As it happens, I checked the frequency of 'lucky Fridays' and indeed they come around a b o u t once a year. But not next year! January 13 falls on a Friday - and so does October 13, which really worries me. It´s my birthday!

At our house we gather 'round the flaming obyss of brimstone and chant our favorite latin incantations, backwards of course, before we rip into some drunk chick we'll call "Mary" and drink our holiday spiced bloody mary's. Later we drop by the little bungalow Hitler and Jeffrey Dahlmer share for games and laughs.

That bungalow is commonly Known as the Kennedy Compound. Many a drunk chick has been taken advantage of there.

I have a tradition of mocking superstitious people on Friday the 13th.

Friday the 13th is a wonderful day for sacrificing hamsters and dancing nekkid before the ritual fire.

...by the way, I am still waiting for ACLU tee shirt babes number!

Bozark,
Of course you can have her number.

Send lots of cash attention IMAO.

Afterwards, we'll send you her phone number. Tthe woman on the phone might answer -Nancy Pelosi's office - but that's just code.

Remember, the more cash you send, th

On Friday the 13th, our entire family gathers together until one of us is horribly murdered. We then separate to go find the killer, either alone or in groups of two. The nerdiest member of the family always goes alone. The newlyweds always go together so they can find a secluded spot to make love. The funny black guy goes alone, as does the jock, the georgeous blonde, and the visiting psychology professor. By the end of the evening, only the attractive-but-not-too-attractive brunette is left.

Ah, family gatherings.

I collect black cats throughout the course of the year, and every Thursday the 12th I FedEx them overnight to Frank J. I'm sure he'll find a good use for them.

On Friday the 13th Eve, we enjoy going to Midnight [Black] Mass.

Friday the 13th morning the whole neighborhood gets together for a fun lottery. It’s fun for everyone… everyone except the “winner” that is.

I try to cross the path of a black cat.

Ah Memories. I loved black cats. We'd go down to the black cat lot and get a big one. Of course, mom always wanted it get get sprayed with that snow stuff.

Staffan, RWD - Friday the 13th comes around on average 1.72 times a year. As it turns out, Friday is the most common day of the week for the 13th to fall on (because of how our calendar is set up).

Hey, look at this - research. (Don't get used to it guys)

Here is where the 13th falls/fell this year.

Feb - Sunday
March -Sunday
November Sunday

June Monday

December Tuesday
September Tuesday

April Wednesday
July Wednesday

Jan - Thursday
October Thursday

May Friday

August Saturday

In another interesting note, the 13th appears to fall on the 13th every month. Even leap year.

Thanks for the info RWD, I guess I can get from underneath my desk now. I was worried the 13th was going to fall on the 14th and keep my tivo from recording my favorite tv show.

Remember a movie called “Saturday the 14th?”

I don’t.

I was never superstitious about Friday the 13ths, before the last one on Friday August 13, 2004.

That's the day I spent four hours huddled with my family in a closet while hurricane Charley battered my house.

Now I'm just a bit worried. Just a bit, mind you.

Usually I celebrate by contributing to the deliquency of animals:

killer quirrel

Chaika,

Please tell me that's a photoshopped picture.

I always wondered if Teddy had pets.

I have no idea if the picture's photoshopped. I got it from my friend Vato via a forwarded forwarded forwarded email. My guess is somebody found a dead squirrel and put that all together. I'm sure somebody who knows photoshop could tell if that's not the case.

Oh my gosh. That squirrel picture was taken at my college by some guys on a frat I knew. God knows how they caught that squirrel. My ex-boyfriend took the picture.

In true Friday the 13th style, me and all my wiccan friends gather around the big spooky tree in the middle of the field. We wear our freshly skinned and stitched pig skin masks and entrail cloaks. We sing in latin and dance hippieishly around the black flame of our evil campfire. In order to conjure the wicked demon of chaos we must all drink the blood of a virgin and have group sex just like at the DNC. Then I go home and quickly wash off my mascarea and black nail polish before my dad gets home and beats me up for being "queer" again. Damn I hate my dad. With love, EvIlOnE666

Uh. Suzanne, are you saying that it's a picture of YOU?

Not that there's anything wrong with that. you are quite, uh, er .

um.

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Every time there's a Friday the 13th we celebrate by acting like it's just any other Friday. Oh and we gather around our giant Karl Rove alter and sacrifice a Caribou to appease the oil gods at Haliburton.

Pete,

Yeah, I remember that movie. It was so long ago that I can't remember what it was about or anything but I remember seeing bits and pieces of it and remarking that someone was trying to make money off of the Friday the 13th movies.

RWD,

Did a big rock fall on your head during your comments to Bozark? You just ended mid sentence. Maybe you started your Friday the 13th party too soon.

Everyone knows that evil right-wing conservatives sacrifice hungry children to the big oil gods on Friday the 13th. Or is that just me?

Just FYI (Pete) here's a link to a rundown about Saturday the 14th.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083033/

They also did a remake. The original is from 1981 which makes sense as to why I don't remember much of it, I was 9. The remake was in 1988 or 1989 and I don't remember that at all.

Just do a search on imdb.com for "Saturday the 14th" and you'll find both.

Thanks Leuthen. I might watch it tommorrow... or not. All I remember is that guy that plays Kramer (don't know his real name and am too lazy to look it up) was in it.

Hey Fri. the 13th and our airconditioner went out at work and it's hotter than haides.

Coincidence? I think not!

H-a-d-e-s... doesn't look right but it is.

My bad: Michael Richards, AKA Kramer, was never in Sat the 14th. I must have been thinking of Transylvania 6-5000, another fine picture from what I recall… which is apparently not much.

Pete,

Since I'm an HVAC service technician I would be more than happy to help you. However, knowing you're most likely at least a state away from Georgia, I'm afraid all I can do is offer my condolensences (sp?) on your A/C at work.

PS - It always happens on Friday, not just Friday the 13th. If I had a dollar for every A/C that died on a Friday I could retire tomorrow.........which of course would allow me even more time to spend at IMAO.........double edged sword no? :-)

I like to remind folks that it's bad luck to be superticious. And those stories about the extreme right wing celebrations were actually doctored accounts of liberal celebrations on April 15. * shudder *