Triskaidekaphobia

[CajunCenturion]

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[AnotherHiggins]

Yes, but would a triskaidekaphobe want to be on a plane or a ship on Friday the 13th?

Granted, Santa, that if timed correctly they would skip the 13th altogether. But it is doubtful that the timing would be perfect enough to avoid any part of Friday the 13th.

But if you are just a triskaidekaphobe, why would Friday the 13th be any more troubling that the 13th of any month, regardless of the day of the week?

Now, friggatriskaidekaphobes on the other hand....

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[SantaMufasa]

Now, friggatriskaidekaphobes on the other hand....

Sounds immoral to me.<grin>

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[Lunatic]

@anotherhiggins

http://astrology.about.com/od/traditionalhistory/l/aa101300a.htm

This backs up what I saw on a History Channel show... That unlucky association with Friday the 13th dates back to the end of the Kights Templar, who saw something like 1,000 of their number arrested throughout France on Friday, October the 13th, 1307 AD (Old Style).

 

[SantaMufasa]

Triskaidekaphobia"...not to be confused with "Triscuit-deck-aphobia", the fear of a stack of 52 Triscuit wheat crackers/biscuits falling on you, causing slight injury.<grin>

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[gbaughma]

Ugh, Dave.... that was bad... even for you.

Really... I would have expected something like that from Tim, but not from you!





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[AnotherHiggins]

Thanks for the link, Lunatic.

It strikes me as funny that your nick is "Lunatic" and we're talking about Friday the 13th. Because everyone knows that the only thing worse than Friday the 13th is a Friday the 13th with a full moon.

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[Lunatic]

To add to it... I was at 30,000+ feet twice on Friday, October 13th, 2006 ;p

Thankfully no one on my flights made anything out of it. Though my co-workers ranted about the people on their flights who wouldn't shut up about it.

 

[karluk]

For what it's worth, my calculations confirm CorBlimeyLimey's assertion that there are 688 Friday 13ths in any 400 year period.

The most interesting thing about the calculation is WHY the slight bias toward Friday 13th persists over the centuries. It's because in the Gregorian calendar there are an even number of weeks in 400 years. There are 97 leap years and 303 regular years during the 400 year period for a total of 97*366 + 303*365 = 146,097 days = 20,871 weeks. Thus the pattern of Friday 13ths that began on Jan. 1, 2000 will repeat itself starting on Jan. 1, 2400.

Some day in the distant future the Gregorian calendar will fall a full day out of sync with the actual length of an Earth year. That will require a special one-time leap year adjustment. The new 400-year repeating pattern will then produce only 684 Friday 13ths, which as CorBlimeyLimey points out, is the minimum value.

 

[Gooser]

->all the serial killers had 13 letters in their names

Well that is just patently silly.

Is it? A New Thread?

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[tsdragon]

Jack the Ripper" has 13 letters, but I seriously doubt that his mother was Mrs The Ripper, so I don't think it really applies. From what I've heard, the person(s) who came up with that claim really had to stretch to force some of the serial killers' names to be 13 letters.

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[MeGustaXL]

Friday 13th October 2006...

I was watching a Queen tribute band in Mano's Bar in Magaluf.

I danced so much that I gave myself Plantar Fasciitis, and I'm still limping and taking anti-inflammatories..

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[Lunatic]

Tracy

Agreed... Using proper names in some cases rather than commonly known names and vice-a-versa. Using middle name in some cases but not others.

Take for example the two in Gooser's thread on another forum I haven't asked to join...

1. john wayne gacy
2. theodore bundy

The examples are inconsisent. John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy were the popular names in media. However if you want to use proper names then it would be Theodore Robert Bundy which is more than 13.

This is like the statician that runs 50 variations of a model until he/she finds the one he/she likes. If you play around with it long enough you can make it fit, but you've destroyed the integrity of it.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Tracy,

You and I both used the "Jack the Ripper" example 20 minutes apart in two different forums. Not that's spooky.

Great minds.... Er, something like that anyway.

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[tsdragon]

To be perfectly honest, I got the 13-letters-in-their-names and Jack the Ripper bit from Craig Ferguson's late night show of Friday the 13th. I thought what he said about it was interesting, and true, so I remembered it.

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