Are you superstitious?
All actors are superstitious, you know. Especially stage actors! Did you know that it's supposed to be bad luck to whistle in a dressing room? Not just your dressing room, but any old dressing room! It's true! Good thing most superstitions have remedies (even if some of them are pretty silly, like throwing perfectly good salt over your shoulder). If you do whistle in your dressing room, you're supposed to leave the room, spin around three times, then knock on the door and ask to come back in. Sounds a little like one of Fozzie's comedy routines, doesn't it?
And everybody knows you're never supposed to wish an actor good luck before a performance, because it might have the opposite effect. Well, almost everybody. There was the time that Hilda told Animal to break a leg. Fortunately, Gonzo is pretty used to being in traction.
But while we're on the subject of superstitions, there's a few things I'd like to set straight about myself and frogs in general.
1. The dried body of a frog worn in a silk bag around the neck averts epilepsy. - Absolutely wrong! It doesn't do much of anything other than make the frog really uncomfortable and put you on some fashion expert's worst dressed list. (I suggest a bit of mud or moisturizer to restore your frog's skin to a nice, glossy green.)
2. A frog brings good luck to the house it enters. Absolutely true! We'll also bring pizza and a six pack of soda.
3. Touching a frog causes infertility. Who writes these things? Of course we don't! My Mom touched my Dad and I have over 3,000 brothers and sisters.
4. Killing a frog causes bad luck. - WHAT?!! No killing of frogs or salamanders or any other amphibians! BAD! It's BAADDDDD LUCK to kill frogs!! VERY BAD LUCK!!! (And no trying to take their legs away from them, either!) Very BAAADDDD!!!!!
Sheesh!!
And everybody knows you're never supposed to wish an actor good luck before a performance, because it might have the opposite effect. Well, almost everybody. There was the time that Hilda told Animal to break a leg. Fortunately, Gonzo is pretty used to being in traction.
But while we're on the subject of superstitions, there's a few things I'd like to set straight about myself and frogs in general.
1. The dried body of a frog worn in a silk bag around the neck averts epilepsy. - Absolutely wrong! It doesn't do much of anything other than make the frog really uncomfortable and put you on some fashion expert's worst dressed list. (I suggest a bit of mud or moisturizer to restore your frog's skin to a nice, glossy green.)
2. A frog brings good luck to the house it enters. Absolutely true! We'll also bring pizza and a six pack of soda.
3. Touching a frog causes infertility. Who writes these things? Of course we don't! My Mom touched my Dad and I have over 3,000 brothers and sisters.
4. Killing a frog causes bad luck. - WHAT?!! No killing of frogs or salamanders or any other amphibians! BAD! It's BAADDDDD LUCK to kill frogs!! VERY BAD LUCK!!! (And no trying to take their legs away from them, either!) Very BAAADDDD!!!!!
Sheesh!!