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    Old 08-07-2011, 01:57 PM
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    Originally Posted by IrelandDragonQuilting
    If you eat black eyed peas with your dinner on New Year's Eve you will have a properous new year.

    If your right palm itches, money is coming
    If your left palm itches, money is leaving

    A cricket in your house is a sign of good luck.

    If a ladybug lands on you, good luck is coming your way.

    My favorite one is, what you do to your parents, your children will be ten times worse.

    I think that is what is meant by WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND my daughter hates it when I say that LOL
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    Old 08-07-2011, 02:01 PM
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    To QuiltE::: Was there soap in the cup??? Just kidding.
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    Old 08-07-2011, 02:04 PM
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    To: QUILTE Was there soap in the cup??? Just kidding.
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    To: QUILTE Was there soap in the cup??? Just kidding.
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    Old 08-07-2011, 02:04 PM
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    Sorry for all the duplicate printing.
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    Old 08-07-2011, 02:11 PM
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    has anyone ever heard if you have a statue of a elephant,
    having the trunk upwards is goodluck, downwards is badluck.
    Just curious.I once gave my mother a stuff elephant, trunkdown,
    she never put it out on display, hmmm
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    Old 08-07-2011, 02:14 PM
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    Originally Posted by Olga,quilt's
    has anyone ever heard if you have a statue of a elephant,
    having the trunk upwards is goodluck, downwards is badluck.
    Just curious.I once gave my mother a stuff elephant, trunkdown,
    she never put it out on display, hmmm
    Yeppers!
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    Old 08-07-2011, 02:25 PM
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    If the sky has blue in it while raining, will rain the next day too.

    Sun dogs in sky needs change in weather.
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    Old 08-07-2011, 05:48 PM
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    Originally Posted by IrelandDragonQuilting
    Originally Posted by Olga,quilt's
    has anyone ever heard if you have a statue of a elephant,
    having the trunk upwards is goodluck, downwards is badluck.
    Just curious.I once gave my mother a stuff elephant, trunkdown,
    she never put it out on display, hmmm
    Yeppers!
    I heard that if you get elephants you should face their trunks the same direction for good luck.
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    Old 08-07-2011, 06:49 PM
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    spiders do that all the time here and its tooo dry. we just don't notice em (thank goodness) unless it'sdewey in the morning

    Originally Posted by janallyn
    when i lived in north carolina, that was close to wanchese, on the outer bankds, they said if the spiders built a web over the grass that we were in for a nor easter, now i did not have a camera then, but i will tell you that the spiders built these funnel webs, and darn if we did not have bad weather, and the when i lived/moved to marshalburg(look up the ponies schakleford/or carrot island) island) /ottway it was just 4 miles from harkers island (with is down east from beaufort north carolina), bonnie the hurricane came over us 5 times, back and forth.
    is anyone familiar with the term, i have been mommicked?
    very much a nc term
    just wondering

    key board is not working rite, will change it out

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