Davezilla's Top Twenty Internet Superstitions
(courtesy of Larry Simon)
- It’s bad luck to leave someone less than a dollar on PayPal.
- First to post is good luck, providing you don’t mention being first.
- Have at least one Buddy on your Instant Messenger list for every year you’ve been alive.
- Hatemail on a Monday and you will be chastised soon; hatemail on a Friday and you will be lucky in love.
- When mouse and keyboard cables cross, all your email will be lost.
- Never have a picture of a poodle as a desktop wallpaper.
- If you lend a Zip disk out on a Friday, you’ll never get it back.
- Knock three times on your monitor while on Travelocity to get the best plane seats.
- Blue screen at morning, IT takes warning. Blue screen at night, something ain’t right.
- Break a webcam, get seven years bad luck.
- If your domain was stolen from you, bury a RAM chip in your front yard. It will bring you luck getting your domain back.
- Never use your mother’s maiden name as a password. You’ll hasten her death!
- Tear the cellophane off a CD in one try. Throw the wrapping behind you. When it lands, it will shape the initials of your true love.
- Scroll down to the 99th line of an Excel document, and type 666SATAN into the 23rd cell. In ten days, MSN will deposit $500 into your checking account.
- If you crash three times while composing an email to your cyber-lover, you will never meet.
- If you comment on a friend’s site, and they comment on yours at the same moment, you will both have good luck all day.
- For good luck in business and love, wear the color[s] of your favorite website [sans animation].
- It is a good augur for a new site if the first person to leave a comment, or sign your guestbook, is not related.
- If you knowingly send a virus to a friend, the back luck will revisit you threefold.
- If you turn out all the lights, reboot your computer, and chant his name three times, the face of Jakob Nielsen will appear briefly in your start-up screen.
