punxsutawney phil day and other superstitions
edith head
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speaking of superstition, i had to move on Lunar New Year (aka Chinese New Year) and my moms told me to not move because it would mean that I would be moving every day for a year. she was genuinely freaked out and acted like this moving every day thing was imminent. one new year, my mom got so pissed because the first person to walk in the door was a non-family member and she thought it meant it would mean her home would be overrun with strangers. of course, that never happened.i know baseball players have ridiculous superstitions as well. i think nomar's thing where he steps out of the batting box before every pitch and does that weird hand/wrist back and forth thing (ayo?) is so so funny. do you know peeps with strange superstitions and rituals? do you have any of your own?
speaking of superstition, i had to move on Lunar New Year (aka Chinese New Year) and my moms told me to not move because it would mean that I would be moving every day for a year. she was genuinely freaked out and acted like this moving every day thing was imminent. one new year, my mom got so pissed because the first person to walk in the door was a non-family member and she thought it meant it would mean her home would be overrun with strangers. of course, that never happened.i know baseball players have ridiculous superstitions as well. i think nomar's thing where he steps out of the batting box before every pitch and does that weird hand/wrist back and forth thing (ayo?) is so so funny. do you know peeps with strange superstitions and rituals? do you have any of your own?
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Some people in Chicago -- especially Sox fans -- got all pissed off with that and would be like, "Chill with the gloves, man!"
One of my only superstitions is to NOT talk about my good fortune. I don't want to jinx anything.
t-shirt when watching each of the Edmonton Oilers playoff games. I also went to synagogue every saturday during that playoff run. That was the last year they won the stanley cup.
i'm sure some of the more, how do say, OCD people on here have some interesting habits.
An interesting counterpoint of course is to invoke the "anti-jinx rule" while doing it to avoid the bad luck from the jinx. You just can't beat using a superstition to circumvent another superstition!
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I always like seeing which athletes start to have long ass beards by the end of the season because they stopped shaving once they hit a winning streak.
a lot of superstitions have legitimate sources, but i can't fathom where the groundhog day tradition came from. so, does anyone know why the whole country is interested in whether a rodent sees its shadow, and really how can we tell either way??
Anybody got a Thrust Re-issue I can listen to? I've never actually heard it.
Wiki will set you free
Oh shit! I forgot about that one. That brings me back. Watch, now I'm gonna be all about it again
I'm not superstitious, but I do have routines that must be followed. Kinda like Nomar's thing, which btw, annoys the shit outta me. I sometimes get a little freaked when I break my routines.
Anybody else have the 'must take first step on stairs with right foot' thingy? I didn't realize I did that until my friend said he did it too. If I'm lined up for the left foot action, I'll do a little stutter step to get my right foot up there first. Pretty weird.
DJ Ferrari
I still find myself playing that game. Except some city sidewalks have awkwardly placed cracks, like every one and a half steps. It trips me up.
huh. those silly pagan germans
What is this anti-jinx rule you speak of? Please tell it's easier than knocking on wood -- ever more difficult in our plasticized society.
If I catch myself doing so I'll jump back on the stair case and double step or something like that. I don't remember why I started doing this but it became habit and I feel like it would be bad luck for me to stop.
BTW I collect records
It's all vocal.
Here's a simple example (me to wife on way home when usually the drive is clotted up with traffic):
"Man, I have to say, firmly invoking the anti-jinx rule, that traffic so far has been non-existent."
Btw - I've taken to knocking on my head when no wood is available.
Oh, and reading about the stairs reminded of the fact that I always seem to have to put my left shoe on before my right. It's not that I think anything bad will happen - it's just that they somehow don't feel right for the rest of the day if I don't do it this way.
Me too. I mean I'm a grown dude and I'll step all over the sidewalk, but I'm always conscious and thinkin about it. My parents' living room still has a certain numbers of steps that gotta be used for each section.
I do that even if there is wood available. Always a good laugh.
DJ Ferrari
They're kind of subconciously biting Samson from the old testament... he was shit at everything once someone shaved off his gruffnut.
Anyway, I used to have a little thing like that pavement crack game when I was a young'un. If I was out walking and a car was coming along behind me, I'd try to beat it to a certain point (like the nearest lamp post or phonebox etc) before it passed me. It wasn't realhead OCD shit, but it kept me fit, thats for sure.
Nowadays I am completely dismissive of all superstition. Here we are in the future, all the knowledge and stuff and yet people still think that some spiritual death trap was created along with....... the LADDER... walk under one of those mufuggaz and you're on the highway to hell!
What about when that dude invented the umbrella...?? Woooo. Inadvertantly unleashed the potential wrath of hell - How were we to know that satan vowed to drop some bad shit on your soul if umbreallas were invented and opened indoors??
People freak themselves out when they see a lone magpie too - they literally convince themselves that their day is going to be shizzle cause they saw a bird chilling out on its own somewhere.
Humans. So intelligent these days.
"Ok, who put the goddamn hat on the goddamn bed?!"
I guess it's not even a real superstition anymore - my wife has her pilot's lisc and I used to grill her about stuff all the time, and I've flown enough (and have taken some lessons as well) that flying doesn't bother me - but I still say it out of habit/pattern anyway.
We broke up.
Neta would probably pissed if you didn't
Portuguese superstitions!