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12-01-2004, 06:04 AM
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oooooo ... Spoooky !
I collect books ... and have a number of signed books by Canadian authors most of you probably havent heard of.
A few years ago i found a kids book by Mordicai Richler ..signed. Not long after i bought it he died. I found a cookbook by Al Waxmans wife .. not only did she sign it - but so did he. He died. I picked up a Timothy Findley novel - 1st edition hardcover called Headhunter .. signed. He died a week later. (i'm not making this up) Last month i found a signed Pierre Burton. On the news today i heard that he died yesterday of heart failure. so .. anyone here supersticious ? If you get published Vod .. will you send me a signed copy ? (maybe it only works on Canadian authors :) 
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12-01-2004, 06:16 AM
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Nope. :D
My grandmother is French Canadian, and her husband's (my grandfather) family was Canadian. I would have a stroke and lose the use of the middle side of my body, so no thank you :D
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12-01-2004, 06:28 AM
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Re: oooooo ... Spoooky !
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you Omen.
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12-01-2004, 06:32 AM
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so basically .. you're a closet canadian ?
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12-01-2004, 06:36 AM
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Actually, we HAD a 'Superstitions' thread here a while back, but a flame war erupted in the middle of it, and the whole damned thing got deleted...Can you even IMAGINE such a thing?:rolleyes:
Anyway...My Grandmother was German AND Cherokee, So...A huge overabundance of superstition in my family tree...She absolutely REFUSED to get out of bed on Friday The Thirteenth...And, she was born with 6 toes on each foot, which is supposed to be indicative of a witch or psychic, she DID claim to have premonitions as well...So...Yeah...I've probably heard of pretty much every superstition, and there are SOOO many of them in SOOO many different cultures...Most of them, conflct...Much of what WE consider to be 'unlucky', other cultures consider 'good luck'...ie: Black cats, etcetera...
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12-01-2004, 06:41 AM
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Re: Re: Re: oooooo ... Spoooky !
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yeah, sometimes things like this seam pretty creepy, especially as you say you found old stuff, and then hear that said person just recently died. this sounds weird too, a few times I've been thinking about stuff or a person I aint seen in ages, and a couple of days later, when these thoughts have gone from my mind, then out of pure coincidence that thing is found, or the person who I was thinking about, is sitting across the room, right in the same damn bar as me.... freeks me out sometimes.
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12-01-2004, 06:41 AM
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Weird... (wrong thread :D)
Polydactylism is usually caused by inbreeding... Not that i am making any claims about your family, but you are in Kentucky.....:D
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12-01-2004, 06:41 AM
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my superstitions are more based in common sense.
its unlucky to wash a plugged in toaster in the bathtub its unlucky to stick your hand into the mouth of a hungry pit bull its unlucky to play pin the tail on the buick in the middle of a freeway ... stuff like that... 6 toes on each foot eh ? could she run faster than normal ? :)
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12-01-2004, 06:43 AM
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There is a distinct difference between "unlucky" (which has to do with "fate") and "stupidity" (which has to do with "poor choice making, even though the person involved has the common sense to do otherwise")
:D
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