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The name for the phenomenon in which if you were to bring a particular item with you somewhere, you won't end up needing it, but should you not bring it, you will need it.
"If I bring my umbrella, it probably won't rain. If I don't, it most certainly will. I guess its just the Talisman Effect at work."
An effect where suddenly everyone in the airport is extremely attractive and you start planning your future with them knowing you’ll never see them again.
Everyone here is sooo hot!
You must be experiencing the Airport Effect
A situation in which a seemingly normal or routine event either works in an unexpected way or not at all. Rarely reproducible, the phenomenon is as fleeting as it is confusing.
The computer crashed every Tuesday morning due to Ed Effect.
While urinating into a lavatory, the main stream is entering as normal, but a shower like spray diverts and causes particulates of urine to land on the toilet seat. This is usually followed by a rapid wiping of the seat with toilet roll, often masked by the flushing of the toilet itself.
Omg I just shower effected all over the seat. I gotta clean up
When waiting for something, asking about when it'll be done or finished, only increases the amount of time you must wait for it.
While asking about the playtest, the players were unaware they were making The Oki Effect creep forward slowly.
It means having too much traffic on a web site due to its link being posted on lifehacker.com as a feature article, sometimes even causing the featured web site to go down.
I just visited the site, but it seems the lifehacker effect took off again!
The act of making a bad/horrendous/cop-out-of-a-sequel or prequel to an originally good movie.
Dave: Dude, I heard they were making a sequel to Boondock Saints.
Steve: I hope they don't apply the Disney effect to it.