October 10, 2006

• heh heh heh It is bad luck to cross a stream carrying a cat. - French superstition ...for truthfully the cat will lacerate you in her attempts to escape... To see a white cat on the road is lucky. ...though perhaps not for the cat...
• What a cool link! Good-luck bananas to you, bees. Wedding Superstitions: If the groom drops the wedding band during the ceremony, the marriage is doomed. • The spouse who goes to sleep first on the wedding day will be the first to die. I think I'll email this to my three engaged friends.
• Stuff fennel in your keyhole... Nope. Sounds painful. Think I'll pass.
• I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. --Babe Ruth
• I guess it's a good thing I stayed up all night doing coke on my wedding night! har!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• It is unlucky to wash a baby's head for the first twelve months. Ew! Washing a child's hand's before his first birthday will take away his riches and would live and die poor. Again with the ew. Who sleeps on their wedding night? I mean really!
• o worse than clod! lie slumbering there leaving your dainty bride to blot the angry tear but lo! she too reclines upon the bed, wakefulness abhoring and soon the nuptial chamber swells with thunder of their snoring
• A dog eating grass will actually bring a stain on the carpet, not rain, I think you'll find.
• O I do not wish to find! But since I now have two aged and increasingly decrepit dogs in the household, I'm sure I will.
• It is unlucky to wash a baby's head I was astonished when my first daughter was small to be told by my mother that she "didn't believe" in bathing babies. To hide in a bull's pen - immunity from lightning Aye, to be sure: and contrariwise: to be struck by lightning dispels all fear of being gored and trampled.
• Perhaps this is the origin of the belief?
• Yes, that might have something to do with it. In my mother's case, though, she held the view that baths 'weakened' a baby. I suppose if you lived in a draughty old house with only coal fires for heating and no hot water except what you could get out of a kettle, there might have been more risks in a bath than there are these days - but still... My daughter had a mild case of cradle cap for a while. You'd want to be careful what you used on the baby's head, of course, but I can't imagine leaving the crusty stuff to accumulate for a year. (Just another of the joys of parenthood, for any of you contemplating reproduction...)
• Ew. Darling, do try the Sunlight soap!
• If you want to bring on your period put a sprig of parsley inside your vagina for 12 hours - your period should start 24 hours later. Plus you'll dispel any garlic odours! Wearing some very expensive white silk undergarments also works.
• *pops into thread* Woop! *pops out*
• Only card superstition I have is that when playing cards (especially Euchre) one mustn't touch the cards until they have all been dealt. The other part of this is that touching one's posterior and then touching an opponent's cards (before he/she has touched them) will transfer "Ass Mojo" to those cards, resulting in a shitty hand for that player. (Or for yourself, depending on how bad you are at strip poker and how good you are at wiping.)
• *longing for a game of pinochle is instantly rekindled in him*
• Ass Mojo?? You people are so strange.
• Didya know Euchre is where we get the Joker card from? It's a fact! Very probably.
• You cur! Lookit all these queens 'n' jacks with strange brown streaks upon their backs. Poker! Any joker should be wild to be so vulgarly defiled.
• A kitten born in May - a witches cat A black cat seen from behind - a bad omen Stray tortoise shell cat - bad omen Cats bought with money will never be good mousers Cat sneezing once - rain Cat sneezing three times - the family will catch a cold Kicking a cat - Rheumatism It is bad luck to see a white cat at night If a cat washes behind its ears, it will rain. A cat sleeping with all four paws tucked under means cold weather ahead. If cats desert a house, illness will always reign there. As a cat owner, I can testify that all these are true, plus the one they left out about cats stealing your breath when they sleep in the bed with you. It is bad luck to cross a stream carrying a cat. This seems not so much bad luck as utter stupidity. I guess the stream will be handy for washing the many deep gashes the cat will leave on your body.
• They don't mention that if a dog sleeps in the bed with you there's a fair chance you'll wake up with a dog butt near your head. That's a rough morning, there boy.
• If you wear a mouse on your head, it melts the glue in your shoes. If you cut your tongue, kill a haberdasher with a straight razor or you will never be able to speak the truth again. Unless the groom feels up the bridesmaid shortly before the wedding and paints her thighs with soot, the bride’s parents will recieve the ass mojo. If you wake up in the middle of the night with the terrors, go into the street with a brick or a rock and crush shrubbery screaming Latvian profanities while your wife or sister (NOT your mother) drapes anchovies over your shoulders or else you will die before your next dream. S'true.
• The internets really need a superstition generator. Can someone write one, please?
• Sailors have always been a superstitious lot. Some of 'em won't even allow bananas aboard.
• If you don't take bananas aboard your schooner, the monkeys will jump ship, and you will sink before you leave the harbor.
• Is that a banana in your boat or did your monkey jump ship?
• Drunken monkeys trying to dock a banana boat means ships will be sinking soon... Wait a minute! Islander, that is so CRAP! What about those big refrigerated banana freighters? Are they manned by unsuperstitious monkeys? (or maybe they are superstitious: A human aboard a banana freighter means a monkey could slip overboard (on the peels).)
• My mum-in-law from Indonesia has been staying with us since March (oh, please let it be over soon!!). It has been quite a challenge to deal with the daily absurd superstitions that she firmly believes in. Yes, I am not allowed to let the 9 month old baby girl's flesh exposed for more than mere seconds, lest "dust will enter her vagina and make her infertile..." for example. I could go on and on. Funny things, these superstitions! Especially when they come from a culture other than your own.
• smt, you have my utmost sympathy!
• When's the mum-in-law going home, SMT?