BEWARE THE JONAHS WHO BRING BAD LUCK
It seems to me that two sorts of Jonah are still abroad in the watery world. The first lot are traditional, bringing ill fortune to whatever ship counts one on the crew list. The others don’t do much damage to the ship, but they don’t have a lot of luck themselves. In my time, I’ve shipped out with both.
Readers of a certain age will recall the Jonah character who first appeared in the hallowed pages of in 1958. So infamous around the seven seas was this hapless, buck-toothed mariner, that whenever he was first noticed on board, he was greeted with the catch-phrase, ‘Aggggh! It’s ‘im!’ by the mate or the bosun. Everyone understood that Jonah meant the Deep Six for them. And so, week after hilarious week, it proved to
