My sibs and I always greet one another with this on November 1. What’s up. We can’t remember where if came from, but we’re thinking its literary. Anyone know the expresion “Rabbits, Rabbits” on the first. Cheers!
No idea!! But what a fantastic chance to be the first to welcome you here to the boards and horrify you with my own little rabbit story:
Found a damn jackrabbit eating my expensive trees that I had worked extremly hard to plant and get to grow. I quickly deciced that death was the only recourse for his transgressions. I had to chase this bugger all over 2 acres, while shooting him with a BB gun to slow him up (aim for the eyes!!). The stupid varmint actually escaped the fenced-in area, only to take refuge against my garage, where I was able to corner him and beat him to death with a nine-iron. Or was it a pitching wedge? Not sure anymore, but that was the last time he ate one of my trees, and I haven’t seen a jackrabbit in the yard since! A successful deterent!
Anyway, Welcome!
[sub]What was the question?[/sub]
With all the trainwrecks out there, why is it you never see a train junkyard?
UPDATE: I saw a train junkyard last weekend in Roseville, Ca.!!
Hi Snowglobe. This is actually being discussed in this thread but no one seems to know the origin there either.
Welcome to the boards.
I’d never heard of that before, but perhaps I’ll have a chance to try it this year, since there’s a woman in my building who has two rabbits that she carries out to a pen on the front lawn every evening.
Thanks! What a relief that you are all so kind. I defected from the Lonely Planet board because it was getting mean (and stale) I think I’ll like it here.
From Globalphyscics.com:
“…the following belief is common in many parts of Great Britain, with local variants: To secure good luck of some kind, usually a present, one should say ‘Rabbits’ three times just before going to sleep on the last day of the month, and then ‘Hares’ three times on waking the next morning”
From 1922 comes this exerpt from a speech "Coming on to midnight, gentlemen, he said:
‘I hope everybody here will remember to say ‘Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit’ first thing in the morning."
Hey, I thought rabbit was for night, hare was for morning! Well, we certainly can’t leave it that simple - from 1953 comes this published bit of folklore:
“On the first day of the month when you wake up in the morning shout ‘White Rabbit’ and when you go to bed at night shout ‘Black Rabbit’ and you will have good luck.” Aha ! - it’s the colour that counts!
From 1982:
“The first words you say for a lucky month are ‘White Rabbits.’ If you can remember to say that twelve times a year, you’ll have a very lucky year…”
Notice the plural, rabbits - multiply the good luck? And, what do you know - I wonder how many rabbits we need for the coming millennium. Maybe we should start shouting now."
StG
That should be “globalpsychics.com”
StG