And “Republican pundit muses” sounds like the worst set of Greek goddesses ever.
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There was someone else who was worse
Whilst working as a stoker, Priest survived four ship sinkings and two major collisions, most of them during World War I. The ships in question were RMS Asturias (collision on her maiden voyage, 1908), RMS Olympic (collision with HMS Hawke, 1911), RMS Titanic (sunk by an iceberg, 1912), HMS Alcantara (sunk in combat with SMS Greif, 1916), HMHS Britannic (sunk by a mine, 1916) and SS Donegal (torpedoed by SM UC-27, 1917).
After the sinking of SS Donegal, Priest retired from working at sea and left his job as a stoker. He lived out the rest of his days in Southampton, with his wife Annie. He claimed that “no one wished to sail with him after these disasters.”
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“Yes, I said I’d like a half-way ticket, please.”
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Seafaring folk did tend to be pretty superstitious, though honestly, I would have been fairly sure my run of luck would have ended by then too.
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don’t you dare bring a banana on my boat!
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Just look at it… sitting there on the dock as we sail away.
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Well of course - it was an iceBERG. Not a chunk, not a block, not a lump, but a berg. Tells you everything you need to know right there.
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You kill ONE albatross…
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I wonder if that echoes from the times when going to sea was genuinely dangerous and the efforts of each crewman was essential to the survival of all.
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Somehow Sinbad has six voyages where he comes back as the only survivor, and still manages to hire crew for another one afterward, so they can’t always have been that suspicious.
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Heck, every expedition Franklin was in charge of ended with cannibalism, but they kept sending him off until he died. It’s a toss up if it was botulism poisoning or lead, but it’s pretty sure it was the bad quality of the tinned food.
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Or… Sinbad was a massive liar… 
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I think there is a sensible reading where he is making up all the stories about giants and rocs and just murdering his crew to keep all the treasure for himself, but that still doesn’t make me want to sail with him.
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I’m with you there, if he asks, it’s a big “cool story, bro, but no, thank you!”
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Or whistle on board, or stick a knife in the mast, or…
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No whistling onboard!
maybe a fish whistle[1]? yeah, that’s ok.
keelhaul the bastards!
[1]Urban Dictionary: Fish whistle
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News travelled slowly back then. Being the only one to tell the tale helped there.
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