This bus-charming man

[hirez]

Years and years ago, uk_jon and I came up with the cod-philosophical concept of 'Smoking a cigarette to make the bus come'. As might be obvious, we seemed to be spending rather too much useful drinking time hanging around near windswept Cheltenham bus-stops in the depths of winter, waiting for the sodding bus to turn up. And like as not sail past since

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[markeris]

"Years and years ago, uk_jon and I came up with the cod-philosophical concept of 'Smoking a cigarette to make the bus come'. As might be obvious, we seemed to be spending rather too much useful drinking time hanging around near windswept Cheltenham bus-stops in the depths of winter, waiting for the sodding bus to turn up. And like as not sail past since it was a small bus[1] and already full

[hirez]

I guess it's a kind of quasi-applied Sod's Law.

[liz_lowlife]

Yup, me too.

[serpentstar]

cavalorn used to do exactly the same thing. I likely would too, if I'd ever smoked. I think it's a pretty standard piece of Discordian hedge magick, really.

[markeris]

it would be a poor discordian indeed who didn`t work this one out from first principles ;-)

[hirez]

Oh bloody hell. Really?

I/we just thought it was some reasonably obvious reality-hacking.

(Although not in so many words at the time.)