Chance Wednesday
Is Life always fun and games?
Is there such a thing as Luck?
Are people (some / certain) lucky (Lucy Luciano)?
Do some people get luckier by practicing more?
Strandman in the spirit of adventure delves into the deep and rich vein of Luck.
Luck is a chance happening of fortune. Luck is often regarded as a superstition, but it can be interpreted in many ways.
Strandman wants to know all the things that are considered lucky or unlucky.
I will then look for them on Fleet Street and Strand and keep a running log. Red if done (+2 points) and -2 for anything unlucky:
See running total at bottom of how Strandman is doing!
Lucky things
- Finding a penny (coin) with heads facing up [ done Thursday 3.11.06 ]
- Horseshoes (correct way up please) [police horses maybe?]
- Four-leaf clovers [not likely on Strand]
- A rabbit's foot [I will look, I promise]
- Ladybirds [Summer time only]
- Elephant with the trunk pointing up [Oh come on..]
- The number Seven [done number 7 Fleet St]
- Knocking on wood [done]
- Crossing one's fingers [typing is nightmare]
- A tea stalk standing upward on the bottom of a cup [?]{ok, ok]
- A bird defecating on one's head [Waiting under pigeons]
- The Number 13 [looking for a good one]
- Beach paintings at the NG [Done]
To be added to…
Unlucky
- Friday the 13th [done]
- The number 13 (Many buildings skipped 13 when numbering their floors for this reason) [nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 8/11/06 added to minus side]]
- A black cat crossing one's path [nope]
- Stepping on a crack (the mother's back will break; rhymed as "step on a crack, break your mother's back' [oh no!]
- Breaking a mirror (seven years bad luck) [not yet]
- Spilling over salt (When salt was more precious than gold, if one spilt some it was believed to mean that a demon was trying to steal one's salt, but by appeasing it with a little salt over the left shoulder, the demon would leave) [don’t use salt]
- Putting a hat on a bed [no hats for me]
- Opening an umbrella indoors [not yet]
- Killing a ladybird [Murderer! No]
- Killing a spider in one's home [ I love them I do]
- Walking underneath a ladder (when being hanged, the condemned man would often be made to pass underneath a ladder before climbing it and onto the gallows) [being very careful]
- Saying "good luck" [ Rats! Did it today]
- Replying "thank you" to someone wishing good luck [no one has!]
- Putting shoes on a table. [Yuck- just unhealthy!]
- Saying "good luck" to an actor going onstage (the preferred expression is: Break a leg) [I know no actors]
- Sinistrality (being left-handed) [I am not]
- Seeing one magpie [Salute!]
- A bird flies into one's window [No]
- Cutting your nails at night [No definetly not]
- Five leaf clovers [No chance!]
- Turning a horse shoe upside down is said to drain the good luck from it and bring about bad luck [Still looking for horses]
- Avoiding eye contact when toasting with another person (7 years of bad sex in Mexico) [Will remember that]
Sure we can add to this…
Good luck points: 10 10
SM is: +4 +2 (as of 11am)
Hurrah! Off to the Casino…maybe
SM
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rsiqueen (8.11.06 11:04) Thinking Kylie thinking Lucky Lucky lucky |
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resting2987 (8.11.06 14:23) What are the Chance of that? |
