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Looters plunder grounded ship....
« on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 2:48pm » |
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Branscombe - Scavengers scrambled to the shore here on Monday to plunder whatever loot they could from the washed-up cargo of a beached freighter - grabbing everything from BMW motorbikes to nappies.
Hordes of locals and others from further afield descended on the beach at Branscombe on the southwest English coast to pilfer from containers which have reached dry land from the stricken MSC Napoli cargo ship.
Has anyone heard from Helen and the rest of our Brits???
I need a new toaster! 
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« Reply #1 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 2:51pm » |
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I think Helen was scouting out the container that held a shipment of brooms
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« Reply #2 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 3:13pm » |
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A new broom? Sacriledge! I'm sticking to "Old faithful" 
Nice to see traditional pastimes of wrecking and smuggling are still alive in the county my dear old Daddy is from (Devon) Hmm.. it was an Italian ship wasn't it? Wonder if they have a couple of crates of Amaretto for me?! I'm pretty damn sure I don't want anything to do with nappies, I've done my bit for Queen and Country LOL
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« Reply #3 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 3:54pm » |
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What the heck is a nappy?
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« Reply #4 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 3:58pm » |
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I WAS HOME! I CAN PROVE IT!
I KNOW WHO MADE IT ON AMERICAN IDOL !
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« Reply #5 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 3:59pm » |
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A diaper Paul - did you need some? Have you run out already? Blimey.. they don't call you thunderpants for nothing do they? 
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« Reply #6 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:00pm » |
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on Jan 22nd, 2007, 3:13pm, LeLimey wrote:
Nice to see traditional pastimes of wrecking and smuggling are still alive in the county my dear old Daddy is from (Devon) |
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Long tradition of salvaging on some British coasts....
Reminds me of the 1949 film, "Whisky Galore":
"Plot Summary for
Whisky Galore! (1949)
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
When 50,000 cases of whisky are stranded on a ship which runs aground, the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the temptation. Unfortunately, a Home Guard captain (an Englishman) stands in their way."
It's a pretty funny movie, even if it's not a deathless classic. 
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on Jan 22nd, 2007, 3:58pm, chewy wrote:I WAS HOME! I CAN PROVE IT!
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Chewy has this thing for Simon Cowell
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« Reply #8 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:02pm » |
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George you can buy blended whiskey here with whiskey from "The Politician" which was the rea ship the film was based on. I liked that film, it was good entertainment.
Devon and Cornwall was more the setting for Jamica Inn and a couple of films with Stewart Grainger I remember.. damn he was gorgeous back then too!
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« Reply #9 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:03pm » |
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I was gonna add, "Just where was Chewy when the boat went down?".
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on Jan 22nd, 2007, 3:59pm, LeLimey wrote:| A diaper Paul - did you need some? Have you run out already? Blimey.. they don't call you thunderpants for nothing do they? |
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I phart in your general direction
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on Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:03pm, JeffB wrote:| I was gonna add, "Just where was Chewy when the boat went down?". |
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Oh he wasn't there Jeff my sweet, he was ogling Simon Cowell and his tight pants.
Anyway the ship was manned by able seamen
Paulie dear, you fart in EVERYONE'S general direction. We don't call you Paul the Pong without good reason honeybun 
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« Reply #12 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:10pm » |
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Are we even certain it was an Italian or English registry??
I submit it was Chewy, in the pilfered OUCH yacht, on yet another pleasure trip, but he has no navigational skills..which is why he visits Lost Wages every year, rather than travel anywhere else..after 40 some-odd years, he doesnt get lost in Lost Wages, however, being bold, he attempted to cross the pond, bumped into Italy, bounced off, and, there you have it!
It is Chewy, in the OUCH yacht, in England....
still and all, why the nappies?????
Noone will know... noone will know.............
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« Reply #13 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:10pm » |
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on Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:08pm, LeLimey wrote:
Oh he wasn't there Jeff my sweet, he was ogling Simon Cowell and his tight pants.
Anyway the ship was manned by able seamen
Paulie dear, you fart in EVERYONE'S general direction. We don't call you Paul the Pong without good reason honeybun
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My oh my. I'd say you're feeling better, Helen.
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Ah! The foreigners put on such airs
Wearing the tangerine suits
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The pain they inspire
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Which flame up at their touch.
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Helen said seaman.
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Is American Idol over Cheweeee?!
Do you want me to send you some pics of Simon? I wouldn't do that for just anyone you know but you're special cos I know you fancy him almost as much as I do
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« Reply #16 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:22pm » |
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Damn. I'm never in the right place.
Helen, yuz are lookin' good. 
Glad to have you back.
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« Reply #17 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 4:26pm » |
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Do you all know what seaman is??
It's what comes out of a Petty Officers d_ck!
Don't bug Chewy if he's at his computer in a tight shirt and a square black wig telling his pooch how awfull that last bark was.
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An able seaman is a naval rating you landlubber! 
Sheesh.. next thing you'll be telling me a sub is a sandwich 
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least I didn't kill no duckies!
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« Reply #22 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 8:32pm » |
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Chewy - if you're gonna have "possession" of the Yacht, you've got to go to yacht driving school. That's the second one you've wrecked in a year........
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« Reply #23 on: Jan 23rd, 2007, 7:28am » |
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I had not realized that some of our evacuees had made it to Branscombe...?
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