Pure Jane wrote.
>I don't think a kind suggestion should get so much bad words!!!!!
>China is one of the main countries in apiculture but now more than half
>of her bees are Italian bees. We accept Italian bees for their characters
>are suitable to our conditions. I don't think all the products from a third
>world country inferior to that of a developed country but most of you
>gentlemen have this thought. You just mean all the dirty were from poorer
>countries and ignore the facts the health conditions are being stressed
>in our countries and all the living things that imported and exported
>should pass a strict examination.
 
This was the furthest thing from my mind. The expression "Methinks something
dirty is afoot" is Victorian English used by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in
writing Sherlock Holmes detective novels. It is used to describe suspicious,
fishy, underhand, or actions outside or beneath the law. You will recall
that you were offering Queen bees and Honey across international borders,
without checking the necessary restrictions on trade. With the use of e-mail
one tends to forget, there are rules and regulations regarding international
trade. As an importer-exporter we have to be cognisant of the necessary
customs regulations on a day to day basis.
        I do not apologise for my words as there was no malice intended. I
will apologise for my use of a possible obscure phrase to a foreign national
unaware of the nuances of English. My sincere regrets, it will not happen again.
 
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