BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?

Subject: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:16 PM

This coming Friday witll be the Thirteenth.

Anyone have any special plans or traditions for this?

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:19 PM

To avoid a skull fracture.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:20 PM

In my family we have always observed the day before Friday the thirteenth as "Thursday, the twelfth". Some of us extend this to honoring the following day as "Saturday, the fourteenth".

Is that what you mean?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: skipy
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:21 PM

Recently you guys knocked 1 April my wedding anni, now you choose to knock Friday 13th - my birfday!
Skip

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:25 PM

We will securely lock up our two black cats, just as we do on Halloween.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Seaking
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:37 PM

I get a long awaited final exam result next Friday, my plan is to celebrate - or blame the date !

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:39 PM

I'm not knocking it. I usually buy a lottery ticket on Friday the 13th, as it is more lucky for me than other days... of so it seems.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:50 PM

I shall not go skydiving, hang-gliding, or rock-climbing. The fact that I've neither done nor have any intentions of ever doing any of those three activities is irrelevent. I still won't be doing them this Friday.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 05:51 PM

Thought I'd walk under a ladder or two.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 06:07 PM

I celebrate by curling up in a corner, fetal-like, and quivering.























Wait, I do that every day....

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Peace
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 06:08 PM

"RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?"

Before or after the beheading?

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 06:16 PM

Watching out for a message from Flash Company on this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: skipy
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 06:23 PM

Never walk under a black cat!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 06:42 PM

Being a staunch antitriskaidekaphobe I will:
- not wear odd socks or my vest inside out for the day
- establish ladders around the house so I can walk under them frequently
- pop down to the pet shop and replace our recently departed moggy with an all-black one
- go up to every priest I meet and shake him/her by the hand

Meanwhile, Nessie (another antitriskaidekaphobe) will be spending the whole 24 hours of the day on a plane to Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:03 PM

"Never walk under a black cat!"


I have 2 black cats whom I never walk under...but what happens if they walk OVER me?? Would seem only fair that they get the bad luck, eh?

I have to say that all in all Friday the 13th has generally turned out to be a good day for me in the past, so I look forward to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Peace
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:06 PM

Paraskavedekatriaphobia: Go figger!

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:08 PM

"Recently you guys knocked 1 April my wedding anni, now you choose to knock Friday 13th - my birfday!" Skipy

What were you thinking?!

Just kidding. The way I got myself out of superstitious rituals was to deliberately think or say things like- Oh, there's a black cat in my path. I'm going to have a good day today.

Eventually my brain just gave up.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: bobad
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:09 PM

Paraskavedekatriaphobia - fear of long Greek words?

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:11 PM

Now there's a lark for you!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 07:47 PM

I plan to hold mass arrests of all the Knights Templar, torture them to discover the whereabouts of their treasure, and then have them put to death or thrown in dungeons for life.

Peter, A/K/A Phillip...

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: folk1e
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 08:03 PM

Black Cats are supposed to be LUCKY!
Me, I usually try to breath in and out at leas once every 60 seconds (dependant on what I am doing!)....... works every time for me.
Other than that it is the same sh1t another day!

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 11:23 PM

My office is home to some 175 realtors....a decision was made to move to bigger and better space but some lunatic decreed the day be this Friday the 13th. I am a quivering wreck. My office will be in boxes, my office phone won't be working, I will have no order in my life over the weekend, and all in all - it's not a pretty thought. And I lose the view of the water I have had for over five years now and swap it for a view of the highway.......

Fairly typical Friday 13th perhaps? Just remembering to avoid black cats like the plague......

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 12:22 AM

Oh, TrueBrit!{{{HUGS}}}} Take the day off and know it will all come out smooth after the weekend.:-) (Sorry about the view loss, though.)

I have always taken great delight in Friday the 13th being a lucky day for me, so I look forward to it. It seems kind of odd, though, first time in my life I've been without a black cat.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 12:34 AM

Us too! Our black kitty had to be sent to his maker this year - cancer....nasty stuff. I shall be forced to take the day off because they are doing a lockdown at work!!!!!! Everything has to be moved across town and real estate agents tend to be Type A personalities like me so the only way to stop us working is to literally lock us out. Thank you for your condolences..... I am considering sulking for quite a while over losing my view.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 12:50 AM

Snow may be in the forecast so it should be just about right to set sail for some place warm.
Deb, don't go to work, stay home, you can always work from there.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 06:57 AM

ah haaaaaaaa it's my Birthday too

I'll be doing something lovely, that doesn't involve working at all. Having the day orf!

Happy birthday for Friday Skipy from another Friday the 13ther

Ella who is Sooze

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 06:58 AM

PS... was born on a Friday too.... ok for me, a bit of a pain for me mam

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 07:04 AM

I'm hoping to be in Whitby getting some fresh air, sunshine and exercise (I may walk to Sandsend and back) - before I go back to work next week.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 08:13 AM

Port Dover, Ontario.

On the shores of Lake Erie.

Bikers, thousands of em! Every Friday the 13th!

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 08:24 AM

Shucks Debbie, you're only looking out on bits of Portland. Now if it was somewhere scenic you'd have a reason to get upset.
Giok ¦¬]

(yes folks it's a wee joke!}

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: MMario
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 09:01 AM

"we" are doing a major network maintainence and upgrade operation. What a date to choose! Unfortunately it falls on what is traditionally the lowest use weekend for our network (most of the schools we support are on vacation friday)

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 09:52 AM

I'm already unlucky... I have to work!

But my black cat has so far failed to throw himself out of a top floor window so that's good.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 10:08 AM

Happy Birthday, Skipy and Ella who is Sooze!

Deb, glad to hear you don't have to be a part of the moving melee!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: rock chick
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 12:22 PM

Eeekkkk I forgot it was the 13th, I have a dentist appointment ;^/

Am I superstitious.....NO no no

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 01:02 PM

"Friday the 13th come on a FRIDAY this month?"

    Churchy LaFemme

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 11:04 PM

Giok -- seeing as I know you live in the Scottish highlands, - one of the most beautiful places in the world we can forgive your 'wee joke' about Portland........but it is a great view I am losing. Think I'll take Barry's advice and stay home -- another snow storm coming in on Thursday -- will it ever end.....?

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 03:02 AM

Thanks Kat.

I am intending to try to have a nice time :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 04:05 AM

There you go Debs, the views from MY window over several seasons.
I know how I'd feel if I lost it, so I do commiserate with you really.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 07:33 AM

I lost me office view from the Welsh mountains and a castle, to all I can see now is a bus stop, a college building and cars... ... but HEY! it's nearly Friday!

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 09:04 AM

I think I'll avoid the plague like, well, like the plague....

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Schantieman
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 03:53 PM

I'll nearly be setting sail - will actually be in a dinghy tomorrow (Thurs) and at sea in a motor boat on Sat. On Friday I'll be safely sitting in a classroom on Whale Island.

Apparently (I learn from a recently acquired book) some time early in the last century (doesn't it seem strange to talk of the 20th like that?) the Royal Navy wanted to disprove the myth that it was unlucky to go to sea on a Friday.   So they ordered a new ship on a Friday, its keel was laid on a Friday and it was launched on a Friday. They even found a Captain by the name of Friday to command it and of course it set sail on its maiden voyage on a Friday.





It was never heard of again.



Or so it says.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 07:10 PM

Did they perhaps have 13 or multiples of 13 in crew, Steve? That could have been the last straw.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 07:15 PM

The Gospel Messengers will be opening for a renowned black gospel group, The Swanne Quintet, on Friday the 13th..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 07:41 PM

I intend to drive drunk down the wrong side of the highway, walk into local bars and insult big guys with tattoos, and then see if I can rob the Imperial Bank armed with only a squirt gun and a tongue depressor.

I want to see if there's really anything to this Friday the Thirteenth nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 10:25 PM

Giok - for once, I am speechless! What wonderful pictures - such colors -- really gorgeous. I will now officially stop whining over my lost view -- it pales into insignificance against views like these.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 04:57 AM

Gainsborough Folk Club in the evening if I live through the rest of the day....having chip butties at the club!    NOOOO not a guest but food!

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 05:28 AM

singing session Friday night!

Giok - I wasn't speechless, I kept saying "oooh" & have sent the link to a photographer friend.

TRUBRIT - the view from my window is onto the walls & windows of the next building, & sometimes the folks in the next building, who occasionally forget they can be viewed!

My view on my computer desk is lovely postcards & pictures - sunset, autumn gardens, a snowy scene, polar bears, waterfalls. Can you cover your walls with beautiful pics, or one beautiful pic of your lost view? Or maybe just 1 pic on your desk if your office does not allow private decorations?

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 10:11 AM

I'm really looking forward to spending a very quiet day at home, for a change. The day after I got back from a very enjoyable, but exhausting festival, I had to run around doing things for my daughter, and the more low-key day today was not as restful as I had hoped either. So tomorrow is going to be just for me - catching up on little things around the house and the garden, and generally enjoying pottering.

The weekend is shaping up to be rather busy, so I'm going to give tomorrow night's session a miss - not like me, but I need the break.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:30 PM

Well, I'll start the day at 9 o'clock playing for a dance for three hours, then I'll have breakfast at that hall, then I'll jam with whoever will have me. Along about 3:00 I'll come home and spend time with my critters. Around 6 o'clock I'll go to a different hall where the Folk Festival is being put on, where I'll soak up the music until 11 o'clock when I'll either go home for the night or to just drop by home briefly to take the leetle dog out and go back to one of the numerous jammng spots.

By Thursday most of the out of towm musicians are here for the Festival - many of whome we see only once a year - and it is also the first concert of the Guest Artists. This year's GAs are the Carolina Chocolate Drops and, from everything we have heard, we anticipate enjoying them hugely.

Subject: RE: BS: Friday the thirteenth- Any plans?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 04:14 PM

ah, Ebbie...you will want to keep them!