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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Iceboy, upon seeing an ambulance we used to say "Hold yer collar, never swallow til you see a dog" if there were no dogs about and we couldn't swallow -I guess we'd need the ambulance!!!! Then there was the superstition of -if you HAD to walk under a ladder you had to keep your fingers crossed-or really bad luck would come your way. I still won't walk under a ladder to this day - even with fingers crossed!!!![/quote]
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Old local sayings and superstitions
replied on: 2/27/2007 10:15:07 PM

Iceboy, upon seeing an ambulance we used to say "Hold yer collar, never swallow til you see a dog"

if there were no dogs about and we couldn't swallow -I guess we'd need the ambulance!!!!

Then there was the superstition of -if you HAD to walk under a ladder you had to keep your fingers crossed-or really bad luck would come your way.
I still won't walk under a ladder to this day - even with fingers crossed!!!!

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