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I was wondering why this was here, figuring most on HN know already about this. However I did chuckle reading to the end; in case others missed it: > At the 94

I was wondering why this was here, figuring most on HN know already about this. However I did chuckle reading to the end; in case others missed it: > At the 94th Academy Awards, Chris Rock congratulated Denzel Washington on his performance in The Tragedy of Macbeth, saying the name of the Scottish play aloud in the Dolby Theatre. Moments later, Rock was slapped by Will Smith after making a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Viewers, including playwright Lynn Nottage, quickly took to social media to joke that Rock had suffered the curse of the Scottish play

sanxiyn 5y ago
I didn't know. I guess I am one of today's lucky 10,000 (see https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/).
andrewflnr 5y ago
Theater superstition is an entirely new area for me. I don't know why you would assume otherwise for a forum full of computer nerds.
Narretz 5y ago
That's a stretch, because it wasn't said during production. Which reminds me of the earlier Wikipedia days where "In popular culture" was a common section, and it often contained increasingly trivial references. There's also an xkcd about it: https://xkcd.com/446/ https://xkcd.com/446/
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