Gee, I thought albatross was was an ornament you wore around your neck. So much for a public education.
graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Bob W wrote: > 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
