# Test out the power of positive thought, prayer, whatever... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416 "2008-05-23T21:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416/21 "2008-05-25T22:06:46Z")
I guess my prayer was retroactive, because I just read the thread now. Hoohah! ---
**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:** [May 25, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416/22 "2008-05-25T22:14:27Z")
Yay! Sometimes we need an excuse like that to Deep Clean[sup]TM[/sup] our apartments. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416/23 "2008-05-25T22:22:21Z")
I did the same thing once - ended up having to fly from Dublin to London and do the same-day passport thing so I could attend the Hong Kong handover the next day. Expensive nightmare. Two years later I was moving house and found the old one in a hardback copy of _Keep the Aspidistra Flying_ by George Orwell. I had been using it as a bookmark, and it showed that I had never got beyond page 22. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416/24 "2008-05-25T22:29:39Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I did the same thing once - ended up having to fly from Dublin to London and do the same-day passport thing so I could attend the Hong Kong handover the next day. Expensive nightmare. Two years later I was moving house and found the old one in a hardback copy of _Keep the Aspidistra Flying_ by George Orwell. I had been using it as a bookmark, and it showed that I had never got beyond page 22. [/QUOTE] See post 2. It’s good advice! That’s why I just fold over the pages. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416/25 "2008-05-26T07:29:42Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] See post 2. It’s good advice! That’s why I just fold over the pages. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, I missed that! Clearly I’m not the first idiot to have done this, then. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416/26 "2008-05-26T08:15:59Z")
I once had a year when I didn’t know what I did with my weekly, money just seemed to walk away. Then next year I reread all my books 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416/27 "2008-05-26T15:36:12Z")
Speaking from experience, only panic can come from even for an instant using your paycheck as a bookmark in a library book. (I managed to get the check back. And only once the crisis had been averted did the librarian laugh at me.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-out-the-power-of-positive-thought-prayer-whatever/450416.md?page=1)