Posted on 12/04/2024 12:27:24 PM PST by Red Badger
Not as amazing as Brandon laying a dodo egg in the Hunter pardon at 82.
A late friend of mine was serving on a USAF aerial refueling detachment on Midway Island in the late 50’s. To pass the time they’d set snares behind one of the hangers to catch albatrosses. 2 airman would hold the bird on its back with it’s wings spread while the third would spray paint the USAF insignia on the underside of the wings. Imagine the Navy air controllers watching all those USAF ‘birds’ in the pattern!
He finally got busted and dragged before a Navy captain. Somehow he managed not to get sent to Greenland.
Not a single wrinkle.
LOL!! You ain't kidding!!
Little trollop!
Albatrosses are nearly sacred animals to sailors.
From BRAVE AI:
The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Overview
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-1798 and published in 1798. It is considered one of the greatest poems in the English language and a masterpiece of Romantic literature. The poem tells the story of an ancient mariner who stops a wedding guest and recounts his haunting and supernatural tale of a voyage to the South Pole, where he and his crew encounter strange and terrifying events.
Plot Summary
The poem begins with the ancient mariner stopping a wedding guest and detaining him to tell his story. The mariner recounts how his ship sailed southward with a good wind and fair weather, till it reached the line. There, a tremendous storm blew the ship even further to the South Pole, where the crew encountered mist, snow, cold, and giant glaciers.
An albatross, a large seabird, appears, and the sailors greet it as a good omen. However, the mariner, for reasons unexplained, shoots and kills the bird with his crossbow. The crew is furious with the mariner, believing the albatross was responsible for the fair breeze and that its death has brought a curse. After the bird’s death, the wind ceases, and the ship becomes trapped on a vast, calm sea.
As the crew becomes increasingly thirsty, some sailors dream that an angered Spirit has followed them from the pole. The crew hangs the albatross around the mariner’s neck as a symbol of their curse. In this terrible calm, the men on the ship grow so thirsty that they cannot even speak. When the mariner sees what he believes is a ship approaching, he must bite his arm and drink his own blood to alert the crew.
The ghostly ship, which sails without wind, approaches, and on its deck, Death and Life-in-Death gamble with dice for the lives of the sailors and the mariner. After Life-in-Death wins the soul of the mariner, the sailors begin to die of thirst, falling to the deck one by one, each staring at the mariner in reproach. Surrounded by the dead sailors and cursed by their gaze, the mariner tries to turn his eyes to heaven to pray, but fails.
Monte Python?
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