Is it politically acceptable to say that whenever Adebayor is interviewed I don't understand a word he says but it sounds groovy?
Funny - but also the kind of joke which gives me the heebeejeebies. These chickens aren't even a sparkle in the rooster's eye yet, let alone hatched.
Somehow, the bigger and better our squad becomes the more pre-season butterflies I am getting. Anyone feel the same....?
haha fridayyodel - you're not the only one! During the world cup coverage I didn't get a word of what he was on about but it sounded good.
MallingFox: I know what you mean. I'm not generally a superstitious sort of bloke, but I get slightly nervous when we're bookies' favourites – and when our supporters start getting cocky and telling other fans that we have anything in the bag, that's the equivalent of throwing away your lucky rabbit's foot then walking under a ladder while opening an umbrella indoors on Friday 13th.
BTW, why are rabbits' feet regarded as lucky? They clearly didn't do a lot of good for their original owners.
Glad its not just me, FF.
Wiki speculates that in ye olde Celtic times "young males were first introduced to hunting rabbits, as an introduction to their apprenticeship as a hunter. If they were successful, one of the hind feet of the rabbit was presented to them in a ceremony which would welcome them to manhood within the clan."
Come 6 August I shall not be visible for the rabbits' feet festooning me....
Though I can't recall the details, I did a few years ago (when researching gamblers' superstitions) come across a voodoo rabbit's foot thing, which suggests that it goes rather wider than the Celts. Though of course there were French as well as African influences at work on Hispaniola, so perhaps a broad take on 'Celtic' (to cover Bretons, for example) would still cover it.
I'm pretty sure that this Louisiana voodoo version was really specific, like the rabbit had to be found on a freshly filled grave at midnight on a full moon, and I remember thinking "That would have to be one hell of an unlucky rabbit!" Hence my near-rhetorical question.
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posted on 28/7/11
Is it politically acceptable to say that whenever Adebayor is interviewed I don't understand a word he says but it sounds groovy?
posted on 29/7/11
Funny - but also the kind of joke which gives me the heebeejeebies. These chickens aren't even a sparkle in the rooster's eye yet, let alone hatched.
Somehow, the bigger and better our squad becomes the more pre-season butterflies I am getting. Anyone feel the same....?
posted on 29/7/11
haha fridayyodel - you're not the only one! During the world cup coverage I didn't get a word of what he was on about but it sounded good.
posted on 29/7/11
MallingFox: I know what you mean. I'm not generally a superstitious sort of bloke, but I get slightly nervous when we're bookies' favourites – and when our supporters start getting cocky and telling other fans that we have anything in the bag, that's the equivalent of throwing away your lucky rabbit's foot then walking under a ladder while opening an umbrella indoors on Friday 13th.
posted on 29/7/11
BTW, why are rabbits' feet regarded as lucky? They clearly didn't do a lot of good for their original owners.
posted on 29/7/11
Glad its not just me, FF.
Wiki speculates that in ye olde Celtic times "young males were first introduced to hunting rabbits, as an introduction to their apprenticeship as a hunter. If they were successful, one of the hind feet of the rabbit was presented to them in a ceremony which would welcome them to manhood within the clan."
Come 6 August I shall not be visible for the rabbits' feet festooning me....
posted on 29/7/11
Though I can't recall the details, I did a few years ago (when researching gamblers' superstitions) come across a voodoo rabbit's foot thing, which suggests that it goes rather wider than the Celts. Though of course there were French as well as African influences at work on Hispaniola, so perhaps a broad take on 'Celtic' (to cover Bretons, for example) would still cover it.
I'm pretty sure that this Louisiana voodoo version was really specific, like the rabbit had to be found on a freshly filled grave at midnight on a full moon, and I remember thinking "That would have to be one hell of an unlucky rabbit!" Hence my near-rhetorical question.
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