Broke 0 #1 June 14, 2006 Does anyone know how this superstision originated?Divot your source for all things Hillbilly. Anvil Brother 84 SCR 14192 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #2 June 14, 2006 No idea. But have you ever tried to whistle at altitude? "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 220 #3 June 14, 2006 QuoteNo idea. But have you ever tried to whistle at altitude? Yeah - I was in a raft and DAMN did the wind start blowing!I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy_Copland 0 #4 June 14, 2006 I have, i thought i may just be a freak but i couldnt hit those high notes and didnt wanna embaress myself asking 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jessyca264 0 #5 June 16, 2006 Pirates -Sailors long believed that they could whistle for the wind. This was best done by sticking a knife into the mast and whistling softly so as not to offend the wind spirit and bring on a storm. To whistle in a calm would bring a wind, ancient sailors believed, but to whistle on deck when the wind was blowing would bring a gale. Spit into the wind and you were inviting disaster, no doubt, just as you were if you allowed a landlubber to whistle on deck. If a black cat frolicked on deck, a big blow was coming, for a black cat was thought to carry a gale in its tail. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broke 0 #6 June 16, 2006 Neat. The other day as we were docking I started to whistel something because I was getting bored, because the conversation had just dropped off. hen one of te Deckhands said rather rudely, "There are two types of people who whistle on a boat. One is a bosen and the other's a cocksucker. You don't look like a bosen."Divot your source for all things Hillbilly. Anvil Brother 84 SCR 14192 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #7 June 16, 2006 Wind is GOOD for my boat.. its free and can take me all the way across the ocean Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #8 June 16, 2006 nah uhh. you got it all wrong. if a sailor whistles on the deck, it causes a butterfly to flap its wings in Japan. those little fuckers can really stir up some shit.My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
