I had an english teacher in middle school who was (not only racist, but) extremely superstitious. This withered old hag ruined 7th grade for me and gave me an F. She wore this crystal around her neck that she claims contained a wolf spirit. She also refused to ever be photographed because she, like some native americans, feared the camera would capture her soul. I think someone took her photo because that soulless witch was evil.
But anyway, i don’t know where these dumb superstitions come from nor do i understand how they survive. I remember riding Amtrak from NYC to Myrtle Beach SC and the train was 3 hours behind schedule making a 10 hour trip a 13 hour trip. On the train ride home, there was no delay and I said to a female conductor “so looks like there are no delays today.” And she goes “shhhh! don’t jinx it!” Woman, I’m not gonna jinx us. If we’re delayed it’s because of dumbass amtrak. There’s no higher power bent on making us late.
Checking in a guest at my hotel. He’s been upgraded for absolutely no reason to a suite on the 40th floor (40F). I tell him this and he has the nerve to ask me to give him a different room. Why? “because 4 is unlucky for me” So I found a different room for him on the 31st floor. I didn’t bother to mention what 3 and 1 add up to for fear that he might piss and moan again.
Leave your dumb superstitions at home people.
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Reminds me of a favorite line from startrek. Captain kirk says thank god about something and Spock replys something like this. Captain there was no deity involved it was my cross circuiting to b that saved the enterprise.
mark on January 23rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm | Link
OK OK my memory is not as good as I thought here is the actual line
…..”Captain … thank heaven!” “Mr. Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to “B” that recovered them.”
mark on January 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm | Link
Yeah, You know the biggest one going round today is that the world is going to end because it is heating up yep good Ole global warming the most profound superstition the worst scam ever perpetrated on the world.
mark on July 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am | Link
Scam?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Supersition?????????!!!!!!!!!!! Global warming merely conjured from one’s imagination?????!!!!!a pathetic little gimic ???!!!!!!!! Grow up you ignorant selfish indifferent thicko! Did they not teach you at school?! Do you not watch the news?!!! Global warming is a very grave and serious problem and it doesn’t help when people like you say things like that! Polar bears are dying and if nothing stops, so will we eventually. We were put on this earth to care for it so do just that!
lia on October 26th, 2008 at 4:02 am | Link
Sorry Lia, but it is a complete and total scam. The environmental movement has been infested with corporate greed: The main drivers behind all this are big energy companies - who will make enormous amounts of money satisfying the new need for “renewable” energy.
I’m a physicist: Trust me that there is no human-induced contribution to global warming. The earth is warming because we are still coming out of an ice age.
Kevin on January 20th, 2009 at 8:08 am | Link
The decrease in the number of pirates over the years is the cause of global warming.
Lauren on July 20th, 2009 at 11:24 pm | Link
yea global warming is happening however link between it and humans is a very vague one. Plus look at the temperatures and co2 levels of early periods. Like Ordovician there is 15 times more co2 then pre industry times (right now there is 1.38 times higher then pre industrial times) and the temperature was only 2 degrees higher. Also before that in Cambrian there was 16 times pre industrial level and it was 7 degrees higher. After Ordovician its same 16 times Co2 in the atmosphere and its only 3 degrees higher. After that there is a huge drop of co2 in Devonian to only 8 times current co2 levels but temperature goes up to 6 degrees higher. After that there is Carboniferous in which co2 levels were 3 times higher then in pre-industrial times but the temperature was exactly the same as today.I can go on but you get the point CO2 couldnt possibly be responsible for the temperature. Look it up yourself.
mico on September 25th, 2009 at 4:43 pm | Link
the other thing is that we only emit 3 percent of co2 and nature emits the other 97% (remember im not saying volcanoes volcanoes dont emit a lot im saying whole nature)
mico on September 25th, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Link