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| 902117. Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:40 am |
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| Mr Swot and I were going to be flexible with the wedding and have it on the Friday after our anniversary, rather than has a less-convenient wid-week wedding, but that Friday is the 13th and Mr Swot's allegedly not-superstitious family just giggled and advised against that. |
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| 'yorz
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| 902120. Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:02 am |
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| And...? You take their advice? |
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| Starfish13
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| 902121. Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:09 am |
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| no1 school swot wrote: | | I never understood the appeal of Dick Van Dyke either, even before I knew that was a fake accent. |
Ooooh, but DVD can talk to dolphins, you know. |
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| 902122. Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:10 am |
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| Yes. Wednesdays have the side advantage of being unpopular days to have a wedding, so we've scored a discount on the reception venue. |
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| 902123. Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:11 am |
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| Quote: | | The porpoises were unavailable for comment. |
:D |
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| 902148. Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:04 pm |
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| sally carr wrote: | | I deliberately choose the number 13 for raffle tickets etc, I walk under ladders but I never allow knives to cross on the plate or in the drainer. |
I've never heard of it being unlucky to allow knives to cross on the plate. |
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| 902152. Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:16 pm |
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| I was taught it's bad manners to do that. |
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| Strawberry
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| 902153. Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:17 pm |
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| It says here that crossed knives are thought to cause quarrels. |
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| 902166. Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:26 pm |
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| Would that quarrel be between a person who's terrified of letting knives cross and someone trying to convince them that nothing bad will happen if the knives cross? |
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| 902175. Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:55 pm |
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| Strawberry wrote: | | It says here that crossed knives are thought to cause quarrels. |
It would at our dinner table. |
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| Celebaelin
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| 902256. Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:34 am |
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Some of the arguments over letting knives cross on the plate got so out of hand that the Ordnance Survey marks their locations lest we forget.
| Quote: | | The Battle of Rullion Green in the Pentland Hills, Scotland on 28 November 1666 was the culmination of the brief Pentland Rising (15-28 November 1666). At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns opposed about 900 Covenanter rebels. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rullion_Green
As a complete aside I didn't realise the 'other' Tam Dalyell (the Politician) was officially Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch 11th baronet. |
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| 902296. Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:41 am |
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| Starfish13 wrote: | | no1 school swot wrote: | | I never understood the appeal of Dick Van Dyke either, even before I knew that was a fake accent. |
Ooooh, but DVD can talk to dolphins, you know. |
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? |
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| 902302. Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:50 am |
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I am not in the slightest bit superstitious, but I am very interested in superstitions and their origins.
For example - I was always told not to put new shoes on the table (and I have to admit that I never, ever do that, even though I know this to be irrational). It would seem that this stems from laying out a dead body on the dining room table for the wake, the only circumstances in which new or at least good shoes would be on the table. Here in Italy, they have a similar belief that you should never put a hat on a bed, presumably for the same reason. |
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| 902303. Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:50 am |
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| Celebaelin wrote: |
As a complete aside I didn't realise the 'other' Tam Dalyell (the Politician) was officially Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch 11th baronet. |
Still is, he ain't dead yet. I remember Tam from his musings in New Scientist, which were just as entertaining as they were informative. He also has the distinction of being the last MP to be rebuked at the Bar of the House by the Speaker wearing their black cap, and was almost dismissed the house. Apparently he released material to the press which was not cleared, not done through any malice but due to ignorance of the rules governing such material. |
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| Celebaelin
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| 902304. Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:57 am |
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I nearly altered the wording of that to remove the ambiguity as I knew from his Wiki page that he wasn't dead but didn't because if I was to say 'I didn't know Tom Cruise was a scientologist' you wouldn't think I was implying that he was dead would you? The language itself carries the flaw doesn't it? It doesn't seem natural to me to say I didn't know that x is y. OTOH 'I was unaware that x is y seems OK. *sigh* No wonder comparatively few English speakers attempt a foreign language.
Anyway to recap then that's Tam Dalyell - not dead. |
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