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Originally Posted by Tom Alexander
You're absolutely correct, Sir William -- still moored in Nassau harbour -- BUT -- I did run into a fellow in a white suit with a Panama hat and dark glasses, who wondered if, for a price of course, we could run some suitcases packed with U.S. $20 bills down to some unspecified private island in the Caribbean. With a substantial down payment he will advise us of the destination in due course. He also has contracted to have our fuel tanks topped up at his expense. I did give tentative approval when he sent 5 cases of Four Bells to replenish the wheelhouse stock.  |
"Substantial Down Payment.."
This chap didn't have a brother who was a very good friend of the cousin of the President of Nigeria, and was the Foreign Exchange Director of a bank trying to move gazillions of $U.S. into a foreign country and avoiding tax in the process? By all means accept graciously the 5 cases of replenishment, but be EXTREeeeeemly careful of making any kind of "down payment." These fellows in cream suits, crocodile skin shoes, panama hats and sunglasses all have very deep pockets and very short arms! You may never see the money again.
