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 Originally Posted by Aurora_Bell
Though I may have blown in with the Navy question. Or you may know a different version. I've heard more than one version myself, but I'm trying to stick with what appears to be the popular one. If someone gets the gist, though, that'll count. |
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Ooohhh, Unky's trick: do white font. And to read it, you highlight it. Like this: (down there - pointing) Like this EDIT: Next post is a spoiler of AN answer. If you'd like to keep guessing, skip over it. Also, this is not either version I've heard but the same main concept is there. |
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Spoiler My father used to say when I was caught in a fib or lie, "Don't feed me human and tell me it's Albatross" A few years later, he told me a "navy tale" about a ship being stranded on a deserted island, the cook told the crew "this island has plenty of Albatross, so that's what we will eat", the people on the island started disappearing, and no one could figure out why. Finally it was just the cook and the Captain left, they were rescued before another meal was made. When the man ate the albatross he realized what real Albatross tasted like, and knew what happened to his ship mates. |
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As I said above, the main concept is there, in a version I haven't heard. The other two versions I know are below. Highlight everything under this sentence to read them.
Neither version is this detailed, and neither has disappearing people. Both are shipwrecks on a deserted island with no food. And of course people are eaten, he tastes the soup and realizes what happened. So that really is the "main concept" in my opinion. But in one version, there is not all the stuff about the disappearing people. Just simply that the cook says he's killed an albatross and has fixed some soup. When tasting real albatross soup, the guy freaks because it's against his religious beliefs to eat humans and feeling he has sinned beyond saving, kills himself. The version I found most online and was using for answers is that it was just him and his wife and the captain. His wife got killed in the shipwreck, so he already knew she was dead. He didn't of course know the captain had used her for food. So when he discovers it was his wife, he simply can't deal with having eaten his wife and commits suicide. |
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Well, after reading Bella's post (not the spoiler part), I'm somewhat confused by the fact that you said that the man thought the Albatross would bring bad luck to him since I did some research about the albatross and found that there was also a myth of bad luck with killing an albatross among sailors... and then Bella talked about Navys (except that it's completely different from the story I read on wikipedia. So... um... did he gave fake albatross to someone who then died? |
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Well, after reading Bella's post (not the spoiler part), I'm somewhat confused by the fact that you said that the man thought the Albatross would bring bad luck to him since I did some research about the albatross and found that there was also a myth of bad luck with killing an albatross among sailors... and then Bella talked about Navys (except that it's completely different from the story I read on wikipedia.
So... um... did he gave fake albatross to someone who then died?
No. (There are times when it's difficult from this side, but there are times when it's also terribly funny.) |
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Originally Posted by redhed35
Redhed makes my world spin a little off kilter. And I think that is awesome. Big kisses back atcha. |
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Good time for a summary of all questions/answers: *We know the original setting. But only exactly what I said. Don't assume anything other than what was said. *redhead started with trying to guess the senario and all I really said was "no" - so we're going to say that him being allergic to albatross, and whether it's kosher, are not releveant *Is he on holiday? Irrelevant *Is he on a desert island with only one restaurant? Irrelevant *Is it actually albotross soup? Yes *Does he think it's (the soup) something else? No *Did the man really want to shoot himself? Yes *Did someone whom he knew died recently? Someone died, yes. As for "recently" - I would say not really relevant. *Did the man made a promise of some sort to this now dead person whatsoever before having the soup? Irrelevant *Is the dead person in the soup? No *Is the man depressed? Depressed probably isn't the best word, and if you mean like someone being depressed for several weeks or even years, then no. *Is it because of the taste? Yes *Was the man sick? No *The soup was so awful he killed himself? No *Did the food taste good? Irrelevant *Did he have enough money to pay for the soup? Irrelevant *Does the soup remind him of the person who died? NK's answer: kinda; my answer: question taken literally, yes *He perhaps thinks that the albatross would bring bad luck? Irrelevant *the albatross was his long lost pet,on realising this he shot himself out of horror? No *Does he have guilt? Yes *Did he kill someone? No *Did he witness someone die? Yes *Does it have anything to do with the waiter? No *Does he feel guilty about killing the bird? No one asked if he killed it, but no he does not feel guilty about the bird *Does his depression have to do with the death of the bird? No *I added: the entire scenario is not relevant to the death of the bird *Did the soup taste like what he expected? No *Was he used to a different version of the soup? Yes *Was the man in the navy? Irrelevant *Did he give fake albatross to someone who then died? No |
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Let me make sure I have this right: Someone died, who had a(n indirect) connection to the soup, that reminded the man of them. The soup was a different versioin than the man was accustomed to and upon tasting it, he felt guilty and shot himself? Is this right so far? |
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Ah, it's late, so Europe is back with us now. Well, it's difficult, but I've found these types of puzzles to be that way. Have you heard the common one that there's a dead man lying on an island, why? There's like a trillion different reasons for that but you have to find the "correct" one, though I also think there's a couple of different versions of it. These things can take a while and take some patience, and you definitely have to like this sort of thing. Although there are some lateral thinking problems which just have a pretty straight-forward flat-out answer, but still require thinking outside the box. I may throw some of those onto the other riddle threads. If you want the answer it's in posts #66 & 67. Or would you like a hint? |
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