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Premise Riddle #8...

Started by Cyclotron, May 05, 2006, 04:02:28 PM

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kryyst

#15
May 05, 2006, 11:58:09 PM
Quote from: Name LipsDid the man suspect the soup was harmful?

WAS the soup, in fact, albatross soup?

No

No
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#16
May 06, 2006, 12:27:24 AM
Was he an ancient mariner?
Did he stoppeth one of three?
By thy long grey beard
And glittering e'e
Now wherefore stoppest thou me?

Hastur T. Fannon

#17
May 06, 2006, 03:10:44 AM
The man was once shipwreaked or in a similar set of circumstances.  Desperately hungry, some of the survivors prepared what they claimed was "albatross soup".  The man has always wondered whether or not it was actually sea bird flavoured or whether it was "long pig".  When this albatross soup tastes different to the one he had then he has a sudden attack of guilt, believing himself to be a cannibal

Right?
 

Roudi

#18
May 06, 2006, 06:42:21 AM
What flavour is it?

Cyclotron

#19
May 06, 2006, 07:55:22 AM
Quote from: Name LipsDid the man suspect the soup was harmful?

No.

Quote from: Name LipsWAS the soup, in fact, albatross soup?

Yes.
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Cyclotron

#20
May 06, 2006, 07:58:12 AM
Quote from: Name LipsDid the man suspect the soup was harmful?
No.
 
 
Quote from: Name LipsWAS the soup, in fact, albatross soup?
Yes.

Quote from: PookaWas he an ancient mariner?
Yes.

Quote from: PookaDid he stoppeth one of three?
No.

Quote from: PookaBy thy long grey beard
And glittering e'e
Now wherefore stoppest thou me?
That is not a yes or no question.

Quote from: RoudiWhat flavour is it?
What an excellent question...

But again, it is not a yes or no question.
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Name Lips

#21
May 06, 2006, 02:15:47 PM
Quote from: Hastur T. FannonThe man was once shipwreaked or in a similar set of circumstances.  Desperately hungry, some of the survivors prepared what they claimed was "albatross soup".  The man has always wondered whether or not it was actually sea bird flavoured or whether it was "long pig".  When this albatross soup tastes different to the one he had then he has a sudden attack of guilt, believing himself to be a cannibal

Right?
I'd like to see this answered. :)
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Hastur T. Fannon

#22
May 07, 2006, 05:06:25 AM
Quote from: RoudiWhat flavour is it?

It's bleeding sea-bird flavour, isn't it!?!?

(did "The It's Man"/"The Hermit" make it to this incarnation of the boards? I haven't seen him)
 

Cyclotron

#23
May 07, 2006, 08:30:09 AM
Quote from: Name LipsI'd like to see this answered. :)

Sorry...

That answer is pretty close.

The version I was taught goes somethign like this...

A blind man goes on a sea voyage, and is shipwrecked with several survivors.  Soon, desperation sets in, and they are forced into cannibalism.  To spare the blind fellow the guilt of the ordeal, they tell him that he's eating albatross.  Later, after they are rescued, he goes to a restaurant and orders albatross soup, since he had actually enjoyed the taste of albatross when shipwrecked on the island.  But it doesn't taste the same...  The realization dawns on him, and he kills himself from the guilt that his fellow survivors had intended on sparing him from.
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mikmikmike2007

#24
May 19, 2009, 04:43:42 PM
he was in the navy. he was stranded on an island and the gen/captain had made albatross and "human" soup and then randomly gave soup to people to keep them feed and alive. he had the soup that was made of human. he did not know this till the real albatross soup tasted differently.

Blackthorne

#25
December 25, 2009, 06:08:06 PM
Pretty clever. And wow, completely missed this one in the lineup.
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