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[stargazergal]

Ha ha !  I just so happened to walk under a ladder today.... and thought for

just a moment...... should I have done that?

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@Texasmouse wrote:

I never thought I was but I find myself not opening an umbrella in the house or walking under a ladder.  I know that tomorrow is October 1st but I won't flip my calendar over to October before I leave the office today because someone once told me it was bad luck to change your calendar before the month actually starts, so I'll wait until I come in on Monday, October 3rd, to flip the page to October.  Silly, huh? 

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[sidsmom]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@sidsmom wrote:

Full Moon 

Many talk about the 'lunar effect' of a full moon.

Nothing documented or studied, 

but as someone working in customer service for 30 yrs.

I could document more cranky calls during the Full Moon phase.

Guaranteed.  So yes, I'm superstitious. 

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@sidsmom

Nothing documented or studied ... who told you that?   

If you think CS is tough, you should check out police stations and emergency rooms during the full moon!  Yikes!

Supposedly the correlation is that the human body is about 80% water .... similar to the earth's surface being 80% water.  The moon has a gravitational pull strong enough for them to be able to document times the tides go in and out, and the pull also affects the human body as well.

Besides ..... where else could they have gotten the word LUNA-tic ?

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@Tinkrbl44

"Nothing documented or studied"....another way of saying, there's no proof the human body affected by the Moon.  

Who told me that?  

Maybe we need to say, "Who told you that it officially does?"  

The Lunar Effect is just a theory which, over generations, has never panned out to hard, documented, yes-there's-scientific-documentation.  Believe me, if it WAS an official thing, someone (readoctors/Pharma) would monetize it.  Everyone would have another layer of excuse that Full Moon is the reason for their Modern Days Illnesses & people would be rushing to their Doctor to get Meds for their "Full Moon Days."  Doctors would make more money; Pharma would make more money...if it was true. 

My guy is a Police Officer, so I know first hand of the crazies who come out during the Full Moon.  It's very much talked about.  I also have a good friend who, back in the 80's, worked the ER Trauma at Parkland Hospital here in Dallas...which is the Public Hospital.   Stories she could tell...and she talked about the Full Moon. She was the one that introduced me to that theory. 

But it does that make it true?

Of course not. 

That's why several of us mentioned it here...as a Superstition.

[tends2dogs]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@sidsmom wrote:

Full Moon 

Many talk about the 'lunar effect' of a full moon.

Nothing documented or studied, 

but as someone working in customer service for 30 yrs.

I could document more cranky calls during the Full Moon phase.

Guaranteed.  So yes, I'm superstitious. 

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@sidsmom

Nothing documented or studied ... who told you that?   

If you think CS is tough, you should check out police stations and emergency rooms during the full moon!  Yikes!

Supposedly the correlation is that the human body is about 80% water .... similar to the earth's surface being 80% water.  The moon has a gravitational pull strong enough for them to be able to document times the tides go in and out, and the pull also affects the human body as well.

Besides ..... where else could they have gotten the word LUNA-tic ?

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@Tinkrbl44  I agree,  I wouldn't consider this superstition. Superstition is tied to witchcraft and omens.  It goes against natural science. The lunar things will fall into natural science, I believe. 

[sidsmom]

[candys mine]

Okay so I have one for you all,  An older gentleman at my work always says " Rabbit Rabbit"  to the first person he meets at the office on the first day of the month.  Anyone else do that? 

[sidsmom]

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@candys mine wrote:

Okay so I have one for you all,  An older gentleman at my work always says " Rabbit Rabbit"  to the first person he meets at the office on the first day of the month.  Anyone else do that? 

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That's a new one so I researched.

Here's a NPR article about it.  Lucky for the rest of the month!

Funny.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=248041250

[candys mine]

@sidsmom thanks for the link. Well, rabbits DO seem to increase rather quickly.  I guess it's an invoking the abundance sort of thing.    Kinda sweet that he's spreading the luck.  

[Texasmouse]

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@sidsmom wrote:

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@candys mine wrote:

Okay so I have one for you all,  An older gentleman at my work always says " Rabbit Rabbit"  to the first person he meets at the office on the first day of the month.  Anyone else do that? 

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That's a new one so I researched.

Here's a NPR article about it.  Lucky for the rest of the month!

Funny.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=248041250

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@sidsmom

Wow... that's a new one to me! Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.😃

[Mary Bailey]

I just remembered a couple of "things" MIL used to say (and I don't why)....

Don't have more than one clock in a room,

Gargoyles (as long ornaments or decorations) are bad luck.

(we had one and got rid of it. Our luck changed to good luck. DH said never tell his Mom)

I have wind chimes in front and back yards.  I read somewhere it keeps evil spirits away.  I've had wind chimes ever since I lived at my parents.

and since da (bad news) Bears won last week when I wore my Bears tshirt  I'll have to wear it for every game. Until they blow it again anyway.

[luvmydoggies]

I'm not superstitious but this thread was interesting. thanks!