"A man walks into a bar and orders a bowl of albatross soup. He takes one bite, then walks into the bathroom and kills himself. Why?"
The classic answer has to do with cannibalism and being lost at sea. How dull. Please make up a better explanation for this riddle...if you DARE!!
2007-03-26
18:54:52
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Surely Funke
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here's an example: The man loved his pet albatross, but was curious about the taste of albatross meat. He went to the bar to try the albatross soup, but when he took a bite, he found the silver pendant that he had hung around his pet's neck. That's right -- when he had left, his beloved pet had escaped and been turned into soup. Yada yada yada, he kills himself.
I think that's just as plausible (and introduces as few new elements) as the classic solution.
2007-03-26
19:20:51 ·
update #1
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2007-03-26
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Because 20 years earlier, a psychic told him that if a first bite of albatross soup ever said, "Hello!" to him, he would go insane, and then kill himself.
The soup did say, "hello!"
He just decided to skip some of the more painful intermediate events.
2007-03-26 19:21:18
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answered by Anonymous
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We'll never really know why he killed himself, but it sure makes you think twice before ordering albatross soup doesn't it?
Come to think of it; reminds me of a vintage Sesame Street skit. The one where Grover keeps messing up the guy's soup order. That was probably the same guy in your story. Bad luck with soup I suppose!
2007-03-27 03:00:09
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answered by Sherry 3
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Because when he walked into the bar, his head really hurt so much that he thought the soup would help when actually it helped give him brain damage and then he ran to the bathroom to try and rinse the taste out but instead he killed himself thanks to the bad chemicals in the soup combined with the mild concusion.
2007-03-27 04:57:21
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answered by Akira_Cat 3
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The man was lost at sea with a ship crew, who didn't have any food except their own dead. So they told him that they were feeding him "albatross soup" when it was really the meat of their dead.
So when he takes a bite of real albatross soup, he realizes that he never was fed real albatross soup, and that he must have been fed the only other source of meat (humans). He can't live with this so he kills himself
2007-03-27 02:01:31
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answered by Kevin 5
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had he known albatross soup to be so delicious he would have had it sooner, and far more often than his wife's cooking. Feelin he could not make up for lost time, he offed himself.
2007-03-27 02:35:45
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answered by GreyRainbow 4
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becos he thought his wife's cooking is worst until he tasted that soup. he was devastated..cos he will never taste a good soup anymore in life. blame the soup, the cook and his wife.
2007-03-27 02:01:27
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answered by Eledron 3
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there is some fallacy in this story...
the police reoprt is not true..
it wasn't suicide..
the chef of the restaurant was his enemy and decided to kill him by poisoning him...
cheers,
oblivion
2007-03-27 02:44:02
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answered by akoaypilipino 4
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was the soup that bad?
2007-03-27 02:03:38
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answered by Kaos 2
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Because he got sucked into a stupid question and wasted his time.
2007-03-28 00:52:00
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answered by Anonymous
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He goes into the bathroom and kills himself because he just say his wife sitting across the restaurant with three other guys' ***** inside her every orifice.
2007-03-27 01:58:54
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answered by hell_speak 2
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