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Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Heh

Luck is a myth?! No! Next they'll be telling me that my lucky charms aren't magically delicious at all!!

Posted by The Reader (Member # 3636) on :

:bump: To increase your optimism.

I've always thought that people create their own luck.

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

The only luck the Irish have is bad luck.

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

quote:
Originally posted by T_Smith:
Heh

Luck is a myth?! No! Next they'll be telling me that my lucky charms aren't magically delicious at all!!

They aren't. They're just regularly delicious.

Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :

Ok, seriously. An Englishman went to Ireland expecting luck? The headline should read "Englishmen are bloody ijigts". Suren what luck they might be having isn't for the likes of him.

[ September 13, 2005, 01:32 AM: Message edited by: MrSquicky ]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

I have to agree. The luck of the Irish wouldn't apply to an Englishman, now would it?

Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :

I'll be danged. I thought Mexicans are supposed to be lucky.

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Yay, I feel somewhat validated!

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

Muck Fichigan!

Go Irish!

Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :

"If you had the luck of the Irish, you'd wish you were English instead."- John Lennon

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

That's the silliest experiment ever.

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

I think John Belushi covered this...

quote:
Jane Curtin: And now we come to St Patrick's Day and John Belushi is here to discuss the luck of the Irish.

John Belushi: Thank you, thank you very much. Well it's come that time again, St. Patrick's Day has come and gone and well the sons of Ireland are basking in the glow. When I think of Ireland I think a lot of colorful Irish expressions like, "Top of the morning to ya," "Kiss the barney stone," "May the road rise to meet ya," "May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you're dead," "I'd like to smash you in the face with my shalalee," "Danny-boy," "Bhagora," "Wail of the banshee," and "Whiskey for the leprechauns, whisky for the leprechauns." But the expression I think most people identify with the Irish, is, of course, the luck of the Irish.

The luck of the Irish. Sure. Let's say you're in a pub somewhere in Ireland, oh, anywhere in Ireland, some guy comes up to you and says, "Hey is that a bomb on you I hear ticking?" And then BAM!!! Your small intestines are on the ceiling and your brains are on your car across the street. That's the luck of the Irish for ya, who's kidding who, okay?

There's more, quite a bit more.

Belushi didn't need no stinkin' study. [Wink]

Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :

Skibbereen! They tested this theory about luck in Skibbereen? Have they not heard the song?

Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :

Since when is buying lottery tickets scientific research?

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

I bought a lottery ticket. Once. I didn't win. What a waste of a dollar! I never bought another one.

Somehow, I think I lack the temperament for gambling.

Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :

Were the tickets funded by some organization? Or is this guy just nuts wasting a TON of money?

Sounds like he has a gambling problem to me, and it just trying to excuse it with some "scientific experiment" explanation.

I thought the luck of the irish was covered under Murphy's Law....

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

[Big Grin]

Green smilies on the house.