this from Yahoo Answers,the mythology & folklore department. was curious about wive's tales [wize tales, according to one well-informed contributor] concerning an itchy nose and what it means. lots of funny answers ranging from kissing a fool to clean the moss outta yer nostrils. for shits and giggles I then checked this: just got my hubbys name tattooed and heard from my brother that its a curse to do that wondering if thats true or some kind of myth?

okay, a bad spelling here and there; so what. we all do it. but, this next cat does it way better: Well as I sit here writing you this is to say the only curse I know for it for sure is that if you do not stay with your man/woman for life that you will reget having that tattooed there beside the fact that the ink is no good for your body...But there is an old wise tale I have read about in one of the many books I read that says it comes way back from the old country & that it's brings bad luck to the couple who has there mate name tattooed on there body...Sorry I forgot the name of the book..It's at my sister house because she wanted to read it.

hmmmmm....and of the eight or nine other replies, I cannot find one with 100% correct spelling.

other things people have written for the public to see:

What Good Do You Worship??? [this is a pure typo; not a play on words]

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Can someone tell me how to turn into a mermaid!!?

[and the answer is]:

You have to swim down under, some 50 or more miles below into the sea. There are big pearls down there, if you are lucky to find one, you have to touch it. Then if the pearl chooses you it will turn you into a mermaid forever.... but, if you ever go to the surface again you will turn into your human-self but you will fear water as if it was death itself. This will keep you from going into the water ever again so the secret of the mermaids is safe. That is the price you have to pay if you want to be one. you won't see you family anymore and will give up life on shore. If you plan to go down there, you have to do it alone and with no equipment, you and your lungs, that is all.

Why do real mermaids can come back to shore and into the water as they please? Because they are real, they were born mermaids, not made mermaids, and you won't be seen as a mermaid in the mermaid community, you would be seen as a mer-human. Mermaids and mermen can come and go to shore as they please because they know the risks, and they are allowed for being real born merpeople. actually many merpeople live around us because they can change into merpeople and into humans, almost all merpeople have this ability. Many come up here looking for a soul to share with a human. If they find it, many of those merpeople live normal human lives only going into the water and turning into a mermaid or merman a few times a year like for the festivals of Femra Trey and Femra Tray, not going to tell you where to keep the secret but the place is very popular among humans. they would also turn back into merpeople if there is an issue down there like political or familiar..... Trust me, I should know.

all I can say to this one is, "gigglesnort!" wonder if they might need mercontractors down there... this is one of 6 or 7 answers. heres the best one: are you stupid????????

hahaha Id say yes hahaha

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If zombie started thier mass invasion on the world, where would be the safest place?
also, is there any 100% or nearly 100% safe-from-zombies place to go to? [do these two questions seem related somehow, even maybe vaguely?]

would think really cold climates like Alaska and the antarctic. If its that cold their bodies might freeze or be to stiff to move because zombies don't think to bundle up [wonder where this fellow gets his info. is there perhaps a george romaro zombie handbook detailing the finer points of the undead?]

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I see a black shadowed ghost, does it mean anything..?
i havent seen it latley anymore, but it started about 3-4 years ago, i moved into my new home and about maybe a year later i started to see a black shadow of a person, but every time i notice it, it disapears and looks like it runs away.. i want to know if it means anything if i see this ghost thing..

answers [there's 5, here's the two I like pretty good]:
You either have a mental illness, an eye disorder, or are being pranked;
...ghosts are not real.

If this continues, seek mental counseling.

and,

I know which shadows your talking about and NO your not crazy becuase I've seen them to and other people were with me when we saw it!Saw this phenomenon 3x in my life. saw a shadow run past at work at first I though I was just tired and seeing things.But then later that night I was talking to my boss and he was telling me about a buddy of his and employee who used to shoot up heroin in the upstairs bathroom.Well he did to much one night and his heart exploded and he died on the upstairs toilet.So I thought hmm thats who I must of saw then.Find out about the history of your house and if anybody's died there.Sometimes I think there people who are trapped dont know there dead or are having trouble moving on.

well, two answers wont do, heres another good reply with a clarifying question:

Black generally means bad or evil, I meant the type of ghost is either bad or evil.

Question is do you have bad lucks or misfortune after you noticed it?

[yeah, sometimes after seeing a black shadowy thing I also have bad lucks]

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this is good,imho.

QHow do you levitate?

AYou don't.
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magnets
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close your eyes and picture yourself flying...and poof it will just happen. Thats what I do.

[sucking the air out of balloons works, too]

theres lots more, but Im getting sleepy. [plus, this is plenty to see my point about american spelling and the lack thereof.] been a long day of doing absoultly nothing and loving it. been working my ass off of late so this morning (last night, really) I said to myself, I said: 'self, let's spend friday multislacking [new word thanks to urban dictinary, thank you very much].' and I did--for the most part. read a bunch of dan brown's deception point and drank coffee. did a few minor (way minor) chores but 99% of this day was doing what college professors refer to as fucking-off.

speaking of dan brown, I gotta include a short paragraph to show you what Im up against---but first I gotta say S. king's Duma Key is *almost* not worth the six hundred and nine pages its comprised of. this story would have blown my socks off had it been between 400 and 500-ish pages. its like a straight-up drama until the last hundred pages or so. one thing, tho, when the story finally shifts into hyperoverdrive, it does it with classic king flair. I trudged along reading a mix of semispooky stuff and soap opera banality and page after page of storyline the book did not need, then, all hell broke loose and it didnt let up. I mean, it took me almost two weeks to read the first 500 pages because it just wasnt good enough to suck me in for hours and hours, but the last 100 pages took 2 evenings and I wanted more.

crazy, I tell ya.

heres a quote from dan brown that'll curl the toenails off of adverb haters, like Stace: The plateau spread gracefully seaward about ten miles until it ended abruptly at a sheer cliff of solid ice that dropped vertically into the ocean. he wrote that adverbally, wouldnt you say?

personally, I stopped hating adverbs awhile back. every writing guide ya read says 'basically, only use them very sparingly.' a lot of times, tho, an adverb says more than no adverb at all. as long as theyre not every other word, I think theyre a good thing...honestly.

well, thats all I got to say this early saturday morning. Im gonna unmultislack today and get some stuff done. that way, this week I wont be saying, "Man I wish i'd'a done that while I was off."

have a good day ya all.