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Superstition
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Jonesey | Report | 1 Aug 2013 07:58 |
When I were a lad someone must have told me that if the first words you said on the first day of the month were "White Rabbits" then you would get a month of good luck. Wanting all the good luck that I could get I started doing just that and indeed over 60 years later I am still doing so. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 1 Aug 2013 08:51 |
The first written reference appears in a 1922 novel 'Solomon in all his Glory' by Robert Lynd: "Why," the man in the brown hat laughed at him, "I thought everybody knew 'Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit.' If you say 'Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit'—three times, just like that—first thing in the morning on the first of the month, even before you say your prayers, you'll get a present before the end of the month." |
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PollyinBrum | Report | 1 Aug 2013 09:00 |
AnnC It's the 1st of August today darling <3 |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 1 Aug 2013 09:18 |
you trying to start a row here ;-) |
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PollyinBrum | Report | 1 Aug 2013 09:20 |
Moi start a row. Never! however I have managed to finish several. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 1 Aug 2013 09:39 |
Thought you had to say it 3 times |
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Jonesey | Report | 1 Aug 2013 09:41 |
Thank you for that information Ann. |
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TheBlackKnight | Report | 1 Aug 2013 09:44 |
White Rabbits White Rabbits White Rabbits. Well somebody had too. :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 1 Aug 2013 10:06 |
I have never been sure of what colour I had to say. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 1 Aug 2013 10:31 |
pinch punch first day of the month AND no returns!!!! |
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Renes | Report | 1 Aug 2013 10:34 |
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Mayfield | Report | 1 Aug 2013 10:47 |
"A smack and a kick for being so quick" Sharron, Ann got the no returns in! ;-) |
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Sharron | Report | 1 Aug 2013 10:56 |
I told OH we were having a punch in the belly for afters the other day. He had no idea what I was talking about. |
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Mayfield | Report | 1 Aug 2013 10:58 |
Oh dear, reminds me I must do something about my jelly belly :-( |
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