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To: Gauguin who wrote (38178)	9/18/1999 3:33:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Jeez Gaugs, mebbe you're breaking a mirror every 7 years. Or you dropped a box full of them and will have to be reincarnated to get enough years of bad juju. I need a list of what stocks you own so I can avoid them. Sometimes it doesn't have a thing to do with what you did, just your turn with the Fickle Finger of Fate, the Dirty Digit of Destiny, the Rigid Rod of Reality, none of whom I've met. Nope, not me. I always know it's my fault, get the oh shit feeling. Like, can I turn the clock back?

To: Gauguin who wrote (38178)	9/18/1999 5:25:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I'm not familiar with a common cause of thirteen years bad luck, but I did find this discussion of mirror related bad luck. (You might want to look for a south running stream in advance just to save on the grinding part.) The belief that the soul projects out of the body and into mirrors in the form of reflection underlies perhaps the most widely known mirror superstition: that breaking a mirror brings seven years' bad luck. Many believed that breaking a mirror also broke the soul of the one who broke it. The soul, so angered at being hurt, exacted seven years of bad luck in payment for such carelessness. The Romans, who were the first to make glass mirrors, attributed the seven years' bad luck to their belief that life renewed itself every seven years. To break a mirror meant to break one's health, and this "broken health" would not be remedied for seven years. The bad luck could be averted, though, by grinding the mirror shards to dust so that no shattered reflections could again be seen in them. The early American slaves adopted a less grueling way to deal with this kind of ill luck: submerge the broken mirror pieces in a stream of south-running water, and the bad luck would be washed away in seven hours. madstone.com

To: Gauguin who wrote (38178)	9/18/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Considering the aspergillosis, the Hodgkins, the heel bones, and the hips, you've had more than your fair share of bad health, I agree. On the other hand, your powers of recuperation seem to be awesome. So that's a lucky thing. And you have the best wife in the world, so that's lucky. And you live in a wonderful town, so that's lucky. I don't know what you were like before you got sick, did you like to tell stories and make observations? Because you are very good at that now. It would be neat if that was an ability that you developed to compensate for the health problems. But you have probably always been this way, and maybe that's what's helped you get through the bad times.

To: Gauguin who wrote (38178)	9/18/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

I don't know what causes Bad Luck Black Holes, or Eternal Bad Karma. Could it be that you screwed up with the Feng Shiu and built a house facing the wrong way? I've heard that that can lead to some pretty nasty consequences... but not usually as bad as what you've been through. I seem to have Bad Luck Years... 1994 was rotten and 1999 is an instant replay only a lot worse. But with me, most bad luck seems to come in threes and that's not good at all. It's always like this. I'm coasting along, kind of minding my own business and having so-so to good luck with things. Then BOOM! out of the blue, something really bad happens. Now, after all of these years, I know the drill... this is just the start. I'm due for 2 more bad things before life can begin to progress in a straight line again. Sure enough, bad luck #2 happens, and invariably, it is something much worse than bad luck #1. So now, I'm left feeling a little like the only tall object on a perfectly flat landscape during a major lightning storm. But bad luck #3 sometimes takes a little while to develop, age, mature, and get really bad. So, I try to keep functioning, looking over my shoulder to keep on the look-out for it... but then I start to get a bit complacent. Maybe this time, things will be different. And then I start to relax and feel like somehow I got off easy this time. And then it happens...BOOM!! Bad luck #3...and it's always worse that #1 and #2 combined. Well, this has not been a good year... and I'm still waiting for #3...