# Make up a cool superstitious belief. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474 "2010-03-05T22:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/21 "2010-03-06T18:11:35Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > It’s bad luck to be on fire. Nonsense! Everyone knows it’s good luck to be on fire because [ninjas can’t catch you if you’re on fire](http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p15). > [@cmyk](#): > > If you receive a club sandwich, and it has no frilly toothpick stabbed in it, this means the turkey is really the bacon, the ham is really the turkey, and the bacon is really the flesh from a thousand homogenized corpses. mmmm… corpse bacon… :drool: Sorry, I blacked out for a minute there. Anyway, everyone knows it’s bad luck to break a mirror. But if you break a mirror _with another mirror_ then it’s such bad luck that you torn apart by angry, steel-clawed rodents. Then, after you die, no one will cry because they know what you did and that you just got what was coming to you. ---
**Author:** ![Meow\_Max](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Meow\_Max](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meow_Max)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/22 "2010-03-06T21:06:04Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Anyway, everyone knows it’s bad luck to break a mirror. But if you break a mirror _with another mirror_ then it’s such bad luck that you torn apart by angry, steel-clawed rodents. Then, after you die, no one will cry because they know what you did and that you just got what was coming to you. But if you break two mirrors SIMULTANEOUSLY with a third mirror while hopping up and down on one leg and singing “The Philosopher’s Song”, you will end up having such incredibly good luck, that the universe will implode, because all of the luck will have been sucked out of it. So, don’t do that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/23 "2010-03-06T21:17:18Z")
An update of one; If you step on a crack, your children will smoke it. Sneezing is caused by the stupid in your head trying to get out and infect others. When people around you sneeze, you can counteract this by saying “Einstein!” ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/24 "2010-03-06T21:21:09Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Nonsense! Everyone knows it’s good luck to be on fire because [ninjas can’t catch you if you’re on fire](http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p15). > > mmmm… corpse bacon… :drool: > > Sorry, I blacked out for a minute there. > > Anyway, everyone knows it’s bad luck to break a mirror. But if you break a mirror _with another mirror_ then it’s such bad luck that you torn apart by angry, steel-clawed rodents. Then, after you die, no one will cry because they know what you did and that you just got what was coming to you. Are the steel-clawed rodents of an …unusual… size, perhaps? The reflections you see in a mirror are _NOT_ actually reflections, you’re seeing into a parallel universe that’s almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ours ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/25 "2010-03-07T01:34:15Z")
Your first time voting is very important. If the guy you vote for wins, you’ll continue to voe for winners. If you vote for the loser, you’ll keep voting for losers. The magnitude of the effect depends on how passionate you are about your choice. It’s less apparent if you’re completely apathetic, or you think both guys would be okay. By this standard, I’m destined to be on the losing side for slighty over half of all subsequent elections. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/26 "2010-03-07T02:10:08Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > you can compress files on a recordable optical disc by grabbing the disc by one corner and shaking really hard Ha! I know this one is false because circles don’t have corners! But, if you have sex twice in the first week of a month, you will have good luck through the rest of that calendar page. The quantity of the luck increases with the amount of sex in that first week. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/27 "2010-03-07T09:56:15Z")
Girls you can choose the sex of your future baby by gently cupping your partners testicles and at the point of his climax pull down and twist to the left for a boy or right for a girl. Catholic girls, Saying Hail Mary’s out loud during sex is a church sanctioned and permitted form of birth control. If you go into your bathroom and notice a red tooth brush and green toothbrush in the same cup then your grandmother will die that day. ( if the bristles are head down in the holder it means your granddad will croak!) If you see a heavily pregnant woman walking down the street you should run up to her and mark a large “X” on her belly with white chalk. This will ensure that you don’t lose your house keys that day. When using an ATM machine you should stand on one foot to ensure the ATM doesn’t swallow your card. ( true! ) If sat on an airplane tightly holding the arm of the next passenger so that your fingernails are almost piercing my skin whilst muttering oh god oh god don’t let me die! will guarantee the passing turbulence will continue forever! ( you know who you are bitch!!) Actually all but one of these superstitions I have witnessed in action. Good thread! ---
**Author:** ![Marienee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Marienee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marienee)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/28 "2010-03-07T11:24:04Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > If you are in a car or a bus and you pass a cemetery you must hold your breath until you are past it. Penalties for failing to do so are kind of ambiguous. > . We must be around the same age/demographic as I remember that one, though I understand that the penalty for breathing as you pass a cemetery is that you will be buried there. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/29 "2010-03-07T11:27:59Z")
Stretching your skin on a regular basis prevents wrinkles. When you aren’t doing anything else, make sure to pull and stretch your skin as much as possible. If you squeeze your head hard enough, you’ll shorten the distance between brain cells and you can think faster. Pressing with the heels of your hands on the temples works best since they are softer. Faith healing actually works, as long as both sides in the process have faith. However, any genuine practitioners are quietly assassinated by the medical industry and replaced by frauds. So; make sure that you choose a faith healer who is obscure enough to probably not have been targeted yet. If you don’t get any better, he is a medical industry pawn; for your own safety, pretend you haven’t noticed anything but avoid him in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/30 "2010-03-07T13:42:38Z")
You are born with a finate amount of dye in your body. When it runs out, your hair turns grey. (Does this count as supersticious?). Rubbing a bald irishman’s head with guiness summons leprechauns. This cannot be verified scientifically, as the leprechuns can only be seen by the summner. ---
**Author:** ![figure9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/31 "2010-03-07T13:50:49Z")
If you ever have the thought that you left your stove on, your stove will automatically turn itself on. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/32 "2010-03-07T13:51:53Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > Looking in a mirror will make you cross-eyed. This can be prevented by regular masturbation. But, masturbating in front of a mirror, paradoxically, improves your eyesight. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/33 "2010-03-07T17:15:27Z")
> [@manila](#): > > Actually all but one of these superstitions I have witnessed in action. Which one? ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/34 "2010-03-07T22:30:38Z")
it was actually the chalk mark on the pregnant chick that was slightly incorect. I met my main girlfriend at her work to take her for lunch. She worked at a “boutique front of store bakery” In other words it was an open kitchen cum store sort of thing. As we were walking across the car park she noticed a huge pregnant girl and ran over to her to greet her and touch her belly. But she still had flour on her hands and left a big mark on the poor startled young woman’s stomach! When we got back to her apartment to do the dirty deed we noticed her house keys still in the door! Only in Manila! ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/35 "2010-03-07T22:39:39Z")
If you tickle a baby’s feet, it will cause them to stutter (the baby not the feet). Oh wait, my grandma actually believed that one… ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/36 "2010-03-08T04:26:15Z")
If you see a horned owl on some March Saturday, come April a loved one will move far away. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/37 "2010-03-08T06:08:17Z")
My ex claimed that if you hear a sudden ringing noise in your ears it means a UFO is flying directly overhead. A friend in the construction business says that if you drop a wrench, or other heavy tool, and it strikes an Italian, you can count on getting rain within 24 hours. Not exactly on point, but my father who once worked on high power lines for the LA water and power department said that if you dropped anything from a power pole the only correct warning to those below was to yell “HEADACHE!” ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/38 "2010-03-08T11:13:34Z")
I believe that comfortable pants are directly related to the expansion of my waist size. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/39 "2010-03-08T13:10:14Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > My ex claimed that if you hear a sudden ringing noise in your ears it means a UFO is flying directly overhead. So _that’s_ what it is? Thank you, thank you, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-a-cool-superstitious-belief/531474/40 "2010-03-08T14:38:12Z")
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