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3. And to think it's because of a story of a sailor who incurred a curse for killing an albatross ...

Mon Feb 27, 2017, 07:43 PM

Feb 2017

i.e. because sailors regarded an albatross as something akin to sacred, and killing one a blasphemy.

OTOH ....

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Albatrosses spend 50 years together [View all] Judi Lynn Feb 2017 OP

it's too bad the word albatross KT2000 Feb 2017 #1

I had no idea how "magnificent" they are. Control-Z Feb 2017 #2

HA! Thanks KT2000 Feb 2017 #4

I'll See Your 'Albatross' and Raise You One 'Crunchy Frog' ... mr_lebowski Feb 2017 #5

Love that one. Had never seen it. Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2017 #6

They are truely BillyBobBrilliant Mar 2017 #7

crows are pretty wonderful too, but so many people hate them. demigoddess Mar 2017 #8