Sneezes and magpies and fonts

[triskellian]

I get sneezes and magpies confused.

'One for a wish, two for a kiss, three for a letter, four for something better'

'One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told'

I have a feeling the first is sneezes and the second magpies, but I'm not sure. Does anyone know? And do you know any other counting rhymes of the sort?

In other news, my new favourite piece of software is Homesite. My main project over the summer is taking a website made up of over 2,000 files, shoehorning it into CSS and templates, and completely redoing the navigation. I've just discovered, buried deep in a menu, the ability to remove all font tags at the press of one button. Bliss :-)

Comments

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

They're all quite right: 1 is sneezes, 2 is magpies.

Other counting rhymes - all that springs to mind is the one for cherry stones that says who you'll marry: tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.

[triskellian]

But don't you only get one stone in a cherry?

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you usually eat more than one at a time! So you count them up afterwards in an eeny-meeny-miny-mo kind of way.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

It's all just an attempt to manipulate the superstitious into never eating more than five cherries, thereby leaving more for the rest of us !

[triskellian]

If it's any consolation, I intend to spend the rest of my life eating no cherries ;-)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Smiorgan used these 8 types as a "nature/demeanor"-style mechanic in a game he ran. Which was interesting, but he seems to have dropped the idea.