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Margaret Pilkington 09-03-2012 16:38

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You really don't want to know what happens if you have your unlucky underpants on....but it involves a lot of pain and suffering.

Men never have only one coin in their pockets....and one of them is always a lucky coin.('have you got any change dear?' - 'Yes, but you can't have it, it is my lucky pound'.......it is only lucky because he hasn't spent it).

As for the rabbits foot...it wasn't meant to be lucky for the rabbit......anyway...they hop don't they?
So No.......you aren't supserstitious!

jaysay 09-03-2012 17:35

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Thinking about it the only bit of superstition I ever had was wearing black when playing golf, black shoes, black slacks, black jumper and shirt black hat, wouldn't wear anything else

Gordon Booth 09-03-2012 17:49

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Thinking about it the only bit of superstition I ever had was wearing black when playing golf, black shoes, black slacks, black jumper and shirt black hat, wouldn't wear anything else

Did you carry a violin case as well, just to be sure everyone knew they had to let you win?

jaysay 09-03-2012 18:01

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Did you carry a violin case as well, just to be sure everyone knew they had to let you win?

Used to make um an offer they couldn't refuse:D

DaveinGermany 09-03-2012 18:21

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....you don't have any lucky underpants.......

If they're lying on the floor, I'd say they're pretty lucky. :D ;)

jaysay 09-03-2012 18:24

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If they're lying on the floor, I'd say they're pretty lucky. :D ;)

Just depends what you class as luck Dave:D

Gordon Booth 09-03-2012 18:34

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You really don't want to know what happens if you have your unlucky underpants on....but it involves a lot of pain and suffering.

I do know! I once wore an unlucky pair to play cricket!

mobertol 09-03-2012 18:37

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Breaking a mirror or spilling salt were very costly things to do once over, they were luxuries -for this reason they were considered unlucky.
Don't know about rabbit's feet -my gran had a brooch made out of one -I found it a bit gruesome...

garinda 09-03-2012 19:20

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Magpies are credited with intelligence, and if this includes telepathy, which some animals use, then the magpie will get your message.

Danny Simpson's hailing telepathic Newcastle - NUFC News - NUFC - JournalLive

http://freesmileyface.net/smiley/animals/mini-bird.gif

No, I'm not superstitious.

It seems to me like the beginings of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Or religion.

Neither of which I've got.

Praise the Lord!

Whoops.

Praise be.

:D

garinda 09-03-2012 20:03

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Oh, I forgot.

I do have one superstition.

Never walk down the middle of the road at night.

Or if you do, have a big, dazzling smile on your face.

It could be lucky.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...qTDsZ0u_QoOpUw


:rolleyes:

Margaret Pilkington 09-03-2012 20:19

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I do know! I once wore an unlucky pair to play cricket!

See what I mean....now if you had had your Lucky underpants on, they would have deflected the cricket ball(don't ask me how - that is the part of the magic you do not question):D

Gordon Booth 09-03-2012 20:27

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See what I mean....now if you had had your Lucky underpants on, they would have deflected the cricket ball(don't ask me how - that is the part of the magic you do not question):D

Cricket ball?
The umpire said it was a 'no ball'.
It didn't feel like it-I thought it was a cannon ball!

mobertol 09-03-2012 20:32

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Oh, I forgot.

I do have one superstition.

Never walk down the middle of the road at night.

Or if you do, have a big, dazzling smile on your face.

It could be lucky.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...qTDsZ0u_QoOpUw


:rolleyes:

In the absence of Cat's eyes!:rolleyes::D

susie123 09-03-2012 20:43

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Breaking a mirror or spilling salt were very costly things to do once over, they were luxuries -for this reason they were considered unlucky.
Don't know about rabbit's feet -my gran had a brooch made out of one -I found it a bit gruesome...

Di are you sure it was a rabbit's foot? Most of them are actually grouse or ptarmigan claws especially if they come from Scotland.

There are two on ebay at the moment

rabbit foot brooch | eBay

The lower one I grant you is probably a rabbit's foot but the top one is I think a bird - or the only rabbit I know with feathers!

susie123 09-03-2012 20:55

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I won't open an umbrella indoors, and I don't put new shoes on the table....if I give a gift of a knife or something sharp - I expect a coin in return so that the recipient and I, do not 'cut our luck'.

My grandad's generation in my father's family were incredibly superstitious ad I grew up with these three and still abide by them. And it's not just new shoes but any...

Funnily enough they lived in a house numered 13! I always thought that superstition came from the number of people at the last supper - Jesus and the 12 disciples. Been to hospital today and noticed that one of the beds was numbered 12a rather than 13 - but today was my 13th session of radiotherapy!

Another superstition in our family was that if you come in by the front door you go out the same way and not the back door, and vice versa.

Don't look at the new moon through glass - bit of a bummer if you wear glasses!

Never heard of the magpie one - only the one for sorrow two for joy rhyme.


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