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The funniest superstition
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Santi said on June 23, 2004 05:57:
Please tell the funniest or strangest superstition you believe in or that are to be heard/seen at your place :D
Oh, and don’t forget to say if you’re superstitious yourself ;)
RoxHard said on June 23, 2004 15:42:
The voice in my head told me that if I didn’t eat Tic-Tac’s in even numbers I will die!
ally77 said on June 23, 2004 17:00:
Ohhhh get voices in your head as well... **thanks god it not just me** ;)
MiracleMan said on June 23, 2004 22:36:
I like to believe that I’m not superstitious, but there are times when I find myself in that condition every once in a while.
I have a CD that I used to not listen to because every time I did, something unsettling would happen, so I put it away for quite some time. Then I got a hankerin’ to hear it one day, did and nothing happened. Now if I want to hear it, I listen to the damned thing.
I used to wear a necklace (actually more a string with the Chinese zodiac symbol for the Rooster) and a ring I bought in college whenever I flew. These charms were to keep me aloft. Then I forgot it once and I never bothered with it again.
I also used to look out of the plane window after the wheels left the ground and say to myself “And the ground falls away. . .” I still do that every once in a while. I suppose it’s to keep the plane up as well.
MiracleMan said on June 23, 2004 22:41:
And I once refused to throw up in a cemetery one night after drinking too much of the wrong thing at a party. Took a lot of will power not to, despite all the egging on from my friends, but I didn’t want any bad mojo from it.
Santi said on June 25, 2004 04:16:
You know I have this craze (not really superstition) with CDs, that when I place them on the case I always put them with the letters printed on the CD... how do I say... straight, like the way they should be to be read. I hate it if they are turn or upside down! I actually pay too much attention to how I place the CDs in the cases! :D
purplemedusa said on June 25, 2004 07:40:
With you SAnti! And i hate it when people put their Cd Maxi disks with the silver side to the plastic!! (Oh and people that remove their CD disks from the covers and put them into disk holders are wife-beaters!)
Furthermore, i refuse to leave the house for work if I haven’t written my 3 journal pages.
Santi said on June 25, 2004 08:39:
@Purplemedusa: That of the maxisingles upside down should be considered a crime!! :@ It’s something that grates on my nerves grrrrrrrrrrr
lol :D
Roxer93 said on June 25, 2004 11:02:
Yep, All my CDs are certainly in alphabetical and cronological order (and all facing the same way). It’s not that I’m superstitious, It just makes sense if one wants to find something quickly.
Back to the subject at hand. Some theatre superstitons are that it is bad luck to bring peacock feathers into or wear green in a theatre. Also, we all know that if one tells someone to “break a leg” it is wishing them good luck.
zaine said on June 25, 2004 11:07:
also it’s considered bad luck to say ’Macbeth’ on the night of the play, if it is that you are doing.
do I make any sense?!
MiracleMan said on June 25, 2004 22:40:
Kachina—It was Michael Nyman’s soundtrack to Carrington. I love that first cut especially.
And I do get a little OCD with the CDs when I put them in a case to go somewhere. They have to be oriented correctly in the sleeve.
MiracleMan said on June 25, 2004 22:48:
This may not fall under superstition, but I’ve discovered everybody eats M&Ms in their own special way. It’s odd, but that’s how it goes.
Me (unless I’m unable to) I dump them all out and allign each the colors so there’s one color per grouing. Then I proceed eating the fewest matched color groups until I get down to the groups of the 6 different colors. (Or get sick from eating so many of the little bastards).
I know a woman who eats 3 at a time—two of one color and one of another.
Roxer93 said on June 26, 2004 01:41:
Hmmmm! A little too much info, MM!!!!
Now you’ve given me a craving for M&Ms!!!
Roxer93 said on June 26, 2004 05:46:
Zaine- I thought it was bad luck for an actor to say Macbeth at any time.... Instead they say ’The Scottish Play’.
n-Somnia said on June 26, 2004 08:35:
I’m the same with the “CD arrangement” one. Not really a superstition, but a habit all the same. It just looks tidy!
Roxer93 said on June 26, 2004 09:25:
Got M&Ms. Feel better. Not eating them in any particular way!!!!!
MM-Do u still have light brown M&Ms in the US, or did they replace them with blue ones the world over??
zaine said on June 26, 2004 11:31:
roxer93 - it could be. but as I’ve only ever done the play once, and I’m not an actor myself, I’m not %100 sure ;)
MiracleMan said on June 26, 2004 15:20:
93—We got rid of the light brown for the blue a few years ago. I sort of miss them though. Or was it the red that replaced them. . . since they didn’t cause cancer anymore.
Jud (moderator) said on June 26, 2004 15:26:
LOL I try to eat a different colour of M&Ms every time, and i “peal” them.. take the choco out and then eat the peanut :P
Roxer93 said on July 5, 2004 08:13:
I personally just chew the crispy ones.
Superstition: I heard that it is bad luck not to cross one’s fingers when passing by a graveyard.
harriej said on July 5, 2004 18:23:
A few years ago, when I was playing in a team which had shirts with numbers, I always wanted to play in the shirt with my “lucky” number (nr. 16) otherwise I played not so well.
I don’t have any statistics, but I believe that I played indeed better in that shirt than when I was wearing a shirt with an other number.
Nowadays our shirts don’t have numbers.
sfchemist said on July 6, 2004 08:49:
When cruising the music channels looking for some good music I always start at Kerrang and work my way down, I never start at MTV and work up.
Could just be that I know the number of Kerrang though....
kachina008 said on June 23, 2004 07:00:
My mom didn’t like it if I cut my nails at night. I still don’t know why.
and oh, operating scissors without anything between the blades also makes me cringe (years of conditioninig). If you do that, you are sposedly cutting apart family ties.