# Rabbit rabbit! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503 "2009-01-01T20:28:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/1 "2009-01-01T20:28:57Z")
> **[Rabbit rabbit rabbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_rabbit)** > > "Rabbit rabbit rabbit" is a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good luck for the rest of it. > The exact origin of the superstition is unknown, though it was recorded in Notes and Queries as being said by children in 1909: > My two daughters are in the habit of saying "Rabbits!" on the first day of each month. The word must be spoken aloud, an... Anyone else manage to get it this year? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/2 "2009-01-01T20:34:15Z")
No, but I remember hearing about this as a little kid and always meaning to try it, but always forgetting. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/3 "2009-01-01T20:40:34Z")
Yup. I picked it up in college from a friend, and I still try to do it each month. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/4 "2009-01-01T21:01:49Z")
Never heard of it before. Sounds like typical [devilbunny](http://www.devilbunnies.org/faq/storytime.html) propaganda, though. Encouraging magical thinking, encouraging letting down our guard of skepticism, encouraging thinking of rabbits as cute and harmless and bringers of good… so the Fluffy Hordes of Bunny Evil can go for our throats. I’ll have to use it in a story. What? ---
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/5 "2009-01-01T21:07:49Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > No, but I remember hearing about this as a little kid and always meaning to try it, but always forgetting. I picked it up by growing up watching Nickelodeon. The first of the month, they would remind you to say “rabbit rabbit” at the beginning of the month for good luck. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/6 "2009-01-01T22:32:07Z")
\*\*Attacklad \*\*woke me up saying something like “I can’t believe I’ve been asleep since last year” to **Ms. Attack.** I remembered the rabbit thing, went into **Attacklass’** room and slowly said “Rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit”, by which time she had woken up enough to say it also. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/7 "2009-01-02T01:24:17Z")
Rabbits & hares, apples & pears! I’m more a fan of pinch punch first of the month - it’s got actions! ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/8 "2009-01-02T01:30:16Z")
I said White Rabbit. That’s the way I heard it and that it was supposed to be the first thing you say on the first of the month. Do I get bonus points for remembering on New Year’s Day? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/9 "2009-01-02T01:48:10Z")
> [@Influential\_Panda](#): > > [Rabbit rabbit rabbit - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_rabbit) > > Anyone else manage to get it this year? \ “One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small…” What? ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/10 "2009-01-02T02:18:00Z")
At the school I went to, each class in the younger grades, up until 4th grade was associated with an animal. So 1st grade we were the Tabby Cats, and whatever, Anyway, in third grade, my teacher was Ms. Falls, wonderful woman. That year we were frogs. She taught us to say ribbit, ribbit But I never remember to say either one. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-rabbit/479503/11 "2009-01-02T07:28:13Z")
Until someone said “rabbit” just after the ball dropped last night, I’d never heard of this before.