Most Unlucky Box Ever - Are you Superstitious?
 

I was scrounging through my kitchen trying to find something to attempt to cook for my fiance, and I stumbled across this box. I set it on the counter, and a friend of mine picked it up and took a look at it.

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I didn't really know it at the time, but apparently he can be a bit superstitious.

He checked on the calander on his phone, and January 13th was a Friday.

So, we have Friday the 13th, 666, and 9:11 on one box.

This developed into a discussion about omens and superstitions in general.

I'd like to say I am not superstitious at all, but there have been occasions -few and far between - where I have had a bad feeling for one reason or another about something and not gone ahead with what I was planning. I never really attributed it to superstition before, but always that I had subconscously noticed something.

How about you? Are you superstitious? Any interesting stories about superstitions?

Please share :D

I'm not at all superstitious either, but I do enjoy superstitions. In my office that box would become a display item. Good find!

It would be interesting to know how many others of that same product were made the same day/minute or whatever to garner that expiration stamp. I'd write a few letters with pictures enclosed. Ought to provide customer service agents with a chuckle.

The only things I can name of my own that would be close to supertitions generally have to do with my impatience. They feel more like being set up in a Truman Show situation than a superstition. Traffic is a common theme.

One that regularly amuses me is getting into my car. My residential street is busier than some but not bad. Maybe 2 cars/minute. I park on the street so have to walk to the traffic side to get in. Why is it that every time I go to get in, another car is approaching around the bend such that I have to hustle or wait?

Blame it on the man in the moon.

Now that's an unlucky box!

My most unlucky item i got was my work cheque from yesterday paying from the week of june 6th, 2006.

It was 666.77$.

Sell it on Ebay!!! :D:D:D

I'm not really superstitious at all, some people just overreact when it comes to those things

I'm not superstitious at all... except in jest.

Humans are remarkably good at attributing situational factors and effects on completely unrelated objects/people/etc.

The only thing that worries me about that box is that it's expired... probably wouldn't eat it.

did you eat them?

i second the ebay!

Wow, that would be interesting to see what it fetched on ebay.

$666.77? That's not unlucky, that's a full house!

Do it!
I'm curious to see what something like that would bring.

What kind of dessert was it? I can't decide if "devil food cake" or "angel food cake" would be more humorous.

Oh, man...if that's devil's food cake...

NoSoup is gonna clean up on e-bay. Maybe...just maybe...even a spot on Leno's "Stuff We Found on E-bay" segment.
Superstitious or not....tell me that's not cool.

Has 911 become a superstitious number? I wonder why?

By the way, 666 is only one possible translation of the number of the beast. It's equally possible that it's 660 or 616, but those numbers are a lot less fun when inventing your own role playing game.

Gilda

Despite the fact that I consider myself to be rather unlucky, I attribute it to statistics. I just happen to be on the shitty side of the statistic.

Alrighty folks - I'll ebay it.

I bet that I get at least five bucks for it :D

What do you think I should list it as?

I could sell it for just what it is..


Or, I could sell it as a "Curse in a box" or something along those lines :D

What do you guys think? This'll be a group effort. Feel free to put up any ideas you may have as to the description, title, etc...


It's actually the Chocolate Silk Torte OF DEATH

Nah, the Chocolate Silk Torte of Doom. Doom is more vauge and ominous sounding. I used that with my studunts a lot "of ________" addends. "Of doom" and "of justice" were the most common ones.

Besides, the Torte of Doom would make a good evil villain weapon.

Gilda

Very True Gilda - Choclate Silk Torte of Death gives it only one purpose - Doom can be used for a variety of evil acts, including the end of all time :D

Oh wow. That's really damn cool. I bet you get a hell of a lot more than $5 for it!

Capitalize on the coincidence and hope that GoldenPalace.com buys it.

Try and get it listed on Fark or something. Any auction that makes the front page gets lots of attention...

the real question is: Did you cook it?

No, tortes are far beyond my cooking level.

Actually, anything other than Jello and TV Dinners is a struggle for me...

My mom's family is extremely superstitious and it would amuse me to no end to listen to her stories when I was growing up. Needless to say, I'm not superstitious, although I do get those "bad feelings" occasionally and I do usually listen to them.

I'm not obsessive superstitious, but I'll throw some salt over my shoulder if I spill it, or knock on wood for luck. Those kinds of things.

My niece was born on 9/11 one year after the attacks, so her birthday has alleviated some of the pain of that day for us.

Would it bother you excessively if you broke a mirror?

It would if it was an expensive one. ;)

Well, I probably can't post a link here, but it is up on ebay now.

Anyone want to take a guess as to how much it sells for? I'm gonna guess less than $8.00...

You should be able to post up the item number, and we can find it from there. I say in the $20 range.

Well, I'm not sure if this is legal or not - if not, please remove this post mods :D

Item # 180003016643

Wow. Anyone who buys that is a fucking moron.

But I hope you make some money off of them.

I'll endorse this post 'cause I think its really cool.

Link to auction

Oh man, that's hilarious. Thanks bud :D

"Cake or Death?"

Eddie Izzard should be allerted at once. :)

We should get this torte digged or farked, see what interest it'll generate

Sounds good to me - Spread the word of the Chocolate Silk Torte of DOOM!

Seriously. Let's get this sucker linked everywhere. I'll submit it to Fark, but I don't have an account at digg.com

The more people that submit it, the better the chances it gets linked somewhere :D

Hell, if Fark doesn't accept it, I'll pay the fifty bucks or whatever to get it advertised :D

Your description is great! I'm passing it on to others now.

Speaking of which, any criticism is welcome - I can make changes until there are bids, I believe...

You have a bid! This is fantastic.
I laughed so hard reading the description that cold water went down the wrong pipe. I want a Dessert of Doom.

So, let me get this straight. You were reading about the Chocolate Silk Torte OF DOOM when you nearly choked to death???

Uh-Oh, maybe it's even more dangerous than I thought....:eek:



Lol, I'm surprised that someone bid on it at all, much less so early. If you want the dessert of doom badly enough, you could bid on it - I'll offer a special TFP discount - 98 cents off. So, if you bid now, you get it for a penny :D

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Wow, just about 400 views in less than a day, and it hasn't even made it on Fark yet.

I bought some advertising space on fark for the Torte of Death - it should be in the classified section either today or tomorrow.

However, if we could get it linked on the main page, that would be even better - so send it in folks :D

You have my permission to link this wherever you like, as often as you like.

On a side note - Halx, want me to put a link to the TFP on the bottom? Or would you prefer not to get that kind of publicity....

Great stuff. I'll guess $7.98. Thanks for the link Halx since I was curious but too lazy to view without the link. Glad you are ridding your house of the evil dessert box. hehe..

Heh.. you can leave a link if you want

Dude, your auction couldn't be better but it's not without some personal crap connection. Some of you might remember I spent an entended hell around a hospital last year. My sis brought me the same box-o-doom dessert since she knew the place I bunked had a big shared kitchen. I don't know what the expiration date on that box was but it never made it to the oven.

On the first try I escaped my room in the wee hours just to do something positive and decadent for myself. Dessert time! I fired up the oven, greased and floured a pan and had all the necessary implements out only to discover there was no oil. Crap. Clean the pan and put everything away. Somewhere over the next month I bought oil and tried again. This time I think the problem was no milk. I do remember the third try there was milk but it was a nasty curdled gob, which struck me as remarkably similar to my psyche at the time. From then until the end that damned box sat in my cupboard staring back at me. Taunting my vain snack searches. It was truly the demonic torte mix from hell. Same batch?

Indeed - It probably was :D

WooHoo -

It's on Fark Classifieds now :D

Also, because people have bid on it I can't revise it anymore to post a link to the TFP. If you have an ebay account and are interested in helping me get the link posted, drop me a PM and I'll explain what we can do to get it up there :D

Nope. I've broken about five hand mirrors in the past 3-4 years.
I thought about the 'seven year bad luck' thing at the time the breaks happened, but they didn't stay on my mind too long.
The only "bad luck" I had from it was with hand mirrors. :D

I think these things become indoctrinated into our lives as kids so much, they become almost habit as to us adults.
Doesn't necessarily mean anything.

Well, just to update everyone - we've got just over a day left, and the bid is up to $2.25

I've gotten a number of messages about it, and I think it is in the realm of 1400 hits.

Looks like we might fall short of the $8.00 I'd imagined :D

I'll pass the link around in my circle and see if I can get some more bidding going for you.

you're up to 3.50 now... and close to 1700 hits... :) that tort of doom gets around :)

Holy mother of evil desserts... you got $10.50 for that thing?
You couldn't pay me to take it into my house.
I have bad enough karma as it is. And, yes, I nearly choked to death while laughing at your Torte O'Doom.

Please, you have to remain in contact with the buyer and find out what the hell he was thinking.

plus 5.95 for shipping and handling :)

I hope no one knows this person :)

Maybe he should be invited to tfp :) we wanna meet him :)

Fucking hell, I was going to buy it and make a video of myself baking and eating it. I always hit this kind of thread too late.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I can't believe you got so much money for it! God bless Ebay - I'll have to think about selling some crap there myself.

So who bought it and what did they buy it for? We are dying to know! :D

Maybe...he's already here. :suave:




Or not...what the hell do I know? ;)

I'm not superstitious at all, and I wouldn't even have noticed the numbers on the box lol.

Well, 13 is my favorite number, but I do try to not tempt fate by walking under ladders, breaking mirrors, etc. Growing up we had a solid black cat and she was evil. I don't freak out if something happens that's supposed to be bad luck though.

I do believe I would have at least noticed the 13 on the box. I'm just drawn to it I suppose.....