have we ever really seen...

Someone throwing a shoe at a mewling cat at night?

Someone killing two birds with one stone?

A person throwing salt over his shoulder?


(add your own) rettyplease:

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Actually, yes

I throw salt over my shoulder


'To make an omelette you've got to break a few eggs'... yeah, right

 

Over the years I’ve seen it done on several occasions from Galloping Gourmet and Julia Child to Rachel Ray



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Have we ever seen a gourmet gallop?

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Not Walking Under A Ladder....

I Did This On Purpose Once, And I Lived To Tell The Tale....



Cheers Glen.

 

As the crow flies....I personally find they are just as directionally challenged as I am when navigating.

 

I'm Irish, and was raised by Irish parents so... all that traditional stuff applies to my everyday life pretty much.
Knock on wood, salt over shoulder, watch for the black cat crossing, never start a journey on a Sunday, walking under a ladder, breaking a mirror, etc.

 

me too. that and knocking on wood.

 

I once woke up drunk literally between a rock and a hard place.

 

Lol sounds like you'd be interesting to watch cook.

Yes I have thrown salt over my shoulder just because.

 

I put a hickey on "the neck of the woods".

 

I always touch wood, and I have been really lucky!

In fact I am starting to believe I am a block head after all, I touch me noggin' when there isn't any actual wood around

seems to work just as well

 

Sounds like you'd be handy to have around
I could knock on wood and tell you that you could have had a V8 all at the same time!

 

I've opened umbrellas indoors a few times. Based on some of the luck I've had, I think it was a bad idea. lol

 

Now that's funny.

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Agreed, i can't imagine how one could make an omellete without breaking any eggs... how else do you get it out the shell?

 

I usually knock on wood with my fingers crossed at the same time....it's a powerful combination.

 

my mom had an absolute paranoia about laying hats on beds.
considering as how she's now 91 and still very much alive,
my dad was around the age i am now when he kicked off,
and well, on the face of it, physically, it seems like a completely silly thing,
but you know, symbols affect the mind and the mind affects the health of the body,
so who knows.

she used to say "knock on wood" too. i don't think she believed in anything to do with the phrase's actual origin, it was just a kind of ritual phrase in and of itself, completely disconnected from anything other then the idea of warding off bad luck.

likewise, of course, mazel-toff, if someone dropped or broke something.

 

haha, agreed

 

I have a thing about blessing people who sneeze.