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Why is it Lucky
jaymez Started conversation Oct 15, 2003
I was shopping with the family on Monday in Scotland. As in most towns there was plenty of birds flying around, looking for food and shall we say “relieving” themselves in the air!
Having spent much of the day dodging these dropping the inevitable happened and I was shat upon!
My family tried to ease my suffering by trying to convince me that this was luckily through a stream of tears of laughter. Now I am not the smartest man in the world but I do believe that I was in fact VERY UNLUCKY! Although I will be putting the lottery on tonight just incase.
But this did get me thinking where did this come from? Can anyone shed any light on this?
Why is it Lucky
Trin Tragula Posted Oct 15, 2003
No idea where it comes from in terms of the logic involved, but I've always thought it was a French superstition.
Why is it Lucky
Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Jul 11, 2011
Sounds to me like a strategy for loved ones trying to console the victim.
Why is it Lucky
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jul 11, 2011
I heard a similar thing on British TV: "muck for luck" when you step in some dogshit.
Why is it Lucky
SiliconDioxide Posted Jul 11, 2011
You were very lucky that elephants have (almost) never learnt to fly.
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