Friday the 13th

[Gnomeborg]

It's Friday the 13th. The number 13 has been considered unlucky since the concept of numerology was developed by Alfred Nobel in 1967 to prove that Nikolai Tesla was a transvestite. Friday was declared unlucky by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales after a bad breakup with Rebecca Black. The combination of the two has always been considered unlucky, if your reckoning of "always" only extends back to 1907.

I propose that, in this thread, we bite our thumbs at Nobel, Chaucer, and Rebecca Black, and post the good things about our days.

Today, I went to plug a USB drive into my computer and got it correct on the second, rather than the third try.

Bad luck day indeed!

 

[tleonwdm]

It's Friday the 13th. The number 13 has been considered unlucky since the concept of numerology was developed by Alfred Nobel in 1967 to prove that Nikolai Tesla was a transvestite. Friday was declared unlucky by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales after to a bad breakup with Rebecca Black. The combination of the two has always been considered unlucky, if your reckoning of "always" only extends back to 1907.

I propose that, in this thread, we bite our thumbs at Nobel, Chaucer, and Rebecca Black, and post the good things about our days.

Today, I went to plug a USB drive into my computer and got it correct on the second, rather than the third try.

Bad luck day indeed!

I was born on Friday the 13th 50 years ago today! Going to enjoy this Friday the 13th with one of my best friends (also turning 50 today!) on the golf course later today (once the rain clears up...)

It has been a good date for me.

 

[Gnomeborg]

I was born on Friday the 13th 50 years ago today! Going to enjoy this Friday the 13th with one of my best friends (also turning 50 today!) on the golf course later today (once the rain clears up...)

It has been a good date for me.

Well happy freakin' birthday Tleon!

I, too, was born on Friday the 13th, but I always took that as an argument in favor of it being a bad luck day, rather than against....

 

[tleonwdm]

Thanks Gnome!

 

[CYkodelic]

It's Friday the 13th. The number 13 has been considered unlucky since the concept of numerology was developed by Alfred Nobel in 1967 to prove that Nikolai Tesla was a transvestite. Friday was declared unlucky by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales after a bad breakup with Rebecca Black. The combination of the two has always been considered unlucky, if your reckoning of "always" only extends back to 1907.

I propose that, in this thread, we bite our thumbs at Nobel, Chaucer, and Rebecca Black, and post the good things about our days.

Today, I went to plug a USB drive into my computer and got it correct on the second, rather than the third try.

Bad luck day indeed!

that's all interesting, if true. i believe it's also true that the association of bad luck specifically with Friday the 13th first began after the crusades when the Templars wealth, power and influence caused the King of France to issue arrest warrants for all Templars on the basis of heresy, treason and assorted other charges in an effort to wipe out the order. Those warrants, literally hundreds of them, were executed -- and the Templars basically ended as an order/organization -- in one fell swoop on a Friday the 13th. (not enough of an historian to have the specific date.) The Templars assets were seized and all members of the order who were arrested were promptly tortured until they confessed then were put to death. Not good luck.

 

[CLONECONES]

Today, I went to plug a USB drive into my computer and got it correct on the second, rather than the third try.

+1 hahahahaha

 

[Gnomeborg]

that's all interesting, if true. i believe it's also true that......

 

[CysRage]

It's Friday the 13th. The number 13 has been considered unlucky since the concept of numerology was developed by Alfred Nobel in 1967 to prove that Nikolai Tesla was a transvestite. Friday was declared unlucky by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales after a bad breakup with Rebecca Black. The combination of the two has always been considered unlucky, if your reckoning of "always" only extends back to 1907.

I propose that, in this thread, we bite our thumbs at Nobel, Chaucer, and Rebecca Black, and post the good things about our days.

Today, I went to plug a USB drive into my computer and got it correct on the second, rather than the third try.

Bad luck day indeed!

Rebecca Black? Friday? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0]Rebecca Black - Friday - Official Music Video - YouTube[/ame] Sorry I had to do it...

 

[Bret44]

It's Friday the 13th. The number 13 has been considered unlucky since the concept of numerology was developed by Alfred Nobel in 1967 to prove that Nikolai Tesla was a transvestite. Friday was declared unlucky by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales after a bad breakup with Rebecca Black. The combination of the two has always been considered unlucky, if your reckoning of "always" only extends back to 1907.

I propose that, in this thread, we bite our thumbs at Nobel, Chaucer, and Rebecca Black, and post the good things about our days.

Today, I went to plug a USB drive into my computer and got it correct on the second, rather than the third try.

Bad luck day indeed!

+1. Made my Friday, I think I'll take the rest of the day off....

 

[cobraclone71]

Fun Facts about the Number 13...

The first U.S. flag had 13 stars (13 colonies) and 13 stripes
The great seal of the U.S had 13 stars
Thirteen arrows
Thirteen pyramid steps
Thirteen shield stripes
Thirteen olive leaves
Thirteen olives
Thirteen letters in annuit coeptis
Thirteen letters in e pluribus unum

Mind = BLOWN!

 

[Gnomeborg]

Fun Facts about the Number 13...

The first U.S. flag had 13 stars (13 colonies) and 13 stripes
The great seal of the U.S had 13 stars
Thirteen arrows
Thirteen pyramid steps
Thirteen shield stripes
Thirteen olive leaves
Thirteen olives
Thirteen letters in annuit coeptis
Thirteen letters in e pluribus unum

Mind = BLOWN!

All this means is that the founding fathers knew how to make a danged good martini.

 

[CLONECONES]

Fun Facts about the Number 13...

The first U.S. flag had 13 stars (13 colonies) and 13 stripes
The great seal of the U.S had 13 stars
Thirteen arrows
Thirteen pyramid steps
Thirteen shield stripes
Thirteen olive leaves
Thirteen olives
Thirteen letters in annuit coeptis
Thirteen letters in e pluribus unum

Mind = BLOWN!

I count 3.

 

[HOTDON]

My wife is heading out with friends for dinner tonight, so my son and I get an exceptionally rare man night at the house. We'll finally get to check out the Army of Darkness blu-ray I picked up a while back.

Awesome day.

 

[EddieISU]

Well in honor of the #13, name the ISU basketball players that have worn that number? I got Cato and Clark, any more?

 

[aforstate]

Also born on a Friday the 13th, some 28 years ago.

 

[CtownCy22]

I just had the Esophagal (sp) dialation done today and all the nurses as they came in said oh it is Friday the 13th. Pretty comforting when they are putting you under let me tell ya.

 

[MidwestZest]

Today is also my birthday, but I was born on a Sunday :-/

 

[rdubbs]

USA Network use to play a bunch of the Friday the 13th movies back to back, I wonder why they stopped?

 

[wolverine68]

In theatre, Friday the 13th is a lucky day. Everything that is normally bad luck is good and and vice versa. That's why you never tell an actor "good luck" you say "break a leg."

 

[Cychotiic]

Had a Chem 325 test this morning and my alarm on my new phone didnt go off. Luckily the prof is letting me take it later today