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Originally Posted by orlok
I also thought it was along the lines of Bookpossum's answer. I know that it was considered lucky if an Albatross followed a ship, so I guess killing one was therefore considered unlucky?
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That was what I thought it was. Simply that you would kill your luck. I think the albatross around the neck was to show everyone who killed the luck. I don't know if the dead sailor thing was part of the same luck story, or something that came earlier or later or even from the same people.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Wow. That seems irrelevant and an overreaction, especially given my nationality, to what seems to me a reasonable guess and one which in no way condoned shooting the inedible.
Just Germans and Americans, eh? Could we keep unnecessary national slurs out of a fun thread?
A simple no would have sufficed.
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Apologies for that. I simply remembered who was attending the safari I saw on the TV (I was disgusted), and blabbed without thinking. I did not mean to imply that Germans and Americans are all killers. sorry!