The Magpie Salute?

[robfosters]

The TV programme Magpie is where the song came from. The tipping of the hat is no doubt related to that too. Stupid superstitions are still stupid regardless of where or how they started. Like touching wood for luck etc. I will walk under ladders, revel in the number 13 and generally not care about any nonsense of this sort.

Ok, calm down!

 

[builder22]

Down where I live there's thousands of parrots to be caught, you don't need a magpie.

Kingston Parakeets?

sounds like an American Football team

 

[Jean-F]

Would you salute it in the afternoon?

My mate says 'good morning mr magpie', maybe it's 'good day'

I do, I heard about this years ago on a phone-in show, the presenter said it to someone, "Always salute a magpie, and ask him how his wife and family are, it brings you luck."
It stuck in my head, and I still do it, a.m. or p.m., although I sometimes wonder if I'm asking a female magpie how her wife and family are, still, for all I know, there may be LGBT magpies in a civil partnership.

 

[ic1male]

I have OCD about the Magpie salute. There are several of them who appear in my garden but mostly it's one on its own. It's rare that he is with his missus.

 

[Outcast]

It's a good job they aint Aussie Magpies.

You wouldn't want to expose your bonce to them !!

 

[arc@css]

Never even heard of a magpie salute.

 

[Safetytrousers]

The TV programme Magpie is where the song came from.

''The rhyme was first recorded around 1780''

 

[arctine]

I don't salute magpies because I'm not a ******* idiot.

 

[Puzzled]

Loads of the things round here so I'd be saluting all day.

Can be entertaining to watch mind.

 

[thedinks]

I salute them after saying "Hello Mr magpie have a nice day." :/

 

[Sliver]

I salute them after saying "Hello Mr magpie have a nice day." :/

Have you spoken your psychiatrist recently?

 

[neodude]

I give magpies the fingers, just to be a rebel

 

[Jean-F]

''The rhyme was first recorded around 1780''

Yes, in Abbey Road Studios, John Adams mentioned it, in his inaugural speech, March 1797.

 

[Hades]

I was brought up to hold my collar as a funeral procession passed. I don't do it now though.

 

[Ryan-3]

Anyone know where this superstition comes from and who still does it?

Superstitions are like old wives tales. Total ******** to be used on the gullible.

 

[padcontrol]

My uncle always salutes when he sees a magpie. No idea whats going on personally.

 

[Sliver]

My uncle always salutes when he sees a magpie. No idea whats going on personally.

It's psychological. In layman terms, your uncle is 1 fruit short of a full scale fruit loop.

 

[padcontrol]

It's psychological. In layman terms, your uncle is 1 fruit short of a full scale fruit loop.

Hes a nice guy, but yes, yes he is.

 

[NoobCannon]

I don't salute magpies because I'm not a ******* idiot.

This.

 

[FlakGunna]

I do the drain thing also, growing up in Essex, nearly everyone at school in the 90's was avoiding them for some reason! I think I remember that if you walked on the 3 drains but managed to walk over 2 drains in a certain amount of time it cancelled out the 3 drains or something like that.

Bizarre the things we pick up

Did the same thing as well.

I believe it is something to do with the drains in London hundreds of years ago when they were made of wood. Apparently they were in such disrepair, there was a one in three chance of one breaking if stood upon and you would fall into the sewers below.

Reminds me of Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses falling down cellars