Getting Pooed On By Birds Or Stepping In Dogs Mess, Who Made Up This Rubbish That It's Good Luck?

[Togo30]

You often hear people after they've been pooed on or stepped in poo say "hey it's good luck"

Where did this twaddle come from? How is an animals diseased and parasite filled waste which can blind you or make you very ill if the bacteria or parasites come in contact with your mouth be good luck?

What's the origins of this?

[vulcan42]

Well if you think about it, it's said by the person accompanying the person who has been hit. So by saying it's lucky the person is really saying It's lucky it didn't fall on me. Origin? lost in the mists of time.

[abstibus]

Please don't pooh-pooh this post.
I am sure that the OP has some serious peer-reviewed research to support her assertions about disease.
Foot and mouth, perhaps?

[factor-fiction]

Do you think so, Tilly?
Okay, well the quotation from Hamlet, Act III, scene II, spoken by Queen Gertrude seems apt regarding some of the comments made in this thread.

Isn't it just a variation on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life?

[Tilly2]

I'm just off to look that up, factor.

[Togo30]

Okay thanks vulcan and sorry for the "idiots" comment everyone it's just i hate getting immature unfunny comments from people who are old enough to be my mum and dad or grandmother and grandfather who should be offering kind words and guidance helping the young uns out and not poking fun and taking the piss out of them.

[AZardoz]

I read somewhere that it was a one-in-a-million chance, like hitting the lottery, therefore lucky.
Only time it happened was many years ago while kissing a girlfriend in a park.
Bam! Right in the back of the head. Lucky? No, she turned out to be a total b!tch.
Omen, perhaps.

[AZardoz]

And of course, there's this old joke.
http://www.searchingwithin.com/humor/moralshit.html

[Bert]

"I read somewhere that it was a one-in-a-million chance, like hitting the lottery, therefore lucky."
Hitting the lottery, as AZardoz puts it, would be fortunate. Getting hit by bird-poo would merely be fortuitous, and not at all lucky.