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Machiavellian · Group Performer Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 4398

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Papa 3 · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:00 am Post subject:

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MT VESSELS · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:20 am Post subject:

Some intersting facts

fear of Friday the 13th is rooted in ancient, separate bad-luck associations with the number 13 and the day Friday. The two unlucky entities combine to make one super unlucky day.
There is a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Balder died and the Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned.
There is a Biblical reference to the unlucky number 13. Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to the Last Supper.
A particularly bad Friday the 13th occurred in the middle ages. On a Friday the 13th in 1306, King Philip of France arrested the revered Knights Templar and began torturing them, marking the occasion as a day of evil.
In ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil.
Both Friday and the number 13 were once closely associated with capital punishment. In British tradition, Friday was the conventional day for public hangings, and there were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose.

And a couple more

More than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor.
Many airports skip the 13th gate.
Airplanes have no 13th aisle.
Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.
On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half.
Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue
In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.
Many triskaidekaphobes, as those who fear the unlucky integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.
If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck . Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names.

MT jnr
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Andy · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:05 am Post subject:

What a load of nonsense!

Papa 3 · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:42 am Post subject:

gromero · Group Performer Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 3506

I consider it a good day:

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dogsaver · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:36 am Post subject:

jeffery archer is another devil then

johne5knuckle · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:33 pm Post subject:

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Papa 3 · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject:

The Holy Spirit..........We are all doomed, doomed I tell ye.

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Rowan · Group Performer Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 8147

There's no flat 13 in my building.

With two winners for Nicky Henderson, and seeing the War Horse puppet, I'd had a really good day today (despite the weather), but came home to find one Elite's new jumping purchases dropped dead on the gallops this morning.

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