Posted by: alisyacullen on: March 13, 2009
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LiveScience Staff
If Friday the 13th is unlucky, then 2009 is an unusually unlucky year. This week’s Friday the 13th is one of three to endure this year.
The first came last month. The next is in November. Such a rare triple-threat occurs only once every 11 years.
The origin of the link between bad luck and Friday the 13th is murky. The whole thing might date to Biblical times (the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus). By the Middle Ages, both Friday and 13 were considered bearers of bad fortune. In modern times, the superstition permeates society.
Here are five of our favorite Friday-the-13th facts:
1. Fear of Friday the 13th – one of the most popular myths in science – is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
2. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.
3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.
4. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. “It was bad luck,” Twain later told the friend. “They only had food for 12.” Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.
5. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number – 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen.
yea. meron pa isa. sabi kapag ang first day of any month is sunday, present ang friday the 13th. malamang. astig nga e. 3 buwan meron ganyan. feb. march. nov. buti nalang wala sept. well. di naman ako naniniwala na malas ang friday the 13th. wala pa naman nangyayari saken o sa family ko kapag ganyang araw. kasi di naman totoo. haha. hmm. ano lang, BM lang. haha. pero kanina, todo iwas kami ni bryce at kish sa mga sasakyan. haha. iwas aksidente muna. gragraduate pa kami. saka na kapag tapos na. haha. di joke lang. so ayun. kamiss yung mga lakad moments namin. kasama pa si det nun. kwentuhan hanggang sa sakayan, minsan di pa namamalayan na nandun na pala kami. kamiss. iba na kasi e. sabi ko nga ke kish, weather-weather lang yan. haha. ayun. so practice kanina. aga sa school. la lang. kwentuhan with ms. fi. napala ko. yan kasi, nakipag-pustahan pa. haha. ayun. nakakuha ako ng pampalubag-loob sa kanya about sa UST. sorry. gusto ko talaga dun e. makulit lang si masamang konsensya. haha. ayun. nilibre ako ni mhel sa mcdo. naawa ata saken. loner. HAHAHA! tas me nakita ako/kami sa mcdo. sh*t. kala ko ako lang nakapansin nung una, pansin rin pala ni mhel. pero syempre, di yun. di yun. haha. ayun. so practice again ng mass songs. mas masaya siya ngayon *smug. tas yung sa grad na mismo. nakalimutan ko kung ano tawag dun e. hmm. buti nalang makakalimutin ako. me advantage rin pala. haha. swakto. ayun. so uwi. lakad hanggang sakayan. yun nga kasama si bryce and kish. kwentuhan sa mga pedeng mangyari samen kapag college na kami. saya nga e. me advice pa si bryce. as if naman mangyayari yun. mangyayari man yun sa tamang panahon. haha. so yun. kapagod pero masaya. minsan boring pero masaya rin naman. makita ko lang siyang masaya, masaya na rin ako. yes. haha.
ge pampalipas oras lang. kailangan mag-unwind. magsisimula na ako sa. tsk. err. haha.
di pala ako pure na noypi. kaya pala… haha. tik-tak!
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