It used to be howie's lucky day, but I don't know about now. I have mixed feelings about it. What about you?
Uh, oh, it's Friday the 13th Anybody worried?
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My brother's birthday has fallen on Friday the 13th before.
I'm not bothered by the day in the least.
I'm not bothered by the day in the least.
I'm really superstitious, so I hate Friday the 13th. And my friend Tom in Iraq is headed out on a convoy today, so I'm understandably more nervous about the day than usual.
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It's just another day to me. Though I just stubbed my toe and it hurts like hell. That was a stupid bloody place to leave a gun...
What's the source of "unlucky number 13"?
I sway towards the Neanderthal theory.
Anyone else got ideas/theories/incontravertible facts?
-Derek
What's the source of "unlucky number 13"?
I sway towards the Neanderthal theory.
Anyone else got ideas/theories/incontravertible facts?
-Derek
The number thirteen is feared mostly because it is the first of the "teen" numbers. It thus follows that people fear the number 13 because they fear teenagers. More specifically, they fear raising them and / or interacting with them and / or pimple-juice.
This makes 20, incidentally, the most auspicious of all numbers, 12 the second deadliest, and 113 the third deadliest.
#E#T#A#
What is the Neanderthal theory?
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Sorry, didn't mean to be cryptic. Tho' I'm glad you asked.
Neanderthals were Moon worshippers (the lunar cycle = 13 full moons each year).
If Cro-Magnon, who superseded Neanderthal, warred with Neanderthal (and that's the tough-to-prove part, we're talking 35,000-40,000 years ago, video evidence is pretty thin on the ground
) then the lunar cycle could have become a symbol of bad luck for Neanderthal's enemies.Given that some of us are likely descended from the Cro-Magnon hominid (if you believe in evolution), triskaidekaphobia could be bred into us... much in the same way that fear of spiders is instinctual for many because our ancestors once battled with the giant spiders that ruled the Earth, between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas. But that is a tale for another day....
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Sorry, didn't mean to be cryptic. Tho' I'm glad you asked.
[SNIP]
-Derek
That made my night.
I wonder though: what evidence do we have that Neanderthal applied any special significance to the moon?
Also, hasn't new research indicated that Nature killed Neanderthals off, not Cro-Magnons? Something about not adapting well to climate shifts?
Also, even if there WAS a war, why should a cro-magnon divide, in their minds, these attacks neatly into sets of 13? Is there evidence that they had complicated ways of measuring time? For triskaidekaphobia to be ingrained in our DNA, as you're suggesting, Neanderthals would have had to have attacked us in sets of 13 for millions and millions of years. And why would the 14th attack be counted as the 1st attack of a new set by Cro-Magnon man? Wouldn't all these attacks just bleed into one another in our ancestors' minds?
triskaidekaphobia... triskaidekaphobia... triskaidekaphobia... must remember this word on Monday. I'm trying to find an English word she doesn't recognize.
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Random Movie Trivia!
In what movie is the following factoid presented?
"If spiders had evolved to be the size of housecats, humanity would be extinct."
(Not verbatim. Google-fu is cheating!)
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Apparently Neanderthal women wrote clay tablet diaries that complained about their husbands going out with the boys to get squiffed on mead every month, and staggering home at dawn to demand a mammoth steak breakfast. This is all pretty well documented. <whistles nonchalantly and shuffles off>
"new research" usually translates into otherwise unemployable scientists desperately looking for next year's funding. Salt is bad for you! No, we've changed our minds, salt's OK! No, salt is bad for you! Eh, shut up and pass the friggin salt...
-Derek
"new research" usually translates into otherwise unemployable scientists desperately looking for next year's funding. Salt is bad for you! No, we've changed our minds, salt's OK! No, salt is bad for you! Eh, shut up and pass the friggin salt...
-Derek
Derek and Bart have taken all the fun out of Friday the 13th by turning it into a freakin' history lesson.
There's 5 minutes of my life I can't get back...
There's 5 minutes of my life I can't get back...
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Not Neccessarily!
Since in the first one, the killer wasn't the kid in the mask it was his mother. In a frumpy Jumper.
So stay away from hockey masks and Wooly jumpers... hmmm.. basically, avoid ice and you should be fine.
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Don't pretend it didn't spark off your secret fantasy about being hit over the head with a club and dragged into a cave for afternoon delight.
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It comes from the Last Supper. Supposedly Christ sat down with his twelve apostles on a Friday, which made a 'party of thirteen', but Judas left before the 'last supper' arrangement was instituted, thereby falsifying the fear of Friday the 13ths; it should be a fear of Friday the 12ths.
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That's what I've always understood about 13-phobia. But I like the one about fear of teenagers better.
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Truthfully I'm not too sure what to say to a woman who thinks there's a high statistical probability that every man she talks to online is one of her exes.Damn...are you sure we've never met?
-Derek
I thought Friday 13th refered to the day on which the sealed orders from Pope Clement V were opened giving instructions for the Knights Templar to be rounded up. (Friday 13th October 1307).
I'm not a Templar (couldn't do the whole celibacy thing) so I should be alright.
I'm not a Templar (couldn't do the whole celibacy thing) so I should be alright.
Is this the one where they throw catfish out on the ice?
I'd be afraid of that, unless I had some cajun spices and a good appetite
Friday the 13th...my lucky day!
For example: My alarm woke me up this morning. I remembered to buy coffee yesterday. The receptionist got in early and ate all of the Godiva chocolates that came in yesterday..(ok...she saved me ONE...which is kinda bad luck cause I'm trying to lose pounds...but she ate the rest-good!)
It will only get better. It isn't noon yet!
Whoo Hooo!!!!
For example: My alarm woke me up this morning. I remembered to buy coffee yesterday. The receptionist got in early and ate all of the Godiva chocolates that came in yesterday..(ok...she saved me ONE...which is kinda bad luck cause I'm trying to lose pounds...but she ate the rest-good!)
It will only get better. It isn't noon yet!
Whoo Hooo!!!!