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High Noon: 3 Friday The 13ths In ‘12

Posted by DFO

Jan. 13, 2012 11:50 a.m. • 7 comments

Shame on Ben Franklin. The man who exhibited his brilliance when he said, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” left a glaring omission on his short list of life's inevitabilities (death and taxes). Barring the former, Friday the 13th is unavoidable, and it's back again today in all its ominous glory. Here's the real bad news: This is one of three in the first seven months of 2012. That's as many as one year can have. We skated through 2011 with the minimum of one, in May - the same day the National Weather Service issued a flood warning for the Yaak River. Coincidence?/Kim Briggeman, Missoulian. More here.

Question: Are you superstitious, believing that bad luck haunts Friday the 13th, broken mirrors, black cats, etc.?

Seven comments on this post so far. Add yours!

duroc on January 13 at 12:03 p.m.
None of the above.
Eman on January 13 at 12:19 p.m.
Ditto duroc, just another day.
Just happened to be the day the king of France arrested all the Knights Templar to get out of debt so it took on a tale of it’s own.
Just another day.
Kage_Mann on January 13 at 12:19 p.m.
This Friday the 13th superstition came about, because of a movie from 1980.
fortboise on January 13 at 1:08 p.m.
The one good thing about the coincidence is… a lovely portmanteau of word roots to add to our vocabulary: triskaidekaphobia. I have neither that nor triskaidekaphilia. I do have a certain numerophilia, but 13 doesn’t strike me as all that special.

Some day I’ll post that presentation I came up with after a little encouragement from a friend who taught math during her career, on my favorite numbers. (i, phi, pi, and e)
greenlibertarian on January 13 at 1:13 p.m.
No.

{checks acorn in pocket, tosses salt over left shoulder}
Stickman on January 13 at 7:11 p.m.
No. Today was actually a great day, as many others in my life.
mrd on January 13 at 9:03 p.m.
No.