The Return of the Pants Friday Question: Lucky Charms

Post by **Dog Pants** » September 19th, 2008, 9:11

Actually on a friday this time. Many people have lucky charms, even if they're not suspicious. I have a scarab on my desk, and a mini one on my bedside table. Neither have led to any luck in either place, but they remain there nontheless. What lucky charms do you have around? Do they work?

amblin · Post by **amblin** » September 19th, 2008, 9:44

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 19th, 2008, 9:48

Same really, I keep random crap because I like it, not because of any perceived luck or stuff like that.

Perhaps the closest thing I have is my old bike frame, but that's more a sentimental thing, given I nearly killed myself using that on more than one occasion.

Oh, and The Fear wards off evil spirits.

Post by **FatherJack** » September 19th, 2008, 9:48

I guess.

I like having stuff at work that cheers me up a little every time I look at it.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 19th, 2008, 9:50

FatherJack wrote:

I like like having stuff at work that cheers me up a little every time I look at it.

fix'd

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » September 19th, 2008, 10:16

I have a chain that an ex gave me just before I joined the RAF. It's like a weird link to still being a scruffy civvy, I wear it at the weekend and on leave.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » September 19th, 2008, 13:02

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:The Fear wards off evil spirits.

It's my breath.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » September 19th, 2008, 13:51

Someone stole mine.

I have nothing I would consider lucky.

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » September 19th, 2008, 14:03

hmm...nopes...nothing...no lucky charm for me...don't believe in most stuffs as everyone knows...superstition is just silly and causes annoying email spam cuz supsertitious people have to send them to 10 people right now or they'll have a bad day! ARRRRR!

Post by **HereComesPete** » September 19th, 2008, 14:16

Don't regard anything as lucky for any length of time if at all. If I bend down to tie a shoe up and find a fiver next to my foot I'll stick it on the lottery, but that might be the gambling habit more than any perceived notion of luck.

I do have a giant 1p coin from 1935 in a drawer and a mexican silver dollar in my wallet, dunno why, maybe lucky, maybe just the way I found them makes me feel better to look at them. A visual link to kick start the memory neurons really.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » September 19th, 2008, 14:18

Same reason I've still got my old festival and gig ticket there really. Even the gigs I didn't especially enjoy I keep the stubs for.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » September 20th, 2008, 20:39

Let's see; a £2 coin that my mum gave me, wich i keep in the small leather satchel wich holds my swiss army knife, wich i take everywhere with me. And a wooden keychain that resembles a lion, wich my mum gave me years ago when she visited Rome, it was the only keychain that survived the great keychain purge (because i only had three keys and about 20 keychains). But as you may have guessed i hang on to them because my mum gave them to me, i don't believe they protect me much, but i always had one of them with me when something bad happened, and i got out unharmed, so who knows?
On a related note, I don't know if any of you remember, but at at the last Grimbash, the lady in the pub gave me a million (slightly exaggerated) 5 pence coins because she didn't have any bigger coins or something, and since they are useless here, i handed them out as good luck charms. They hold a fraction of the power of RO-BO, enough to light up a planet three times the size of earth for 10.000 years, wich may be a bad thing.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » September 20th, 2008, 23:31

I have a forint coin back from 1968, it still has a hammer, sickle, star, and the CCCP writing!