"If you wear green on Thursday, it means you're horny"

[GreenPartyVoter]

I heard this all through elementary school. (No idea what it meant, of course.)

But has anyone ever heard this before, or did my small hometown have some weird folklore of its very own?

[BlondieK143]

1. I've heard wearing green in general.

Never knew it was just a Thursday thing. :shrug:

[gollygee]

2. Kids said that here too

what if you're horny on another day? I always wondered why Thursday was the only day.

[KitchenWitch]

3. that one was used around here too

Suburban Twin Cities.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Well, green is traditionally a fertility color. Is thursday good that

way too? (Thor doesn't strike me as a fertility guy)

[KitchenWitch]

7. not sure

No, Thor strikes me as too "militant" to be bothered with, well, you know!

[realisticphish]

15. well, you know

he goes out...pillages with the guys...

gets "hammered" (hahaha) and then starts talking to his soldiers about how noone understands him but them...

things go on from there.

and, i won't make the inevitable comment about the headgear:

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. His loin cloth is kinda greenish

[mcscajun]

4. Never heard it...but maybe it came 'after my time'

Funny now, though, to think of this past St. Patrick's Day...it was a Thursday.

:rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. When was your time? This was the 70s and 80s for me.

[mcscajun]

8. I graduated H.S. in 1969

So this is Definitely "after my time"

:bounce:

[sendero]

9. Hmm......

.... and all this time I just wore green because I thought I looked good in it (green eyes and all :)) !

[progmom]

10. Yup.

We were all deeply conflicted when St Patrick's Day landed on a Thursday. :P

[bigwillq]

11. We had that in CT too!

And if you ate green M&Ms it also meant you were horny!

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Yep. We had that in Maine too.

[Dastard Stepchild]

13. I thought it was eating the green M&Ms...

of course, then, all of us fought over the green M&Ms.

[wideopen]

20. Green M&M'S made you horny

and yellow ones did something also, but I can't remember what.

[fryguy]

14. i've heard about green M&Ms, but never wearing green on Thursdays

eom

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Well, now you know. :^)

[fryguy]

17. i'll be noticing green clothing tomorrow then - n/t

[chickenscratching]

18. you just put me through a nostalgia wave!

i have vivid memories of people saying this on Thursday, and i never found out where it originated from in the first place. :shrugs:

[Squeech]

21. Once upon a time

back when I was in grade school, wearing green on Thursday meant you were gay. (Although that wasn't the terminology we used back then.)

[tjwmason]

22. I better find something green to wear then

It majorly isn't my colour, my I have to keep the side up.

[Squeech]

23. Fashions change

My school days were 40 years ago. I think that fashion statement may be a little out of date by now-- certainly the kneejerk homophobia that motivated it is, at least in my neighborhood. Anyway, nowadays I think you're supposed to wear rainbows :-)

You're the only other poster who talks about Messiaen. Are you in my demographic? (I'm 52.)

[tjwmason]

24. Rainbows certainly wouldn't work with me

My wardrobe is dominated by blue.

Not quite your demographic (25, pretending to be a few years younger).

I discovered Messiaen from a friend at university, and now have a missionary zeal about promoting him.

[RebelOne]

25. When I went to school, it was if you wear green on Thursday

you are a queer. Of course, that was in South Florida.