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    • Sailor Gets Angry Reply to Bottle Message

    From Associated Press
    February 03, 2006 8:44 PM EST
    NAPEAGUE, N.Y. - A sailor who sent a message out to sea in a bottle says he received a reply from England - accusing him of littering. "I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished," Harvey Bennett, 55, told the East Hampton Star.
    The plastic bottle was one of five that Bennett placed in the ocean off Long Island in August.
    Last week, he excitedly opened a letter from England, and was stunned by the reply:
    "I recently found your bottle while taking a scenic walk on the beach by Poole Harbour. While you may consider this some profound experiment on the path and speed" of "oceanic currents, I have another name for it, litter."
    "You Americans don't seem to be happy unless you are mucking about somewhere," says the letter, signed by Henry Biggelsworth of Bournemouth, in Dorset County.
    Bennett, who has a picture of the queen of England in his Amagansett tackle shop, says that Poole Harbor is just a short distance from Weymouth Harbor. That's where the Bennett family embarked for America in 1644.
    The New York Post carried the report on Friday, giving attribution to the East Hampton Star.
    Bennett did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press on Friday.
     
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    Was it an evil message, Mr. Bigglesworth? :biggrin:
     
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    Makes me kinda want to go get a bunch of plastic bottles and put pictures of the American flag, or something, and write, "If you don't like it, get off my planet!!" before sending them off to sea.
     
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    Well, then, Mr Bigglesworth, while you're enjoying your bangers and mash, take a look in the new American dictionary. Why, blimey, your picture's in it, right beside the word "wanker".

    My experience of the UK is that there is one of these tight-assed pricks in every pub - all too willing to tell you how the Americans were cowards for coming into WWII late and how 'ol Monty' singlehandedly won the war.

    Don't get me wrong, I have come to really like the British over the years, to understand their "humour", and to realize that this vocal group of wankers and royalists - with their party puffery, tight-crotched fox hunting pants that make them all seem to sing soprano, and screwed up expressions with far too many crooked teeth for one mouth - are a minority.

    I hope the little wanker is embarrassed by the attention he gets. After all, drawing attention to oneself is like touching oneself suggestively, it's just not the done thing.

    Oh yeah, I almost forget, my dog is more beautiful to look at than Prince Charles' dog, even if he doesn't walk on two legs. :banger:
     
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