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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by wlihntr
just another day...heres a question, who knows the orgin of friday the 13 (with out looking it up). here is a hint, it happened in the 14th centry.
If I recall correctly, it was the day the pope caused the arrest of the leaders of the Knights Templar ..........
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by alchymist
If I recall correctly, it was the day the pope caused the arrest of the leaders of the Knights Templar ..........
very good, is was actually King Philip IV who ordered it , but close enough
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 06:05 PM
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I have a problem with the number thirteen in general. Whenever something bad happens 13 is there more often than not.

This morning on Friday the 13th one of my employees managed to down load a spy ware virus. It took me 2 hrs and three programs to kill it.

Here's just a few of the times 13 reared it's ugly head,

Apollo 13
The only Concorde to crash was the thirteenth built
A woman goes thru her cycle every 28 days.. 356 divided by 28 = 13
There was 13 people at the last supper.
My engagement party was on March 13,1993 on that day the storm of the century hit NY.... party was canceled
My Grandfather died(RIP) on 8/2/03 add that up, yep 13
13 men went in to that mine a couple of weeks ago

Time for me to wrap my self in bubble wrap and lock myself up in the closet for the night
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 06:14 PM
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Does it have something to do with the plague?
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 06:22 PM
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well it almost turned out to be one, i replaced my pump diaphragm on my carb bout an hour ago and was taking it out for a test and well, i wasnt exactly easy on the gas and i was sideways on the only straight away on the mountain with tires spinnin and then bleh.... my truck just dies and rolls to a stop. luckily the house was only about a half mile up the strait so i ran back got my dad hopped in the jeep with some gas and tools checked the gas (tank pukes about an 1/8 tank a night so i was running it on a seperate fuel system that i rigged up) and it was out. that was a relief i just got back from driveing it up here.
so my answer is no i got lucky it wasnt something major
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 06:26 PM
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that explains why i got a speeding ticket today
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 07:07 PM
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I love Friday the 13th!
It was Friday the 13th when I met the girl I maried.
It was Friday the 13th when we got maried.
It was Friday the 13th when we saved our house from forclosure.

I'm fealing blessed on Friday the 13th, I made sure to step on all the cracks and walk under ladders today just to give a big middle finger to whatever evil may be lurking in the shadows.
 
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Old Jan 14, 2006 | 01:50 AM
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Well...I damn near made it through the day with nothing bad happening.....then about 11:50 pm I was on my way home, about 1 mile from my house, and I hit a patch of ice, ran thruogh a fence, and finally got my truck stopped by a convinentaly placed tree. It was my own fence, so I thought I would just back up drive home and fix everything tomorrow. So I started to back up, and I soon found out that my truck wouldn't turn and my brakes wouldn't brake, so then another conviently placed tree stopped me again. So now my truck is sitting in the middle of the road blocking both lanes, can't turn my truck and even if I could, I couldn't stop it. So I called my dad and he brought a tractor and drug me to the side of the road untill I can get a wrecker truck to haul my truck somewhere.

Before I left the house this afternoon, something told me to just stay home....but I just wouldn't listen.

Tim
 
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Old Jan 14, 2006 | 01:53 AM
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I thought about the 13th angle yesterday, and again just now cause you mentioned it!
 
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Old Jan 14, 2006 | 09:20 AM
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13 is a lucky number in Italy.... But neither Good or Bad luck effected me.
 
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Old Jan 14, 2006 | 10:12 AM
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yep- good old triskaidekaphobia-dont buy it.
 
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Old Jan 14, 2006 | 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by mistercmk
Bah, bring it on! My favorite day is Friday the 13th.
My favorite day too. What makes it even better--
a full moon on Friday the 13th sitting on top of a sand dune at the ORV park at Moses Lake watching the full moon
 
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