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No, not *quite* a palindrome.
I varnished my nails on the way home today - green_trilobite reacts gets headaches from the fumes, so I decided to do it in the open air while waiting at various bus/streetcar stops.
Naturally this meant that for much of the trip I had incompletely painted nails, and I was reminded that once, in high school, someone claimed that having one single nail varnished was a way of indicating one's religious affiliation as "Satanist." I never found out *why* this was supposed to be more pleasing to the Dark Lord than a full manicure, though I suspect the real logic was that parents would be less likely to spot one painted nail than ten.
Anyone else ever hear this one, or was it purely a New Brunswick legend?
ETA - quick search suggests it's a rock'n'roll thing - the people claiming it's satanic appear to be the same people claiming that D&D is satanic.
I varnished my nails on the way home today - green_trilobite reacts gets headaches from the fumes, so I decided to do it in the open air while waiting at various bus/streetcar stops.
Naturally this meant that for much of the trip I had incompletely painted nails, and I was reminded that once, in high school, someone claimed that having one single nail varnished was a way of indicating one's religious affiliation as "Satanist." I never found out *why* this was supposed to be more pleasing to the Dark Lord than a full manicure, though I suspect the real logic was that parents would be less likely to spot one painted nail than ten.
Anyone else ever hear this one, or was it purely a New Brunswick legend?
ETA - quick search suggests it's a rock'n'roll thing - the people claiming it's satanic appear to be the same people claiming that D&D is satanic.
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Date: 2011-10-13 03:05 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-10-13 08:43 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-10-13 12:43 pm (UTC)From:We had a neighbor that freaked when my son had on a KISS shirt and told him KISS meant Knights in Satan's Service. She also talked to paneling in our local diner, though...
A yahoo answer about the KISS acronym said you could make up anything like that, didn't mean it was true...and then gave the example that she could go around claiming that KISS stood for "Kittens in Soft Socks". Which, I won't be getting that out of my head anytime soon.
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Date: 2011-10-13 03:57 pm (UTC)From:Someone needs to organize an evening of burlesque to KISS tunes.
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Date: 2011-10-15 08:54 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-10-13 04:43 pm (UTC)From:Mind you, I have to use my knees...