Albatross, get your albatross!!

[Gob]

A second seagull has been rescued after falling into a vat of curry.



The RSPCA said the bird fell into a vat of bright orange tandoori sauce in Newport, south Wales.

It was taken to the Vale Wildlife Hospital near Tewkesbury where it was washed and is now due to be released back into the wild.

The same rescue centre cared for another seagull which had fallen into a container of chicken tikka masala, also in south Wales, in June.

An RSPCA spokeswoman: "We get many calls about injured gulls - especially at this time of year - but this one was a bit more unusual than the norm.

"He must have had a shock when he fell in the curry.

"We have no idea if it flew in because it was hungry or if he fell in by accident.

"He's uninjured and just needed a good clean, but I expect he will be put off from curry after this."

The first seagull that got covered in curry gained the nickname "gullfrazie" on social media.

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Thar be one I knows with an albatross:

SEA CHANTY

I'm the Pirate Queen of the Baltic Run, and nobody fucks
with me--
And those who've tried are bones and skulls, and lie beneath
the sea.
And the little fish like messengers swim in and out their eyes,
Singing, "Fuck ye not with Gory Gnahb and her desperate
enterprise!"

I'll tangle with a battleship, I'll massacre a sloop,
I've sent a hundred souls to hell in one relentless swoop--
I've seen the Flying Dutchman, and each time we pass, he cries,
"Oh, steer me clear of GOry Gnahb, and her desperate
enterprise!"

Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow.

Per'aps you'd be favorin' calmer seas than them. 'eh my pretty?


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[BoSoxGal]

Mmmmm, giant vat of curry - where do I sign up for a dip?

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Mmmmm, giant vat of curry - where do I sign up for a dip?

Ye'll have to be askin' him:



If you dare the cost.


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[RayThom]

"Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young !
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung." Sir Neville Mariner

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Marriner, that be a fiddly sorta name.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge be the right of it, Arr be thinkin'.


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