Please explain superstition and RW/UW

[chivo]

This weekend me and my lady were finishing off one of the bottles of Petron Tequila Dave (Maxxum) was so kind to bring to me on his last visit...thanks again Dave if you're out there .

Well as I poured the last drops into the glass, I proceeded to try to put the empty bottle back on the table and was of course abruptly stopped and told that all my money would disappear should the empty bottle somehow touch the table.

Lucky for me she was there to save me from this horrible fate :selfharm:. Are these women great or what?

chivo

ps Serebro, I just want to say that you look great in that picture on your avatar. Your best photo to date. ciao

[ScottinCrimea]

There is the belief that if you step in dog doodoo you will come into money.  So now you all know why we named our new puppy "Rich"

[Kuna]

Sorry for resurrecting this thread... but it's kinda fun isn't it???

Recent superstitions I've become VERY aware of...

1) A couple can't be married one month before January 7 (Christmas) or Easter... Bad luck apparently!   

2) You DEFINITELY shouldn't marry in a leap year... Very bad luck!  When I asked what would happen if someone DID marry in a leap year I got a really strange look and the answer, "Everyone would know they are stranger".

Knocking on the door is a constant thing for us...  Either one of us is always forgetting something... the empty bottle isn't much of an issue anymore because I remember NOT to put it on the table...  but when I'm feeling happy I still get tripped up by the whistling indoors thing.  btw... I've found out it's OK to whistle inside someone elses house but not your own... oh... and whistling indoors extended to your car... but you guessed it... you CAN whistle inside of someone elses car!

 

[Simoni]

Likewise, it's a big BAD to put keys on the table! 

[2tallbill]

Last night we had a new moon. In a similar meaning, Marina told me I should "cut my hair and nails" because they would grow faster."

Actually my Grandfather (who is a wheat farmer and cattle rancher) believes in this as well. He only seed his crops in a growing moon and never in a decreasing moon.

It could possibly have some science in it if you look at how the moons gravity affects things like tides etc. He swears that the seed will root down (with poor growing results) instead of pushing up through the soil.

He would not try to argue this about his hair or nails or something else.

[2tallbill]

I copied these from a previous post made by Gator in a different thread some are not necessarily superstitions


Ice in a drink can make you seriously ill. 
So does air conditioning. 
It is healthy to eat lard. 
Leaving an empty wine bottle on the table will make you poor. 
America did not defeat the Nazis. 
It is necessary to buy fresh bread every day.

[SANDRO43]

Actually my Grandfather (who is a wheat farmer and cattle rancher) believes in this as well. He only seed his crops in a growing moon and never in a decreasing moon.
It could possibly have some science in it if you look at how the moons gravity affects things like tides etc

Here the new moon is considered an unfavourable period for working wine (e.g. bottling it), while the full moon is OK.

Popular wisdom (not superstition) often has some scientific foundation. I recall that many years ago the USAF funded a study for the collection of local meteo-lore. In our case, we have a saying linking the moon and expected weather :
- Cerchio vicino, pioggia lontana; cerchio lontano, pioggia vicina (close halo, far rain; large halo, close rain), which is based on simple diffraction (humidity content of air, or higher/lower/thinner/thicker cloud strata).

The Doppler effect may also be involved in:
- Rosso di sera, bel tempo si spera (red sunset, you can expect fair weather)

[I/O]

(1) Don't look a gift horse in the mouth?

The only (Near) accurate way to gauge a horses age (Without prior knowledge) is to check it's teeth. It is far more complex than the length of same. There is various growth and wear rings which gradually appear or disappear at different ages. One who knows what they are looking for can read these fairly accurately up till about the 20 year mark and then it is pretty much guess work after that.

The meaning of the saying is partly British in origins and it equates to, if someone gives you a horse, accept the gift without question and don't be so rude as to check the age before deciding whether or not you will accept it. A gift is a gift, accept it with gratitude and a smile regardless and worry about the consequences later.

I/O

[SANDRO43]

The only (Near) accurate way to gauge a horses age

... and an RWD member's age, the antiquity of the posts he quotes (yours is almost two-months old ).