It was some kind of superstition, where if it was the last thing you said when you went to bed on the 31st, and the first thing you said when you woke up on the 1st, your wish would come true.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - May 11, 2009 7:02:28 am PDT #18991 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
tommyrot - May 11, 2009 7:02:47 am PDT #18992 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OMG, I do that. Is that where I got that from? Except I say "White Rabbits, White Rabbits". When I remember.
When I was in grade school, I read that on the first of each month you're supposed to greet everyone by yelling, "White rabbit!"
As a joke, a friend of mine dropped off a rabbit in a box on our front lawn on the first of June. I didn't see the box until after the rabbit had escaped.
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Sparky1 - May 11, 2009 7:04:32 am PDT #18993 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
Why did she do this?
For good luck. My DH does this (and insists I do, too, now). I usually humor him, but then start naming all sorts of animals, e.g. "rabbit rabbit beagle beagle hippo hippo bear bear tarantula tarantula...", until he tells me to stop. Hee.
Amy - May 11, 2009 7:10:43 am PDT #18994 of 30000
Because books.
Perkins, Cherry Ames was a series of books of the same vintage (or a little later) as the original Nancy Drew, but Cherry was a nurse. So there was Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, and Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse, and Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse, etc.
Trixie Belden was another girl sleuth.
Jesse - May 11, 2009 7:21:29 am PDT #18995 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
White Plainsians would not consider their city upstate, since the emotional/fiscal ties are with NYC (not Albany). We're snobs that way.
That's as much geography as snobbishness, though -- it's really not upstate.
Amy - May 11, 2009 7:25:14 am PDT #18996 of 30000
Because books.
Did nobody else read the Beany Malone books? I loved them.
Theodosia - May 11, 2009 7:25:42 am PDT #18997 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I remember Beany!
megan walker - May 11, 2009 7:28:19 am PDT #18998 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's as much geography as snobbishness, though -- it's really not upstate.
Upstate is everything that's not NYC or Westchester (i.e., White Plains is not upstate). It was a revelation when I realized that upstate basically wasn't upstate, but, rather, most of the state.
Sparky1 - May 11, 2009 7:28:24 am PDT #18999 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
One of my co-workers has a complete collection of Beany Malone in her office and at home.
eta:
Upstate is everything that's not NYC or Westchester
Buffalo peeps would not consider themselves upstate, but western NY.
Jesse - May 11, 2009 7:30:55 am PDT #19000 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Upstate is everything that's not NYC or Westchester (i.e., White Plains is not upstate). It was a revelation when I realized that upstate basically wasn't upstate, but, rather, most of the state.
I've been mocked by a non-NYC type for calling Poughkeepsie upstate, so really I think it depends on perspective. Sophia, where do you think upstate starts?