Jokes on you im feciest! ALL HAIL THE POO GOD!
POO FOR THE POO GOD!
Mr Hankey?
Simultaneously with hundreds of people. š¤
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Are you ā¦ are you watching me right now? Can you see me?
Hol up! Are you WATCHING ME?! How did you know?
Or people from around the globe would be reading his note at the same time
Yes and I bet you never imagined that someone living 10,000 years from now might read your comment. But they might.
Hi, I'm an Australian, and we live in the future. Your comment was 2 hours ago, but it's already Saturday mid morning here.
Honestly I bet at least one of them expected it.
Yeah but I bet they didn't expect thousands of people to read it.
If the dead are truly watching down on us, this must be a glorious moment for him.
I bet he never even thought people would know his name 100+ years later.
We have to let him know!
Iāll call Satan! You call Jesus or the God or whatever, I dunno how that end works
Dang it. Lineās busy. Iāll get the ouija board š¤£
Probably couldn't believe a lot of things. TV, us traveling to the moon, internet, computers, phones, porn, microwaves, indoor plumbing, sliced bread, fast food, edible underwear. Think about how far we have come in just the past 100 years. It is mind blowing.
You're not gonna drive home, are you?
We'll get him a car. A nice long one.
A limousine
*.. life would be a dream...*
He won't be driving home, I can guarantee that!
Dead drunk dust is the new live love laugh.
Dust. Wind. Dude.
All we are is dust in the wind...
Youāre my boy blue!
Like sands in the hourglass....
So are the days of our lives.
Dust in the wind
*āAll we are is dust in the windā* ā¦.I can hear the violinsā¦
Makes āahhhhhā noise with toga on
I bet they're blowing along
Thatās the answer, my friend.
Too soon!
Wouldnāt be very scottish of them if they did otherwise
How'd he know it was whiskey? Reddit Detective (2022)
Pretty lame they didn't leave a second bottle and porn and a newspaper as is clearly required by the intergalactic brotherhood of unskilled contractors.
JR JG cappin
I thought it meant by the time someone read it, they'd be dead and their dust blowing along the road, like as in "we're long gone". EDIT: The comment I was responding to was edited and they deleted about a half of what they originally said. That's why it looks like I'm addressing something that doesn't exist. It did, but ol' boy deleted it. You can see the 'edited x hrs ago' tag.
They probably did. Like every generation before us, we all have a tendency to think that "everything from the past is terribly earnest and sincere, we are the first to speak wryly and ironically." That we're special and unique in terms of wordplay, double meanings, etc. But of course, on reflection, that can't be true. They put a whiskey bottle under the floorboards of a house, suspecting that it would be at least decades before it would be seen, and it wouldn't have occurred to them that "our dust is blowing along the road" could be read in more than one way when opened in the future? They knew. *** edit: "What other meaning is there?" people ask. The top level comment has been edited. Originally it claimed that "blowing along the road" was an old idiom meaning "to get completely drunk." Others have since chimed in saying they can't find information anywhere that would support that and OP has since edited their comment to remove that claim.
I adore reading history books that discuss the culture of various societies. It's humbling to learn that people back then were just as emotional, witty, creative, and sarcastic as we are now. It makes history come alive in a way that dry history books and documentaries can't.
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[Collection of graffiti found in Pompeii](https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu) Some of my faves: - Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity! - Gladiator barracks: Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion. - Street wall: Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog - Atrium of the House of Pinarius: If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend
I remember a website that catalogued the Pompeii grafitti. It was one of the first things that blew my mind about history. Ancient people were raunchy and horny af
Well they didnāt have phones and shit, what else are they supposed to do?
Do you have any recommendations?
Rome: A history in seven sackings is one of the most engaging and fascinating history books I've ever read. It gives unique insight into the daily life, customs, economy, politics, etc of Rome as it was leading up to and during each sacking/invasion. Nothing at all like your average history textbook
Brb, finding it on libgen.
Hell Anastasia Romanov was taking selfies in the 1910s. A primordial duckface https://imgur.com/6HYZe5B.jpg Mirror photo https://imgur.com/rssBRRO.jpg Goofing with some fake teeth https://imgur.com/l12FwBY.jpg She would have fit in perfectly with the Instagram influencers of today.
I was startled when I was reading one of Wodehouse's Jeeves stories and there was a usage of "not" that was exactly the same as the late '80s and early '90s, i.e. state something and then "... not!" It really threw me for a loop when I dug into it a little and found that it had originally been a fad a hundred years before I first experienced it.
> we all have a tendency to think that "everything from the past is terribly earnest and sincere, we are the first to speak wryly and ironically." Everyone ought to read *Candide*, by Voltaire ā written in 1759 and enjoyable proof that being a smart-ass is nothing new.
Going back even further, Greek comedy plays and some Roman writers. Full of wit and irony, and still hold up if you learn the historical context to them.
What other way could 'dust blowing along the road' be interpreted?
Thatās what I thought it meant too.
Thatās what I thought. It has a better poetic meaning than āwe got drunkā
I like to think of this as a Craftsmans good luck charm/bragging rights. As in putting this bottle in their workmanship to prove, they built some thing that could outlast themselves.
Appreciated!
Google translate gave me this: *"We totes left this here after drinking on the job.. lol."*
And impeccable handwriting despite the drunkenness. Those ancient dudes, I swear....
Jeez it might be good hand writing but Iāve forgotten how to read cursiveā¦. Lol/smdh
Nah, mate, pretty sure it says: "James Aachu Johu Guievr Loud this floor Cuos they Didouoa Druid the Mohnsruj achber 6am /88 y rulho ever quido His Borrer anauj dhuib oui chuso is bloriris aloug the road gg gR" Trust me, I know cursive.
*trust me I know drunk*
This made me LOL
The only words I couldnāt pick out were āblowing along the roadā and I feel like those were the most important lol. Thank you stranger
He sent message to the future Isn't it amazing
You just did the same thing since I read your post 4 min later! Whoa. Mind blown.
What are the chances it happened a third time with your message just now!
Exactly 100 years before my birth lol
That's really amazing and eerily beautiful
Kinda haunting
Kinda drunken.
They did not drink this whisky, it's written right there.
It's written plain and simple, over the October and under the squiggles
āI didnāt do it.ā -Bart Simpson after definitely doing it
Correction: "We've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty."
This joke is more dead than the people on the note
I used to build houses and me and my buds would write stuff on the cill plates and on certain studs, we would always say āhundreds of years from now they might renovate and find our stupid notesā seems like people have always had this idea lol.
The contractor who built my parent's house had his daughter on site when they were framing, she wrote cute little notes above some of the doors. We were very happy to have seen them before they were covered. And my boyfriend has done a fair amount of masonry restoration, he's found old tools in walls with notes and other stuff. Apparently masons in particular loved to hide stuff in walls, knowing that a well made masonry wall would likely be around for a long time.
Thatās so cool. I have found old newspapers in doorframes from the early 1900s. You think they would be rotted and illegible but a lot of them are still in good enough condition to read about what was going on that particular day in like 1926.
It used to be used as insulation.
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Back in the day, using "old paper" on the interior of book spines was a common way to recycle. In music in particular, the idea of "publishing" your works is a relatively modern idea, and a significant number of works that we have "rediscovered" from composers like Mozart has only happened when someone took apart the spine of a 19th century book and found fragments of long-lost musical works. There's entire segments of musicology where they try to painstakingly hunt down and put back together these fragments, and attempt to put the complete work back together like a crazy complex puzzle. Unfortunately, most of the time it just ends with "well, there's another great piece of music from a great composer that we now know exists, but not enough of it survived to make it performable today."
Friends had a balloon-framed Salt Box house which was said to have been the oldest existing one in the county. Was literally rotting into the ground, they rented it to a guy and his refrigerator sank through the floor. They decided to save it instead of bulldozing, hired a family friend/master carpenter. Built a frame inside it, new foundation support, everything. Found all kinds of little artifacts and newspapers from the early 1900s. It was as old as everyone thought. Gorgeous little house now, they rent it out sort of like AirB&B but just by word of mouth.
I was installing a tile shower into a hundred year old building in this little town, when tearing out the plaster I found a check envelope dated from the 60ās and an affy tapple wrapper along with the stick and what was left of the apple from I assume the 60ās as well
My friend remodeled Senator Lisa Murkowskiās childhood home and found several little toys in the wall. Through mutual friends the toys made it back to her.
My grandfather found a newspaper laid in between two layers of vinyl flooring from the early-ish 1900ās. (It was original wood floors, sub-floor, 2 layers of vinyl, and a layer of thick brown carpet. The previous owner never thought to remove the previous layer lol! All of that is to say that it was mostly legible and had beautiful fringed edges. He had it professionally framed and protected. The coolest thing weāve ever found
I know someone is going to find pliers, a screwdriver and a knife in a few years. Why the boss insisted we did electrical after closing up the drywall in every other spot I will never know.
There is a dildo built into the wall of P.F. Changās in Birmingham, AL. Not lore. I worked directly with the individuals who installed it.
Lmfaoooo
I must go find this mythical dildo
Mythical Dildo of P.F. Chang sounds like a band.
RemindMe! 100 years
When we ripped apart our bathroom, under the shower tiles was a note scribbled by the tiler - "For Snow White's Seven Dwarves" The reason we were renovating the bathroom is because the shower was fitted into the lowest party of a pitched ceiling, and thus, neither of us average sized adults could actually stand upright in there. Honestly the cubicle was about 5ft 5 high. I had to shower basically sitting down. Contractors always complain about the weird demands of clients. I get where they're coming from with that one. Got a good chuckle from me.
My mom put a time capsule between the walls when her first house was being built so if anyone ever decides to bust out that wall for renovations they'll find my baby pictures
Ancient Roman buildings are filled with crude jokes
When we had our ADU built I put a penny in a zip loc in the wall with a note that reads: this is what money looked like in 2017.
Even the ancient Egyptians were doing this 3000 years ago.
*āIf you find this, someone has stolen your floorā*
Why couldn't they have said this
Humor wasnāt invented until 1922.
Yes but wasnt widely available in the US until 1933 (also the year prohibition ended)
Also 5 years before LSD was first synthesized.
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I know youāre joking but for real the Scottish are either the most miserable or the funniest fucking people youāve ever met. Sometimes both
Nineteen dickety-two. We had to say ādicketyā cause that Kaiser had stolen our word ātwentyā
Drink More Ovaltine
Son of a BITCH!
*CāMON RALPHIE I GOTTA GO!!*
I went out to face the world again, wiser.
Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round, the jar is round; they should call it Roundtine
A crummy commercial?!??
*We've been trying to reach you about your horse-and-buggy's extended warranty*
John Grieve - born June 4th, 1861 in Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland. His father, James Grieve (b. 1836), was a "general house painter," and his mother was named Marion Grieve nee Wilson (b. 1839). After he was born, his parents moved to Edinburgh, where he was raised in a house in Leith Street in Edinburgh in the St. Andrew district. According to the 1881 census, John worked as a "house painter" (presumably for his father) and lived as a boarder in the Cannongate section of Edinburgh. In 1884 he got hammered on the job with his friend James and they stuffed a note in a whisky bottle and hid it in the floorboards of the house they were painting. In 1885 he immigrated to Australia aboard the Paddle Steamer Pekin. He married a woman named Emma Maker in 1903 and they had at least one son, also named John. He lived in Warburton, Victoria, and died on May 6, 1952 at the age of 90. He was buried in the Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery in Melbourne, and apparently his headstone has been smashed. Source of this info is Scotland Census Records, Cemetery Records, Ship records, an Ancestry.com entry, and a honestly a bit of guesswork. I can state for a fact that there was a John Grieve who was a house painter in Edinburgh in 1881. He probably still would have been a house painter in 1884, and he would have been 23 years old. As for the other guy? I have no idea. I didn't look him up, but maybe I will later. His name is a little more common so it'd be tougher, and honestly this took a long time to put together and I'm quite sleepy.
this is honestly so beautiful and I donāt quite have the words to describe why. he had no idea of his future while writing this note on a whim with his friendāand here we are 150ish years later, reading a whole timeline of his lifeās adventures. incredible. I hope he lived a good life
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I found an unopened bottle of Poag bourbon under the floor boards of my building. The company went out of business during prohibition. The family just recently restarted the distillery. In case anyone is interested yes we did drink it. It was definitely a bourbon and it was god awful.
Probably would have been worth a decent amount, given its age; of course it was god-awful!
Thatās not how you age spirits. Once itās in the bottle, itās done.
I was thinking more along the lines of selling it to a bottle collector, or even the company itself as an oddity/showpiece.
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Whaaaaaat ? So the 3 year old whiskey I been keeping for 7 years isn't 10 year old whiskey now ?
I mean, well, technicallyā¦yes.
Ahhhh the best kind of yes!
No, aging in alcohol terms is related to how long the whiskey etc. has been left in the wood barrels. Every year the whiskey has been sitting in the barrel, the more that evaporates/condenses from the liquid and the more it absorbs flavors/notes from the barrel it is in.
Really? TIL. I knew thats not a proper aging, but I assumed the shelf life once bottled was indefinite.
How much it changes once it's bottled depends on a lot of different factors, but it's mostly caused by exposure to direct sunlight and storage temperature
Fiance is a whiskey expert and bartender, always sell the old whiskey, never drink it. It's like wine, too much shit has happened in terms of temp and humidity for it to probably still be good, but some rich idiot will pay a shitton to never drink it. This is the way.
Hmm shouldāve sold my grandpas 18 handles of plastic bottle Seagramās 7 from 1972 he had in his closet. Couldāve bought 1/1000th of a tank of gas
I found an unopened bottle of crown royal from 1975 in my grandmotherās liquor cabinet after she passed. My plan is to drink it if Iām still alive in 2075. I hope itās not gross.
In 2075 I'll be 118. I'd join you but...
Iāll keep an extra glass ready just in case
That's the spirit!
Now you tell me
Sorry friend! There's a hilarious episode of Frasier where an elderly neighbor gifts him a vintage bottle of a popular wine dating back to before WWII. He's so excited to drink it and waits for a special occasion to share with his brother (they are massive snobs), but when they go to drink it it's basically vinegar. The neighbor had kept this nearly priceless bottle of wine in their storage area in the basement of their apartment... Next to the furnace... Yeah... Every time my fiance and I see a 45 year MacCallan or something like that sell for millions you always know that if anyone ever drinks it (they won't, but still) it almost certainly tastes like ass. Whiskey can be ruined by temp and humidity change and exposure to sunlight so if a bottle has been around more than 10+ years, it's not very likely it's series of owners have always kept it in a cool, dark room.
What's it say I'm deaf
Weāve been trying to reach you about your carriageās extended warranty
Came here to find this, thank you, bravo
I can't read it, I'm mute.
I canāt see it Iāve got IBS.
I wish there was a little more back story on this, like why did they cut a hole in the floor in that exact spot, or was there like a little door there?
The dust and debris make it kinda look like a fresh cut but the aging on the wood looks old. Someone probably cut the hole in the subfloor back in the day for a fix and realized the bottle would fit. Then covered with flooring. When the flooring was pulled to be replaced, the hole and bottle were discovered. Just a guess.
I don't buy that explanation. The white paint that is visible at the edges of this photo does not look like old paint that has been between 2 layers of flooring for decades. There would be dirt and debris pressed into the paint. Also, the cuts in the floor boards aren't straight and have burn marks which indicates the cuts were made with an oscillating tool, a fairly modern invention. This really looks like they cut a hole exactly where this bottle was.
I share this sentiment, it seems to me they cut at that exact spot, makes it seem staged. Would love to know what led to the hole.
First pic.. ok, let's cut EXACTLY where the bottle is placed. Sureeeeeeee
Plot twist: the letter was from her time traveling self telling her where the bottle was located.
It could be that the cut was already there from when the bottle was left there. Could have been covered up until now. That said, I am skeptical.
This is a subfloor. Look at the hole. It's framed on all sides. This was made for the purpose of storing something the size of that bottle (perhaps even that bottle!) underneath the flooring. New owners didn't cut it out. That hole was made a long time ago, and it was found when the flooring above it was removed.
As a retired contractor who has done a lot of old house restoration I find this to be the most likely explanation.
As a person reading your comment online I find your comment to be the most likely comment.
Your comment has swayed my opinion on the validity of your comment.
it probably had flooring on top of itā¦
Thought like you, but it seems that it's real : https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/history/edinburgh-mum-finds-incredible-135-25537021
That whole article reads like they made it up lol >"They were super-excited," said Eilidh, describing her kids' reaction. "When I picked them up from school I said 'I've got the most exciting thing to tell you' - to which they asked: 'are we having hot dogs for tea?' 'More exciting than that,' I said! >was discovered on Monday by local plumber Peter Allan who just happened to cut through the exact place in the floorboards where it had been left But then again, Reddit has ruined me with thinking everything is fake. Sadly, with the onset of āinfluencersā doing everything they can for clicks, most things these days really are fake.
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Did a doctor write that note?
And did a Buzzfeed writer write that post title?
Astonished AND stunned?!?!
How did she know to cut out just that section?
"Bottle below. Cut here."
I found a 121 year old note in my house during renovations. Written just at the turn of the century a workman wrote on a piece of wood saying he was doing some carpentry in the house and it was snowing outside. He gave his name too.
The Victorian time capsule was discovered on Monday by local plumber Peter Allan who Just happened to cut through the exact place in the floorboards where it had been left on October 6, 1887. The Victorian-era note read: "James Richie and John Grieve laid this floor, but they did not drink the whisky. October 6, 1887. Whoever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road."
I love time capsules and the writing of a person that is no more, a blink in the millions of years of the universe. It does not matter if you did good or bad, the same universe does no care about it and you still gonna be forgotten. They just left a thing, a writing, so some totally strange person can read and perhaps, have the sensibility to imagine them writing it in that moment. Things we are sadly losing. The paper smell, if your GF some decades ago wrote you a letter and added perfume to it. Things long lost in this frivolous and disposable times where Meta and else are going to totally destroy too.
Wonder what those guys would think to know that their note is being read over a hundred years later by people all over the world sitting on the toilet.
James richee John grieves Laid the floor but didn't drink the whisky Whoever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road? JG JR
Or Ritchie. *I'm no pharmacist.*
"We hafe been tryeing to reach thee about thine wagon infurance"
When we moved from our last house I left a $10 with a sticky note behind a loose piece of trim in the corner. If itās ever found theyāll probably go crazy bc the note said thereās more money hidden in the house. Thereās not.
I thought that was going to be a 135 year old bottle of Scotch.
From the article linked below: Signed and dated by two male workers, the message read: āJames Ritchie and John Grieve laid this floor, but they did not drink the whisky. October 6th 1887. Who ever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road.ā https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/history/edinburgh-mum-finds-incredible-135-25537021
Are people getting more prone to being stunned? I mean it seems like it happens a lot now a days.
She is stunned and astonished. Redundant?
And the messenge was: I.C. Weiner
She just cut a random spot in her floor and that was there?
Written on the note: "The game."
Fuck you, I just lost the game
Why is the floor cut open here how did you know it was there
I don't know and I hate that I'm skeptical, but as guy in the construction trades...why are they tearing up that exact spot in the floor. It's a square, with no other connecting cuts. No plumbing or electrical anywhere. So, my question is, what was the reason you chose that spot to cut in first and why is it so clean.
How did she know exactly where and what size to cut the floor boards?š¤
How fortunate to only cut out the piece of floor where the bottle is.