Happy Friday the 13th!

Its a special day for the folks over at the Intersection of 13 and 13... Friday the 13th! Why is 13 considered unlucky? I really have no clue. Lets do some research. Or maybe even ask Jeeves [havent been over to visit that fucker in a while]

Paraskevidekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th

The Devil's DozenIt is said: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, all will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue**. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. 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). There are 13 witches in a coven.

[**had to bold that... who knew Calgary was so stupid..or maybe clever... to still have both...and even worse, for this idiot to live there]

The article goes on about the number 13:
something about the last supper and the norse god Loki
somthing about neandrathals and counting

And now fridays:
friday was execution day in England and Rome
christ crucified, tower of babel destroyed on friday
freya--named after the goddess of sex and fertility [uhhh thats a bad thing? sound good to me!]

So what have we learned? Well, not much. Stranger still is that Im not actually afraid of Friday the 13th...thats strange cuz Im very supersticious, believe in horoscopes, and think i can see ghosts.

Should we just chalk the fear of Friday the 13th on Hollywood? Damn, maybe if they woulda had a knife wielding maniac in a hockey mask attack people on Thursday the 12th there'd be a different story.