because he was formerly a sailor cast adrift. During the drifting voyage his companions fed him what they said was albatross, and he greatly enjoyed it. On tasting real albatross he realises that he had in fact been eating human flesh, probably his own children or something, otherwise why kill yourself over it?
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of AlunFoto > Sent: 05 July 2007 07:45 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: GESO - demostration photos > > Ah, > > some divide humanity in two groups depending on knowledge, or lack of > such, on the significance of the number 42. :-) > > The "taste of albatros" is kinda similar, relating to a guessing game > where you are given the end of a story and have to unreel the story > line by asking yes/no questions to the story-"master". The end is > about how a blind man enters a restaurant down on the harbour and > orders albatros from the menu. After taking just one bite, he walks > out and commits suicide. The challenge is to find out why. > > Puffins, otoh, were regular food in parts of Norway until the collapse > of the herring populations in the sixties. AFAIK, it is still on the > menu in Iceland. > > Jostein > > > Cheers, > Jostein > > 2007/7/4, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 4/7/07, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > >What's it taste like. It tastes like bloody albatros.:-) > > > > What have you got against the humble albatro ? > > > > -- > > > > > > Cheers, > > Cotty > > > > > > ___/\__ > > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > > _____________________________ > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
