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  1. Buzz
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 8:25 pm |

    I could attempt to translate for you if the pictures showed the letters (kana) better.

  2. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 8:42 pm |

    I’ll try and get a better one next week. I don’t have a computer up at The Asylum to view the pics yet:(

    ( soon my Precious…soon…:)

  3. Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:03 pm |

    Funny, it don’t rook japanee?

  4. mech
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:06 pm |

    Oh Bouy!

    Does it glow in the dark? Night light! Or yard sphere.

    How big is it? I’m guessing 18- 24 inches in diameter.

  5. mech
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:09 pm |

    Can’t wait till it hatches. . .

  6. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:17 pm |

    Rumsfeld found some Styrofoam piece of buoy but it’s not as cool as mine.

  7. rickn8or
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:34 pm |

    Comes a few days too late to cheer Claire up but…

    I hope the last days hurt like a bastard.

  8. Merovign
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:34 pm |

    It’s a miniature Death Star.

    Also, WORDPRESS! Y U ALWAYS FORGET ME!

  9. RAK
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:47 pm |

    if you touch it, DON”T put your fingers in your mouth!

    Not quite as cool as the old hand blown glass floats but hey, it’s still cool gear fro a far off place. When I lived in Alaska I learned to comb the beaches for old nets and broken plastic to get a fire going on the always wet drift wood. It works, just have to wait a while for all the plastic to burn off before cooking on said fire.

  10. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:52 pm |

    ^ I rubbed my eyes and it burned :)

  11. DougM (jackassophobe)
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 9:56 pm |

    Neat!
    You know you have to start a beach-combing collection, now.

  12. Ironic in Denver
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 10:06 pm |

    It’s from Japan: (check)
    It’s round: (check)
    It’s radioactive: (check – I know, but work with me here)

    So:
    .
    .
    .
    .
    It’s a baby Godzilla egg.

    Soon it with hatch, cross the Pacific and ravage Tokyo.

    https://www.marysville.k12.oh.us/mhs/departments/business/raludwin/ludwin4th/RIGOJIRA/images/minya.jpg

    Or maybe stay here and ravage Olympia.
    You never can tell.

  13. Mumblix Grumph
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 10:07 pm |

    Oh cool! I’ve been waiting for some of that stuff to start washing up. If the weather is decent next weekend I may head out to that general area and try out the RV.

  14. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 10:11 pm |

    ^ E-mail me if you do!!!!!!!!!!
    ( so I can get there first :)

    ( Just kidding :)

    ( about the “so I can get there first” part :)

    Yea, it’s a collection now. Rule is tho, no common Styrofoam ones…just uniqe stuff and no two of a kinds…

  15. Claire: pink pig barbarian, etc
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 10:42 pm |

    Yeah. But does it have a nougaty filling?!?

    [keep an eye out for that next Harley.....]

  16. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 10:54 pm |

    ^ What an awesome story )

  17. DougM (jackassophobe)
    Posted May 20, 2012 at 11:39 pm |

    Keep an eye on it.
    If you hear a scraping sound, and one hemisphere starts a slow jerking rotation, leave the area. You don’t want to be there when it unscrews itself enough for light to shine through the crack, because that’s when the articulated stalk with a sensor and raygun at the end begins to emerge.

  18. Spin
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 2:27 am |

    Isn’t this ow the original “The Blob” starts?

  19. JoeBandMember®
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 5:22 am |

    If it proves unsatisfactory,
    please return it to the factory,
    but the factory’s in Japan,

    So, rotsa ruck.

    There are reports from the entire WA coast of the debris starting to arrive.

  20. geezerette
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 6:29 am |

    How could you find something from Japan’s tsunami when you’re on the shores of Lake Michigan? Just askin’.

  21. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 6:47 am |

    ^ See why I am so excited?????????????????

  22. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 7:34 am |

    Uuuuuhhhh, yew might wanna go back to the area and search for a *deflated big ballon*.
    Why? Because naive sweetie pie, you are toooo young to bemember them “Jap Ballons” launched our way in WWII! (…callin a Bomb Demolition Squad might hafta go to the top of yewr “To Do list”, you “Utsicushi baka gajin josan”

  23. TomR, armed in Texas
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 7:35 am |

    Maybe it is a modern version of note in a bottle.

  24. dick, not quite dead white guy
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 8:14 am |

    Twist the hemispheres in the opposite direction to open it and see your claw machine prize.

  25. RAK
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 8:42 am |

    “I rubbed my eyes and it burned”

    Yes, but has a green fungus started to grow yet?

  26. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 8:53 am |

    ^ Silly! I live in WAshington…we ALL have green fungus :)

  27. mojo
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 9:21 am |

    Float, for a net.

  28. ZZMike
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 11:53 am |

    Pix needs scale: take next one next to ruler. Or horse, if needed.

    Open carefully – might be a fortune inside (no, not yen).

  29. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 11:58 am |

    ^ It’s a little smaller than my head :)

  30. Ironic in Denver
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 1:50 pm |

    ^ But how big is THAT?

  31. Ironic in Denver
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 1:51 pm |

    ^^ Please post a photo of the back of your head next to a ruler… or yardstick, if needed.

  32. MikeG
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 2:13 pm |

    Better get fitted for your superhero suit. I got a few ideas….

  33. Andy
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 4:19 pm |

    WILSON!!!!

  34. mech
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 7:22 pm |

    “I rubbed my eyes and it burned”

    Sounds like the title of an earlier post.

    *ducks and covers*

  35. geezerette
    Posted May 22, 2012 at 5:42 am |

    There might be something inside for your dead things collection.

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