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1. It's bad luck to pump an odd
dollar amount of gas, like $20.87.
2. It's good luck to change lanes
without hitting a single Botts dot.
3. It's bad luck to use a credit card
for a purchase of less than $20.
4. It's good luck if your state
return just about cancels your
federal balance
due, or vice versa.
5. Leaving time on the parking
meter will bring you good luck.
6. It's bad luck to replace a
component on a PC that's over
5 years old. Resulting system
will have a curse on it and haunt
you all its days.
7. If the restaurant is ethnic and
the clientele is decidedly of that
ethnicity, the food will be good.
8. If you can't remember the name
of the song or artist or actor,
but you want to, and keep trying
for days, someone is trying
to remember your name.
9. It's good luck to google for
something you remember from your
childhood. If you find it, it's
very good luck.
10. It's you skip ahead and
read the ending of a book,
you will break out in hives.
11. If you see a car with a bumper
sticker that you used to have,
many cars ago, you will have to
wash your car soon.
12. If you see a headline with a
word that could be a noun or a verb,
and it actually makes sense either
way, just a different sense, someone
will notice a spot on your shirt.
13. It's good luck to discover an
item of clothing from the 70's in
your closet.
14. It's bad luck to plan an event
for months in advance that's just
a simple lunch meeting for two
people.
15. If you buy a copy of a book
and then discover you already owned
a copy, you will feel slightly
foolish.
16. If you come into the same movie
on cable or dish at almost the same
halfway-through point, two or three
times, you will get permanently
stuck; you will never see the movie
from the beginning.
17. It's good luck to pick up
the phone and someone is already
there because they just called you
and it didn't even have time to
ring yet. If this happens, you
will get extra good mileage for
a week.
18. It's good luck to have a phone
number with a pattern in it,
like 248-8421.
19. It's bad luck to get a phone
with a color not found in nature.
If you do, telemarketers will call
you all the time.
20. It's good luck to see someone
actually growing something you eat.
If this happens, the next item of
that food you buy will be extra good.
Anyone got any others?
a starting point for UB and BZ
http://www.mindwork...lchemy/alchemy.html
me too later [po, Aug 28 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) Leather-Winged Pancreas Eaters
http://www.geocitie...401/prometheus.html
"Prometheus Bound": An off-topic ramble into the art world about winged demons partaking of Prometheus' organs to satisfy the miffed egos of the Gods from the hand and mind of Rubens. [jurist, Aug 29 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
[link]
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Failing to google before baking will bring death to you and all who know you. |
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Drawing blood while replacing a computer component is a sign of good fortune. |
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It's bad luck to rub a [UnaBubba] the wrong way. Conversely, it's good luck to rub a [po] the right way. |
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Slowing down for a yellow light is bad luck - apparently. |
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It's good luck to pick up your feet when you cross the sound barrier. |
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It's bad luck to wash your PDA. |
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I remember seeing the sun when I was a child. I just googled for "sun," lo and behold, I was able to find it. |
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So, everyone's phone number is lucky. |
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My two (evil) black cats cross your path. |
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Rofl. Though I note there are some movies I have managed to watch in their entirety, but in no more than small snippets caught in random order while flipping through the endless reruns on HBO. I regard this as a sign of spending too much time watching TV. |
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This is a cute idea but I have to complain about number
15. I often buy cheap secondhand copies of books that I
own and enjoy. This allows me to lend these books to
friends and not worry too much about whether they
come back. |
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Might I suggest you call these "substitions"? |
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I'm skeptical you were actually rolling on the floor, Peter. In fact, dollars to doughnuts (why isn't there a game show called that?) I'd say anyone who has ever said they were rofl wasn't. |
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23) If you use AOL-speak on the Halfbakery, the leather-winged demon of the night hunts you down and eats your pancreas. |
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What's AOL-speak when it's at home? |
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(I'm kind of glad of my innocence and ignorance towards AOL here) |
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ur lucky!!!! u will rekognize it when u c it!!! |
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24) It's good luck if you dialed a wrong number and nobody answered, but you won't know it. |
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Unfortunately I cannot claim credit, which goes to Stephen William Rimmer of Alchemy Mindworks. |
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Step on a crack pipe, break your crack mother's back.
It's bad luck to put a bed on a hat.
If a visitor enters your home, it's a sign that you will soon have a bee. If you kill the visitor, you will have bad luck, or the bee will be unpleasant.
If you push a friend off a bridge into churning rapids hundreds of yards/metres below, you will never see each other again.
To drop a comb in a toilet while you are combing your hair is a sign of a coming disappointment.
A cricket in the house drives you insane.
Pick a dandelion that has gone to seed. Take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind. Count the seeds that remain on the stem. That is the number of refills of prescription-strength antihistamines you will have.
Throw back the first fish you catch then you'll be wish you hadn't believed that old wives tale that said you'd be lucky the whole day fishing.
It is bad luck to walk into a ladder. |
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Well, the leather-winged demon of the night is a recurring theme on Steve Rimmer's site as his instrument of vengeance. For instance, "Should you fail to register any of the evaluation software available through our web pages and continue to use it, be advised that a leather-winged demon of the night will tear itself, shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know that." and "Abuse of our e-mail resources may result in legal action or a leather-winged demon of the night dining on your pancreas." The site is worth visiting just for this sort of thing. |
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Yeah, me too. I searched for Rimmer and got a bunch of possibilities . . . |
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angel, such an incredible image. If you're even responsible for the pancreas bit, you have my unending respect. (And how often do you say that?) |
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If you repeat the same typo more than three times in the same document, you will receive bad news by email. |
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Never EVER EVER! under any circumstances trust sombody
with no eyebrows. |
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[po]: Thanks, that's the one. |
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Angel's anno reminded me of the impact that seeing Pieter Paul Ruben's "Prometheus Bound" (c.1612) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art had on me as a school child...Liver or pancreas, it makes one think twice about playing with fire.[link] (Strangely, I remember it being far more gruesome ...and more interestingly painted...than the image portrayed.) |
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It is bad luck to wear shoes umop apisdn |
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[Mephista] The link is there. One version of the painting is there. If you recall the Promethean story, then you know that the act of giving fire to mankind was the reason for Prometheus' expulsion from the Titan Cocktail Club and why Zeus decided to chain him to a couple of Caucasian rocks, whomp him silly, and feed him hallucinogens that made him think he was the daily luncheon special for his own private leather-winged demon. (Actually, I did take a bit of license with that last bit, but the rest is all true, I swear.) |
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Stand on your head, and you will see... |
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good luck to have an australian baby
bad luck to beat up the baby
good luck if you pin it on the babysitter, Mr Mephista
isn't bitter about being born with no eyebrows is he. |
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sorry ms Mephista, do you have eyebrows how do I know I
can trust you? |
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Tipping, is surely the greatest modern superstition of them all. Karmic balance, and all that... |
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That and hitting the wastepaper basket from > 10 feet. |
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I like Mephista's 'Nigeria' line. I suspect that it could be one of those things that passes into folklore as a byword for a futile and foolish enterprise as in...
"What are you doing there Bob?"
"Oh, nothing much. Just sending money to Nigeria."
I would also like to add "Never put a Spurs defender in your fantasy team" to the list. |
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idea with the word "charger" in it:- one anno by either blissmiss/po = a wish. two annos, one by bliss and one by po = a kiss. three annos, three by either blissmiss/po = a letter. four annos, two by bliss and two by po = something better. |
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It's good luck to send email,
and then immediately receive
email from that person,
before she or he got it
(e-crossed-in-the-mail). If
this happens you will get a
baked good you did not
expect. |
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If your baked potato is
slightly underdone in the
middle, a project you never
finished will come back to
haunt you. |
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It's good luck to take the
stairs instead of the
elevator. |
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It's good luck to find
someone else's original still
on the photocopier. It's bad
luck, of course, to forget
yours. If you find theirs
but also forget yours, you
will miss out on a chance to
eat pistachio ice cream. |
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If you see someone you don't
know in a store, and then you
go to another store and you
notice that same person, it
means a distant relative of
yours won a small sum in the
lottery. |
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It's bad luck to see a
picture of yourself as a
small child and not even
recognize which one in the
picture is you. |
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It's good luck if the last
squeeze of the toothpaste is
exactly one toothbrush-worth. |
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It's neither good nor bad
luck to find a bug in a beta
release. What did you
expect? |
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It's good luck to suddenly
realize a cognate or Latin
root of a word you've known
for years. If the sense
connecting the two also
occurs to you, it's very good
luck: you will be manage to
express something right the
first time, the next time
you want to. |
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It's good luck to discover a
forgotten compartment,
drawer, shelf, or built-in
container of any sort. |
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It's good luck to pet the
bookstore cat. Or any
working animal. |
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If the bookstore cat likes
you, you will buy a book
there, you will read the
book, and it will be good and
memorable. |
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It's not bad luck to find an
old t-shirt that obviously no
longer fits you. It's
annoying, but it's just the
way it is; it's not bad
luck. |
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It's not bad luck to find a
small amount of liquid in a
cup or bottle on your desk.
It's usually bad luck to
drink it, however. |
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If you find money left in a
vending machine, payphone,
laundromat machine, or video
game, the next person you
think of will call or email
you. |
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It's good luck if a co-worker
or friend suddenly remembers
you lent him money and wants
to repay you now before he
forgets again. Damned good
luck. |
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It's good luck if you bump
into an old co-worker from a
company you used to work for,
now working at your company. |
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If you break the first
wineglass of the set within
hours or days of taking it
home, it's actually good
luck; it will be a long time
before you break the others. |
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If a DMV or other official
photo of yours somehow
doesn't look that bad, you
will enjoy a bean dish of
some sort. |
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If you remember an old phone
number but can't remember
whose it was, you will feel
funny. |
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If you remember your first IP
address but can't remember
where you were living at the
time, it means you spend too
much time with computers. |
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It's good luck to buy a cute
little knapsack even though
you have plenty. You never
know. |
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It's good luck to be given a
pretty or arty box to take
home the wine in. Extra good
luck if it's not a wine box,
e.g. if they give you a Jim
Beam box. |
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If you're in the hardware
store and actually remember a
hardware item you've been
needing, of course it's good
luck. |
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If you see two cars of the
same make and model and color
within 60 seconds, and it's
not a car dealership or
something, it's good luck.
But if you see three cars of
the same make and model and
they're all black, someone
you know will have an
uninsured dental crisis. Or
poorly insured. |
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It's bad luck to get mange
from your pet. It's even
worse luck to give it to your
pet. What the hell's the
matter with you? |
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It's good luck to get a
company phone on your desk
that doesn't have a bunch of
half-ripped-off stickers from
previous use. If this
happens, someone will forgive
you a comment you made that
gave offense. |
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It's good luck to put the
water on the toothbrush
before the toothpaste. |
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It's bad luck to have a car
salesman ask if he can help
you. It's worse luck to have
the big-box home electronics
store person ask if he can
help you. It's good luck if
the office supply person asks
if he can help you. If the
small local harware store
person asks if he can help
you, it's neither good nor
bad luck, it's just why that
store is still your best bet
unless you're buying a whole
lot of whatever it is. |
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If your cat's ear starts to
smell funny, it means you
will see your vet soon. |
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It's good luck to have a
crummy job of some sort when
you're young. Builds
character. Gives you
complaining/smug rights
later. |
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If your company has more than
3 Dilberts posted per
employee, it will go under. |
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It's bad luck to make a cell
phone call from the bathroom
(public or private). It's
not bad luck to take a cell
phone call from the bathroom
(after all, how could they
know before they called?).
It may or may not be bad luck
to take an existing cell
phone call into the bathroom;
authorities differ on this
one; religions schism; Dear
Ann and Abby disagree from
beyond the grave. |
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It's good luck to inhale
deeply the scent of leather
from a leather goods shop,
fresh cut wood from a
lumberyard, construction
site, cabinet makers, etc.
It's not as much good luck to
breathe deeply of the flowers
in a flower shop, because
that's too obvious. Paint,
grout, or ceramics are an
acquired taste, so that's
extra good luck. |
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If you notice a slight
imperfection in the
wallboard, paint job,
baseboard, trim, etc., next
time someone is there you
will feel a terrible
compulsion to ask her if she
notices it too. |
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If you see a tree that has
grown around, over, under, or
through something, the next
glass of water you drink will
have a slight off-taste to
it. The one after that will
be OK though. |
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If you wash your car it will
rain. If it's literally
impossible for it to rain in
your time and place
(California summer) then bugs
and dirt will land on your
windshield, and your attempt
to use the windshield wiper
will result in ugly fluid
streaks on your car. This
will then be followed by a
vegetable of your choice, or
soup, or potato. |
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If you see a stroller for 2
kids, you will shortly see a
stroller for 3. Or someone
will see it and tell you
about it. |
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If you are flipping channels
and virtually every channel
is showing the same thing,
something big is up. |
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If the supermarket bagger
forgets to ask you "paper or
plastic", that will be the
one time you actually cared.
If however in this case you
end up getting the one you
wanted, you will have good
luck for an entire year. |
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If you get a bad haircut, you
will get over it. |
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If you forget to call that
East Coast number before 2,
they probably won't be
there. |
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If you are drinking milk and
somebody makes you laugh, you
will suddenly remember
everything about your
childhood, the good, the bad,
the mysterious, and now that
you understand it all you
can't go back and do it right
this time. |
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If you see a cute coffee cup
in a store and don't buy it,
you will regret not buying it
for a long time. |
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If you drop a toothpick, you
will drop something else
while trying to pick it up.
Then something else will
annoy you. |
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If you break the build, you
will have bad luck as soon as
the release engineer finds
you. |
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If your stock is up three
days in a row, you will
realize you're following the
market too closely, and
meaningless fluctuations are
nothing to get excited about,
yet you will still hope
someone asks you about it. |
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If you get lost in a
building, and you bump into
someone else and it turns out
he's lost too, the two of you
will become friends, and some
day one of you will save the
other's life. |
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If you realize you have to
turn the car around, and you
can't find a legal U-turn,
and you finally decide to
make a left into a parking
lot, and then you discover
it's almost impossible to get
back into traffic with the
subsequent right, because
traffic is too heavy or
people are too inconsiderate,
turn the radio on
immediately; if your favorite
song is playing, or one of
your favorites, then you will
have good luck for the rest
of the week. |
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If you discover someone you
know is originally from
Canada, you will enjoy a cold
beer. |
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If you hear a piece of music
in a movie, and later
encounter it playing from
someone's stereo, it's good
luck for, oh, an hour. |
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If you see three different
movies or books by Stephen
King, it's just par for the
course. |
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If a Stephen meets a Steven,
someone will make microwave
popcorn and you will smell it
and feel hungry, even though
you just ate not that long
ago. |
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If you discover you were born
out of wedlock, you will feel
strange and probably not tell
a whole lot of people. If
you discover you were merely
conceived out of wedlock, you
will giggle hysterically and
tell just about everyone. |
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If you find a really great
website before everyone else,
then everyone else does
discover it and it becomes
very big, it won't be as good
as it was before. |
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If you're adjusting the
screen window and it just
falls out and hits the
ground, you will stand there
aghast. |
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If you like Pepsi products
but the store has a sale on
Coke products, you will give
up and buy the Coke. This
will bring good luck to
someone you don't know and
almost certainly never will. |
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Three copies of the same
email (e.g. two arrive via
different aliases, the third
is forwarded to you FYI) is
bad luck for the rest of the
month. Plus whatever it is
the email was telling you,
you'll forget, even though it
was probably important. |
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If you eat chicken and it
tastes just like rattlesnake,
no one will believe you. |
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It's very good luck to find
a basically decent programming
language and environment that
anyone wants to pay you to
develop with. |
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If you remember that it's a
meteor shower and you see a
meteor or two, it's very good
luck; next time your toilet
valve needs replacing, it
will go smoothly. |
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It's good luck to eat a
deviled egg. |
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It's good luck to read all
the cartoons, witty sayings,
etc. posted on people's
doors on their offices.
If you see one that you
posted on your door too,
it's very good luck to
introduce yourself to
that person. |
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//Bad luck to meet an Australian//
Funny... I haven't been having much bad luck lately. |
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I think I'll change this one... all Aussies are lucky (they live
in Australia don't they). It is *very* bad luck to argue with
one, they may sic their pet Koala on you. |
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[jpk] it is bad luck to neglect your significant other |
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it is very bad luck to infer that someone is the backend of the panto horse |
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If you live out of the refuse bins from your local indian, you will have bad kurma. |
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When marrooned upon a deserted island, or lost in the wilderness, it is good luck to start a game of patience (ok, solitaire) on your laptop. |
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If you spend too much time on the internet, you may end up in half purgatory. |
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It is unlucky (and disturbing) to go into a womens public
bathroom and find the toilet seat up. It is even more
unlucky (and disturbing) if you are a man. |
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Its bad luck to run over a native animal, good luck to run
over a introduced species, extremely bad luck to run
over an endangered species, and if you run over somthing
that is meant to be extinct then you better hide under
your bed and not come out for several months. |
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+ for same reason 'Bubba stated. |
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If the bus is late and you light a cigarette, the bus will come. |
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If a door opens by itself and you are alone in the house, you will hide your head under the covers. |
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If the end of the sellotape isn't folded back when you find it, you will make a right mess of wrapping the present. |
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I'm pretty sure my phone number was once PI without the decimal, just thought it was very weird... |
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If your phone number appears as consecutive digits beginning at the (phone number)th digit of PI, then you will suffer from a too-cold milkshake. |
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It is bad luck if you have to use 'yards'. |
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It's bad luck when you use a leaf blower and the wind keeps on blowing in your direction. [-] |
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It's good luck when your JD & Coke goes down smoothly. [+] |
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It's neutral luck when you get a mediocre idea and post it on halfbakery. [] |
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Applications load and respond faster if you waggle the mouse. |
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If you click a dialog box by accident, then one corner of a hanging poster in your house (if you're at work) or at work (if you're in your house) will come loose. |
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[squeak] on some remote terminal served applications, this most definitely used to be the case. To conserve bandwidth, screen updates (animations etc) would only be sent while a user provided some suggestion that they were on the other side. Failure to move the mouse would make it look as though the whole thing had ground to a halt. |
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It's bad luck to be superstitious on a
Wednesday. |
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It's bad luck to try loading multiple websites at the same time. At least one of them will grind to a halt, and not load for the rest of your session. |
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It's good luck to say hello to someone you think is staring at you. It's bad luck to have to speak to someone you think is glaring at you. |
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If you go to school, and the class room smells musty, the teacher will be extra considerate, but may also smell musty outside the classroom. |
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If while playing a video game, or surfing the internet, you see an animal, and that same animal appears outside your window, you will stop everything and go admire the view for ten minutes. |
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If you dive up behind a slow moving truck or van, and they hit their brakes, you will have bad luck for the next half hour... or they will want to change lanes right in front of you. |
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It's bad luck to avoid crashing into a car that doesn't use it's turn sugnals. You will be karmically cursed to spend the next month dodging close calls with other cars that don't use their turn signals. |
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It's bad luck to crash your car into someone else. If they were at fault, they will have better insurance than you. |
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If you see a streetlight on the corner go out, you will have been planning on turning there, and will become slightly freaked out and paranoid for a few weeks. As soon as you forget about it all, you will give someone a ride to their home, and after you leave, you will see another streetlight go out on a corner where you were planning to turn. |
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If you are surfing the internet, and for any reason spot pornographic images of someone you once knew, you will later run into them, and have a very awkward conversation. If you end up sleeping with them, you will catch something, but if you do not, they will die before the end of the year. |
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I don't mean to kill the mood here, but isn't this just a list? I thought those things were against the rules. Some funny ideas thought. |
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Oh yeah. [marked-for-deletion] list. |
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As you come in for a landing in an airplane, if you spot an individual person just before touching down - a distinguishable person, not just a car - the conference will be interesting and your friends will be happy to see you. If, in contrast, all you see is little cars stuck in traffic, you will be ignored by all you meet, learn nothing of interest, and might as well not have come.
Either that, or your next picnic will be attacked by ants. |
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If you are using those urinals where the flush works on a timer, then if the flush starts while you're urinating, it heralds good luck for the remainder of the day. |
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When restaurant food is called "fare", it's usually boring. |
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Leap-seconds cause pandemics. |
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Like I've always told my kids, it's bad luck to believe
in bad luck. |
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If you find a horseshoe and put it in your pocket,
somewhere a horse will walk with a limp. |
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I anyone speaks the name of a fish out loud, three
fish puns must follow to prevent a month of rain. |
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