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Posted on 09/13/2013 2:48:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Friday is the sixth day of the week?
uhh . . . yes? Did I miss something?
We took a vote. You’d slipped out for a smoke.
Darnit.
"cuz"
Thought the whole Friday the 13th. thing came about when the Templar’s were wiped out during the Middle Ages. Happened on a Friday the 13th. From then it was considered an unlucky day.
I’m watching to see if this building they’re demolishing in Jackson Mich is going to fall on this 1860s church.
http://www.wilx.com/home/headlines/Highrise-Demolition-Threatening-Downtown-Jackson-223660311.html
I personally think the taxpayers are fixin to buy a very expensive church.
I always thought it stemmed from the Nights Templar being condemned and/or executed by the church on a Friday the 13th. Who knows?
bflr cuz that kitten looks like our l’il boy Petey, and I want to show the picture to Mrs. RQSR when she gets home.
Friday the 13th is only scary when the Chevy’s odometer turns over from 100,665 to 100,666 or any variation thereof:)
I didn’t know that today is the 13th, until about 60 seconds ago, seeing this thread.
You’re safe enough but the poor sod who posts the 13th posting to this thread is in a world of hurt.
Q: What is the word for the fear of long words made up to describe irrational fear?
A: Journalism.
-PJ
We’ve had 4.5 years of Friday the 13ths.
In 1942, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal took place on Friday, October 13th. Two American Admirals (Scott and Callahan) were killed on that night.
Halsey was a very superstitious man, as was the navy in general. Ships, as a rule, would not set sail on Friday the 13th, and would often wait until after midnight to set sail.
That early morning of Friday, 10/13/1942, Callaghan’s force comprised two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and eight destroyers, going up against a heavier Japanese force containing battleships.
From Wikipedia: “Around 01:30 on 13 November, Callaghan’s force intercepted Abe’s bombardment group between Guadalcanal and Savo Island. In addition to the two battleships, Abe’s force included one light cruiser and 11 destroyers. In the pitch darkness,the two warship forces intermingled before opening fire at unusually close quarters. In the resulting mêlée, Abe’s warships sank or severely damaged all but one cruiser and one destroyer in Callaghan’s force and both Callaghan and Scott were killed.”
There were so many plays on the number 13, the Captain of one of the ships graduated from the Naval Academy in 1913, the hull number of a ship added up to 13 and so on.
Ships were so close they were firing point blank into each other, it turned out to be a great equalizer of the lighter US ships because at that range (less than 400 yards in many cases) even a battlship’s heavier armor was no good against the six or eight inch shells.
It was a night battle, and they said when they fired the guns, they could see the impact on the enemy ships nearly instantaneously. It sounded like an old time battle between two sailing ships of the line with their cannons.
hahaha...I read today where, on Friday the 13th, flight 666 was leaving the USA for HEL (Helsinki)
How’d ya like to be on that plane???
LOL...I meant NOVEMBER 13th, 1942, not October...
Scott survived being on a hip sunk by a German submarine in World War I.
Great coincidence there, huh. Somewhere either in the Book of Daniel or Revelation that there was another number for the anti-Christ other than 666 (which is an infinite number shortened to 666) but anyway 616 has been used, 666 being the Hebrew interpretation of the name and 616 the Latin. Supposedly Nero’s name came out as 666.
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