I have a funny "Lucky Bamboo" story...
My parent's flowershop is on a fairly busy street and has *huge* windows (7 which are each about 8X8 feet). We always have big signs in the windows to advertise for specials. When bamboo was really trendy (a year ago maybe?) my dad placed a order for it and put a giant sign in the window reading: "LUCKY BAMBOO."
That night, someone shot out the window that had the sign in it. (no, we don't live in the ghetto or anything, people are just stupid.)
Now we don't consider it so "lucky" anymore.