It's Friday the 13th

[Barmacral]

We we we so excited. We so excited.

[ineedfourberfs]

I only just realised and there is only 2 hours and 30-odd minutes left of it.

 

The worst thing that happened today? I forgot to buy onions and had to turn around and go back to the store. Cost me about 7 minutes.

[Verbal32]

Stupid timezones. It's only 10-something in the morning for me. Plenty of time to have something cool happen.

[Moon Sedai]

Today is our Starwars game, in which Moon, the innocent little crime lord, gets to outwit the jedi-PCs of the game.

 

Should be epic.

[Roxinos]

Heh...it's also my 13th monthaversary with my girlfriend.

[Moon Sedai]

Many years ago, June 6, 2006, I worked at a Kroger Grocery store when a guy came through the line buying flowers and a card for his wife. A person in line behind them said, "Woah, I just realized it's 666."

The guy looked around confused.

"It's my 6th wedding anniversary today, and it's 6/6/6??"

 

It was kinda funny.

[ed2funy]

I got inducted into the Signal Regiment on Friday the 13th.....

>_>

 

 

O_O

[Guest Czechs In The M'Hael]

Every day should be Friday 13th.

 

Does anyone have any idea what the taboo originated from?

[ineedfourberfs]

Sometime in the 19th century according to Wikipedia's research.

 

Popularised by... hell I'm not typing this out:

 

One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.

 

In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, twelve gods of Olympus, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.

 

Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales,[3] and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects. Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s.[6][7] It has also been suggested that Friday has been considered an unlucky day because, according to Christian scripture and tradition, Jesus was crucified on a Friday.[8]

A theory by author Charles Panati, one of the leading authorities on the subject of "Origins," maintains that the superstition can be traced back to ancient myth:

 

The actual origin of the superstition, though, appears also to be a tale in Norse mythology.

 

Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday, the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, plus the devil — a gathering of thirteen — and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries in Scandinavia, Friday was known as "Witches' Sabbath."[9]