# Rabbit Rabbit **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934 "2003-10-01T16:03:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CinnamonGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@CinnamonGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/1 "2003-10-01T16:03:26Z")
Does anyone else say “rabbit rabbit” as the first utterance of each new month? Anyone know the origins of this custom? ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/2 "2003-10-01T16:17:31Z")
Don’t know the origins, but I’ve heard about it all my life. But the way it’s been taught to me, it can’t just be your first utterance; it has to be your first utterance before your feet touch the floor in the morning. It’s tough to remember to do. I manage to pull it off maybe two or three times a year. (Didn’t remember this morning). Oh, and it’s “rabbit rabbit rabbit.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/3 "2003-10-01T16:58:46Z")
Never heard of such! Must be regional, maybe generational, but this is the first I ever even knew such a thing existed. It does remind me of the thing of lifting your feet when you cross railroad tracks, or putting your feet out in front of you when you cross a state line. It makes me wonder if some of these things can be traced to a specific place and time. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/4 "2003-10-01T17:49:46Z")
Or holding your breath when you go through a tunnel? Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Huh. Cool! ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/5 "2003-10-01T17:54:37Z")
In the north of England some people do this, but I thought it was ‘White rabbits!’. ---
**Author:** ![pearl1012](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@pearl1012](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pearl1012)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/6 "2003-10-01T17:58:37Z")
when I was kid I remember other kids punching people’s arms on the 1st of the month, and shouting ‘white rabbit’. Like ‘pinch, punch, first of the month’. Not a clue why though (I’m from south-east England by the way). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/7 "2003-10-01T17:59:54Z")
About all I can think of involving rabbits (beyond the fact that they breed quickly) is that their feet are lucky to everybody but them. And that bit with the rabbit lady in _Roger & Me_. ---
**Author:** ![CinnamonGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@CinnamonGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/8 "2003-10-01T18:35:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pearl1012 \* > \*\*when I was kid I remember other kids punching people’s arms on the 1st of the month, and shouting ‘white rabbit’. Like ‘pinch, punch, first of the month’. Not a clue why though (I’m from south-east England by the way). \*\* Well, that’s interesting - I think we’re getting closer to some sort of origin anyway. Thanks for the post. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/9 "2003-10-01T18:52:52Z")
rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit. mushroom mushroom! sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/10 "2003-10-01T19:06:34Z")
We do it - and try to be the first in the family to say it. **Mrs. D** got me this a.m. Drat! ---
**Author:** ![CinnamonGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@CinnamonGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/204934/11 "2003-10-01T19:31:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dinsdale \* > \*\*We do it - and try to be the first in the family to say it. > **Mrs. D** got me this a.m. > Drat! \*\* Any idea _why_ you do it? Where’d you learn it? Where are you from? Is it just a southern thing?