I've never heard of one being regarded as a symbol of good fortune.
Whenever I hear the word "albatross" I think of Monty Python.
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Aug 24, 2005 9:51:08 am PDT #915 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2005 9:52:31 am PDT #916 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've never heard of one being regarded as a symbol of good fortune
They are in Japan. Don't know about Saudi Arabia.
-t - Aug 24, 2005 9:53:02 am PDT #917 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I thought that was why you weren't supposed to kill an albatross, because they were good luck.
Nilly - Aug 24, 2005 9:54:51 am PDT #918 of 10002
Swouncing
I've never heard of one being regarded as a symbol of good fortune.
Wasn't it used as one in "The Voyage of Dawn Treader" from the "Narnia" books, where they were inside that black island in which all the dreams (actual night-time dreams, like sock monsters) come to life and they couldn't find their way out, and the albatros showed Lucy the way (and it was actually Aslan)?
I read this book way too many times.
Muppets! Thanks Kathy! Thanks, Tom!
t /I can listen the Tom's mp3 while grading, right?
Steph L. - Aug 24, 2005 9:54:58 am PDT #919 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Whenever I hear the word "albatross" I think of Monty Python.
Only got ONE flavor -- bleedin' seabird flavor!
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2005 9:57:33 am PDT #920 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How sad. I realise I found Brock Peters so evocatively familiar because of DS9. I don't think just rewatching To Kill A Mockingbird will atone for that. I need to buy it.
sarameg - Aug 24, 2005 10:00:25 am PDT #921 of 10002
I think of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
I had to memorize one part of it back in high school. I think I picked the goriest part,
-t - Aug 24, 2005 10:02:24 am PDT #922 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Albatross brings to mind (1) Rime of the Ancient Mariner and (b) that yes-or-no questions only puzzle about the guy ordering albatross in a restaurant and then killing himself after one taste.
tommyrot - Aug 24, 2005 10:02:43 am PDT #923 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think I picked the goriest part,
Because you ended this sentence with a comma, I expected to fine whitefonted albatross gore....
Nilly - Aug 24, 2005 10:04:53 am PDT #924 of 10002
Swouncing
I realise I found Brock Peters so evocatively familiar because of DS9. I don't think just rewatching To Kill A Mockingbird will atone for that.
OK, so last week Buffistas taught me that the hologram-Vegas guy from DS9 was a character in "The Time Tunnel". Not I learn that Sisko's dad is Tom from "To Kill A Mockingbird", and again my head does this flip of "Oh. My. Goodness. Of course, so that's what it was!". Any other guest stars that will spin my head all over again in DS9?
Tom, the mps of "The Muppets" song in Hebrew os not the translation I know! They say the words "muppet show", the actual English words, a few times, including at the last line. The version I knew (though now I have no idea where I know it from, considering the show was not ever dubbed and I onyl watched it in English), had only wards in Hebrew, and sounded a bit different. Strange. I wonder where this version was from. Thanks for the link!
t /If I post enough about grading, will the actual grading end up happening?