Whoosh..

[PoorOldSpike]

Another thing to be considered is the "Spooky Factor" which basically means if you go through life pessimistically thinking you'll have bad luck, then you will have bad luck.

That's why if anybody wishes me "good luck" at the start of a game I sometimes reply-"thanks mate but I don't need it, we make our own luck so I won't risk offending you by wishing you good luck in return. Lady Luck is a fickle witch and we're too good to need her, just like Macbeth said to the 3 witches - "I neither beg nor fear thy favours", so Lady Luck can go take a running jump as far as old POS is concerned".. :)

That's been my attitude throughout 30 years of boardgaming and computer gaming and it hasn't done me any harm at all ..:)

Amazingly there seems to be some scientific evidence that people who think unlucky will be unlucky, as shown in a series of ESP experiments carried out by psychology Professor Gertrude Schmeidler, where the pessimistic subjects scored below average as she says -
"This was inexplicable by the physical laws we knew, it implied unexplored processes in the universe, an exciting new field for research. From then on, naturally, my primary research interest was parapsychology"
http://www.parapsych.org/members/g_schmeidler.html

No kidding, when some people begin a game of CM against me and they say- "I usually have bad luck so you'll probably win", I think to myself -'With that mindset mate you're probably right'.. :)
Right Lancey?


"Right kid"