Celebrity health superstitions

 

Kissing a baldie is just one of the ways to ensure sports victory

WANT TO GET FIT? The first step is to go to your local sports shop and purchase essential health equipment, such as a dead goat.

Huh? Your sports bag is smelly enough without deceased livestock? Consider instead adopting a divine fast food salesman or an enchanted bald man.

Why do you need this stuff? Because you can't be a sports star without the right lucky charms.

Tennis champ Serena Williams attributes her success to her lucky sandals.

World Cup footballer Laurent Blanc kisses the top of a bald man's head before each game.

Cricketer Mark Ramprakash chews a single piece of chewing gum throughout his innings. He once played an innings that lasted three days, so his lucky habit became an ordeal as agonizing as, say, being boiled alive or watching High School Musical with the sound on.

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If you don't respect the Good Luck Gods, disaster follows.

Japan’s Hanshin Tigers celebrated a 1985 baseball win by jumping into the river. They dragged into the water their team idol, a statue of KFC founder Colonel Sanders, forgetting that statues are, by and large, poor swimmers. The Colonel sank to the bottom. The Tigers never won the Japanese series again.

Last month, government riverbed cleaners (they clean and polish everything in Japan, including rubbish dumps) found the statue. The 24-year-curse is lifted, declared former Tiger leader Yoshio Yoshida. The bad news is that he's now 75, and it's hard to hit a homerun with a Zimmer frame.

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Then there's the Billy Goat Curse. In 1945, Billy Sianis brought his goat a ticket for a Cubs baseball game at Wrigley Field, Chicago, US. The goat was asked to leave because audience members complained that "it smelled like a goat". Billy and his goat stormed out, cursing.

The team suffered bad luck for decades, until goats were invited to parade on the grounds to kill the curse. But just last month, people broke into Wrigley Field and hung a dead goat from a statue, perhaps hoping to bring negativity back to the stadium (as if having a dead goat hanging up wasn't negative enough).

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Choose your good luck charm carefully. My school friend Luke had a lucky wall. This was a poor choice. He looked stupid rubbing it for luck, and he could not take it with him on away matches. Carrying around a picture of it in his bag made people think he was a sick weirdo, which unfortunately was true.

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Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Goycochea once urinated on the pitch ahead of a difficult penalty shoot-out. He made a spectacular save. Sergio got the idea that he would have to wee on the grass in every match to ensure good luck. He did it regularly after that, even if there were 80,000 fans watching. Selecting a revolting, illegal activity as a source of luck is also a bad idea.

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As for ensuring good fortune for myself, I have a lucky star. It is called "the sun". If it rises in the morning, I know I am going to have a good day.

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But I respect the beliefs of athletes like Laurent Blanc above. Ladies, I am at your service if you want to kiss a baldie and see if you start living a charmed life. (But please note. It hasn’t worked for my wife.)

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Comments

[jason]

I maintain there is no such thing as random. In other words, there is no such thing as chance. Absolutely everything is predetermined.

Hence, "Luck" cannot exist, and superstitions are only a figment of our predetermined imagination.

[Karuna]

Jason: do you belive in free will ?

[jason]

Nope. I do not believe in free will. It is an illusion to us.

[Karuna]

Is'nt life just a big mystery.

[fardel]

It is well known that " le cordonnier est le plus mal chaussé"
( the shoemaker wears the worse shoes).
Maybe Mrs Nury's luck is somewhere else

I used to believe that nothing was impossible once one's mind is set for achieve anything;
That was before I met the gremlins on my airport

[angela]

I've seen football players touch the ground and make a sign of the cross before starting the game. Is that a good luck charm?

Life is indeed a big mystery and that's what makes it exciting to wake up each morning, not knowing what the day has in store for you but believing that it can be good if you are determined to make it good. Until gremlins started making the jars hard to open or hide my shoe under the bed and such.

[fardel]

I am the anti gremlins specialist

Put the mattress on the floor , throw the bed:your shoes will have nowhere to hide
Leave children around the jar: it will be open when you need it ( it might be empty as well, nothing is perfect)

[Uli Dernbach-Steffl, Germany]

Oh yes, please, Nury, come over to Germany to let me kiss your bald head for luck! :-))))))

[SJ]

Nury, I dont need your bald head to enchant me because reading your diary on a daily basis makes my day nearly perfect!

And talking about your lucky 'star', the sun and if it rises in the morning, i had this text forwarded to me by a friend:

True friend are like mornings, you cant have them the whole day, but you can be sure, they will be there when you wake up tomorrow, next year and forever.

[fardel]

Talking about sunshine.
If you are down and need a booster, visit the gang gallery on this site;
The raccoon-eyed guy in the back of the front page is me;
Nury,couldn't you find a better picture to post there?

[Nury]

Dear Fardel, I thought that picture was nice, one of the readers sent it to me, but I can change it to a different one if you want

[Angela]

Post pic of fardel with a machete. Hehe.

[fardel]

This picture is nice, but I think it is wise to replace it , just in case a raccoon-eater like......... sees it
Is this reader who I think it is ?

[SJ]

Hey Fardel, thanks for the info. I saw the gang's gallery and Im gonna send in my pic too to join you guys!!! I believe you dont have racoon's eyes, more to a panda!

[fardel]

Thanks
It is always comforting to be classified as endangered , protected species;

I am disappointed, I was expecting a rush of answers to my invitation for a dinner of silkworms.

I guess that I shall have this dinner by myself

[sheilajade]

Having racoon's eyes is one of the symptoms of back bone fracture.
I believe you dont have that Mr. Fardel. btw, you are cute in the pix. why change it? its good having variety of choices to look at.

[fardel]

Thank you,
but beware ..; somebody will be jeaaaaalous
by the way , do you like silkworm?

[sheilajade]

You are welcome.
Ow, sorry and excuse my praise (it was only meant to be a compliment from a "friend" to another friend -- i think i know who SHE is :-)
Thanks but i dont eat silkworm, try making it into a burger, maybe i'll have a bite :-)

Hello to Ms. ------

[Ben]

create ur own luck!!

[Dental Care]

kissing a baldie to ensure a victory? what a curious superstition...

[Tooth Whitening]

These kind of superstitions really bother me a lot.

[Cheapest Viagra Online]

I kiss the bald head of a companion, and still we lose, what a crap!

[Hypertension]

These kind of practices can carry health problems or stuff ?

[Weight loss]

Are just superstitions, and I personally do not believe it.