Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 01, 2024

Sounds like something my MIL would say. In the family it was called “Fiction and Fact from Grandma’s Almanac”

That time of the month again

My Grandma told me this when I was a kid.

I’ve never heard of this. Can I remember it for a month?

It’s still Nov for another hour here. When I wake up in the morning, I won’t remember to say it.

Do groans (that I gotta get up..) count?

Aren’t superstitions associated with old women?

I thought maybe he’d be launching into a Chas & Dave song – chorus is “Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” repeated a few times

The version I grew up with was that “rabbit” was to be said when you wake up on the first day each month, not once the clock strikes midnight. Then, upon waking on the last day of the month, you must say “rabbit” 7 times in a row.

I said it and my cat looked at me like I’m stupid.

I wish I had known this years ago. Alas, I’ll never have good luck because the first words out of my mouth EVERY morning are “OW, OW, OW!”

It’s just ‘rabbits’ where I come from. The lapine theme seems to be very common around the English-speaking world; it’s just the details that vary from place to place.

Why do I keep hearing Elmer Fudd in my head?

Is everyone scrambling to google this?

White Rabbits

When you believe in things that you don’t understand, superstition ain’t the way.

Be careful: my wife went out hunting this morning.