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| 2079.1 | Friday the what? | BATVX0::SMITH_M | Martin Smith, Evry (F). - 858 4896. | Fri Oct 13 1995 04:25 | 9 |
| � Anybody out there with bad feelings about today (Friday 13th)?
I didn't even realise it was "Friday the 13th" until reading your
note.
Nothing untoward coming into the office this morning; even the fog
was not as *thick* as yesterday morning.
Martin.
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| 2079.2 | Hadn't even realised it was friday! | BIS54::DYSON | | Fri Oct 13 1995 05:39 | 6 |
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I hadn't realised either. No nothing bad here. I always felt that if we
were to have an unlucky day it should be a monday, cos they are always
lousy.
Adam
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| 2079.3 | | STRATA::LUCHT | Is it a passion or just a profession? | Fri Oct 13 1995 07:18 | 8 |
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My machines have been running miserably, the worst in months!!!!
I'd better be careful driving home.
Later!
Kev --
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| 2079.4 | Good Friday the 13th! | REGENT::NIKOLOFF | STOP Global Whining | Fri Oct 13 1995 10:30 | 14 |
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Well, I believe that it is my "good" luck day.
Why? Because I am left-handed and it is reversed
for all the left-handed folks..
*8-)
Mikki
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| 2079.5 | | WRKSYS::MACKAY_E | | Fri Oct 13 1995 10:30 | 18 |
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re .0
Sorry to hear about the flat tire - they are a pain.
I don't pay much attention to friday the 13th. For me,
the chance of anything going haywire is just as good on
any day as today. As a matter of fact, in Cantonese, the
2 characters that make up 13, are very close in pronounciation
with 2 characteristics that mean "alive for certain" or
"certain to have a baby", either of which is positive.
So the cup can be 1/2 full or 1/2 empty depending on
one's attitude. ;-)
Enjoy the day - it is beautiful out there...
Eva
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| 2079.6 | | VYGER::BEVERIDGEG | | Fri Oct 13 1995 11:06 | 12 |
| Heard on the radio at lunchtime that one insurance company reckons that
the risk of having an accident on the 13th increases by 52%. Probably
because people are to busy worrying about the date and not
concentrating on their driving.
I suppose you are right, Eva, when you say that it doesen't really
matter what day /date it is - if something is going to go wrong, it
will regardless.
Only another 9 hours to go 8^)
Gavin_trying_not_to_be_toooo_paranoid!!!!!!!!!!!
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| 2079.7 | | APSMME::RAMSAY | | Fri Oct 13 1995 12:11 | 6 |
| .4 Mikki
I'm left-handed also!
Some cultures believe that 13 is a lucky number and Friday is an
auspiciously good day.
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| 2079.8 | woman's number? | PCBUOA::DBROOKS | | Fri Oct 13 1995 13:54 | 12 |
| .7 -
Would those be women, by any chance? (as in, number of moon-months, or
menstrual cycles, in a year)
A Paleolithic stone carving in southern France - the so-called 'Venus
of Laussel' - holds a crescent-shaped horn with 13 notches. Maybe she
thought it was lucky!
Just a thought,
Dorian
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| 2079.9 | | APSMME::RAMSAY | | Fri Oct 13 1995 15:06 | 7 |
| .8 Dorian
I was thinking of Arab cultures; I know someone who was born and raised
in Egypt, who said Friday that 13th was very lucky in the area of
Alexandria where he grew up.
*Stella*
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| 2079.10 | | WMOIS::CONNELL | Story does that to us. | Fri Oct 13 1995 15:31 | 10 |
| I adore Friday the 13th and all the fun one can have. This morning, one
of our facility workers set up a ladder in our work area. I proceeded
to walk under it a number of times. All to get somewhere for legitimate
work purposes. Of course, I was accused of tempting fate. No one knew
that I was saying protective mantras and chants and the whole White
Light protection number while I was doing this.
Bright Blessings,
PJ
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| 2079.11 | | PCBUOA::DBROOKS | | Fri Oct 13 1995 16:05 | 10 |
| .9
Egypt - interesting!
It reminds me of dragons - they get rather bad press in our cultures,
but others (Oriental I think?) think they're cool.
Thanks,
Dorian
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| 2079.12 | Friday the 13th | TNPUBS::PAINTER | Planet Crayon | Fri Oct 13 1995 16:21 | 12 |
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Excerpt from: A Woman's Worth, by Marianne Williamson
"We are used to thinking of Friday the thirteenth as bad luck. In
fact, Friday the thirteenth was the day the witches gathered. When the
patriarchal system, headed by the early church, began to squelch the
power of women, witches were deemed evil, and many great women were
deemed witches. Their meeting time, then, was seen as bad luck rather
than as what it truly was: a time for women to gather and share energy
and pray together and heal."
Cindy
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| 2079.13 | | IJSAPL::ANDERSON | The finest justice money can buy! | Mon Oct 16 1995 08:34 | 14 |
| Re ladders and the walking under them.
I never really thought about walking under ladders until I was about 16
and was an apprentice on the railways. I was working with a pole squad,
out on the line, and had been warned never to stand under or near a
ladder.
Naturally I forgot and got bawled out several times, then they taught me
a lesson. I was standing under a ladder when a rather large hammer was
dropped from above and landed between my feet. The message was so
thoroughly knocked home, that to this day I will not walk under a
ladder that has someone on it.
Jamie.
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