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hiphophooray123

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NAPEAGUE, New York (AP) -- A boat captain who sent a message out to sea in a bottle says he received a reply from Britain -- 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 New York's Long Island in August.

Last month, 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 the southern county of Dorset.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/06/message.bottle.ap/index.html
 

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Re: message in a bottle (funnnny)

"I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished"

WTF?

Good deed?

Is that kinda like Iraq?


*sigh*
 

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Re: message in a bottle (funnnny)

well, its an easy mistake. i mean, america is the greatest civilisation SINCE the greeks. so he has a point.
 
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Re: message in a bottle (funnnny)

moonlight_angel said:
You're thinking of the greeks.
Yeah, because they were the first people. :rolleyes:

Pity about this 5th Dynasty tomb, laid out with writing, religion, art, and explicit homosexuality, about 1300 years before the Greeks even got introduced the Phonecian alphabet...

Personally, I agree with the Pom. How is throwing a message in a bottle at all romantic? If we all did it, there would be such a problem.
 

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