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You grew up learning that horseshoes were totems of some kind. In your experience, should a horseshoe over a door point up, like a u, down, like an n, or some other direction? If you don't have a cultural reference of your own, don't google and don't guess. Arc. ______________________________ "Like a bitter weed, I'm a bad seed"- Johnny Cash "I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." - Pee Wee Herman Rode hard, put away wet. RIP JHM "You're a junkyard dog." - Lupe Flores. RIP | ||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Pointed "up". To gather and hold good luck. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Oddball gave the explanation my grandparents gave me as a kid out in the country (South). *** "Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (I will either find a way or make one)." -- Hannibal Barca | |||
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A Grateful American |
Up and with the horse removed. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Up to keep the luck from falling out is what I was always told. The water in Washington won't clear up until we get the pigs out of the creek~Senator John Kennedy | |||
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Ammoholic |
First four replies all what I've been told. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Ditto. | |||
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Age Quod Agis |
Oddball nails it. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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But the monkey has a valid point. _____________________________________________ I may be a bad person, but at least I use my turn signal. | |||
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Truth Seeker |
Up in a “U” shape. Only way I have ever seen it here in Texas. NRA Benefactor Life Member | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
That cracked me up. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Political Cynic |
upwards so that the good luck doesn't run out and ditto about the horse  [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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When I was a kid, my family visited Williamsburg, Virginia, where I had a horseshoe made with my name etched in it. For it to display properly when hung, the open end pointed up. You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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I agree with Oddball also. My great uncle Ralph, an old fashioned blacksmith, insisted on putting the tail end of the horseshoes pointing in the same direction as the horse's tail. -------------------------------------------- You can't have no idea how little I care. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
Reminds me of this story, possibly apocryphal, about Neils Bohr, the Nobel Prize wining Danish physicist: Above the front door of his country cottage in Tisvilde he nailed a horseshoe, which is said to bring good luck to the home. Seeing it, a visitor exclaimed: "Being as a great scientist as you are, do you really believe that a horseshoe above the entrance to a home brings luck?" "No," answered Bohr, "but they say that it works even if you don't believe in it!" Serious about crackers | |||
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I voted U also. I have met people that used the upside down version, but I don't remember their reasoning. | |||
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THE SIGGUY |
My Mom always said horse shoe up to hold good luck in. -------------------------------------------------------2/28/2015 ~ Rest in peace Dad. Lt Commander E.G.E. USN Love you. | |||
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U COL Potter stated the reason in a M*A*S*H episode.  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Alea iacta est |
Up. Holds the good luck.
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The lucky horseshoe is a big part of Irish folklore and history (despite being typically associated with western cowboy culture). The story of Dunstan and the horseshoe varies greatly depending on where you look. But the gist of the story is that in the 10th century, St. Dunstan (a blacksmith at the time) was visited by the devil himself. The hoofed devil asked for a horseshoe for himself. So then, Dunstan nailed a red hot horseshoe tightly on one of his hooves, and the devil howled in pain. The devil begged for Dunstan to remove it. Dunstan agreed under one condition -- the devil must respect the horseshoe and never enter any place where one was hung above the door. https://www.wideopencountry.co...ng-horseshoes-doors/ U so the luck doesn't run out. As Arc stated, in Ireland and Scotland the open end is down. | |||
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