Friday the 13th June 2008

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Does Friday the 13th effect you?

Oh yeah. I'm not leaving my house until after midnight
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Friday the 13th June 2008

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Does Friday the 13th effect you at all or is it just something to talk about?

I just spoke to a woman at a store that rattled off about 25 things that have gone wrong this morning and she wished me good luck and said I should be careful today.
I thanked her for her kind words but I don't think all the rotten things that are going to happen in the world wait until a certain day to spring their trap.

I'm guessing things will play out as they normally would but perhaps you feel otherwise.
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Truthfully, I'm with you, Tom.
But, it is fun to blame things on the day when possible.
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I read a study about Friday the 13th and they proved it to be a bunch of BS. If everyone expects something to go wrong it will. Sumconcious motives.
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did not realize today was friday the 13th until you mentioned it tom.
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sgt.null wrote:did not realize today was friday the 13th until you mentioned it tom.
Sorry to have to break it to you, Bub. :biggrin:
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To be perfectly honest, I look forward to Friday the 13th as they tend to be better days than usual for me. I guess I'm the yang to everyone else's yin
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I got married on a Friday the 13th. Deliberately. So no, I don't think there's anything to it. So what if we're divorced now? :lol:
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That is so cool, cag.
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Post by Sorus »

I am not at all superstitious, but I have had enough truly awful things happen to me on Friday the 13th to kind of wonder...

Not this time around, though. Today is going to rock. :biggrin:

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It's just bunch of hype. I've had worse days that weren't Friday the 13th.
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Yup. It's just a number.
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Yes, but it's a number with a stigma.
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Stigma, schmigma........
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I think it gives people an excuse to focus only on the negative things that happen today, and not the positive. But there's the same probability of good/bad things happening today as there is any other day.

On top of that, it's my ladyfriend, Claire's, birthday today. :D
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Balon wrote:I think it gives people an excuse to focus only on the negative things that happen today, and not the positive. But there's the same probability of good/bad things happening today as there is any other day.

On top of that, it's my ladyfriend, Claire's, birthday today. :D
Maybe we should invent an opposite? a lucky day instead of an unlucky one? I was going to propose a saturday the somethingth, but with most people not at work, it wouldn't get talked about.

How about Friday the 7th's?
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I like that idea, Stone. And a lot of people associate the number 7 as a lucky number, for whatever reason.

...off to the birthday thread to wish Claire a happy birthday...
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Stonemaybe wrote:
Balon wrote:I think it gives people an excuse to focus only on the negative things that happen today, and not the positive. But there's the same probability of good/bad things happening today as there is any other day.

On top of that, it's my ladyfriend, Claire's, birthday today. :D
Maybe we should invent an opposite? a lucky day instead of an unlucky one? I was going to propose a saturday the somethingth, but with most people not at work, it wouldn't get talked about.

How about Friday the 7th's?
I dig that, man.

Friday the Seventh.

Maybe they'll make a MOVIE about it! :D
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Post by Cheval »

I voted "Um...I guess so"... but for a different reason.
While everyone else is moping around and bummed about Friday the 13th,
this is usually this day brings GOOD luck for me.
(I know - I'm weird.) :twisted:

So far today:
1) I've won the (so-called) dart tournament at work,
2) Found a $20 bill,
3) Didn't get caught in rush-hour traffic because we left work 1 hour early,
4) Chatted a friend that I haven't seen in 4 years.

And how was YOUR day?
Have you hugged your arghule today?
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