2006-10-13 07:16:06 · 13 answers · asked by lovingirl 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
I like it because so many other people hate it. And it is also a rare thing to happen. So many people are scare of it and they think it is unlucky. 13 is also one of my favorite numbers.
2006-10-13 07:21:59 · answer #1 · answered by ^..^ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I may be a bit of an odd ball, but Friday the 13th is usually a lucky day for me. I've found money, bumped into old friends, and I have today off. So what's not to love? I find it being mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
2006-10-13 14:26:59 · answer #2 · answered by Battlerattle06 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece and Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia (alternate spelling paraskavidekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia) or friggatriskaidekaphobia specialized forms of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen.
There have been a number of events known as "Black Fridays" in history. Usually, these events are devastating. Some historians propose that the origin of the "Black Friday" was the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of Knights Templars on October 13, 1307 (Friday), to be later tortured into admitting heresy
Strangely, there is evidence to suggest that Friday the 13th is actually unlucky. Psychologists have found that some people are especially likely to have accidents or fall ill on Friday the 13th[citation needed]. This has been attributed to such people feeling a heightened state of anxiety on that day (see nocebo effect). The Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina estimates that in the United States alone, $800 or $900 million is lost in business each Friday the 13th because people will not fly or do business they would normally do. [1]
The date is also well-known in the motorcycle (biker) community: since 1981, motorcycle enthusiasts and vendors gather every Friday the 13th in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. This tradition started on November 13, 1981 by Chris Simons as a gathering of approximately 25 friends. The event has grown substantially, with an estimated 100,000 people attending in August 2004, as well as music bands, vendors, a bike show, etc.
In the Spanish-speaking world, it is Tuesday the 13th (as well as Tuesdays in general) that brings bad luck[citation needed]; a proverb runs En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques (on Tuesday, neither get married nor start a journey).
All months whose first day falls on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th.
Famous people born on Friday the 13th:
Christian A Moser
Don Adams
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Walter Annenberg
Isaac Babel
Kathleen Battle
Samuel Beckett
Craig Bellamy
Carlo Bergonzi
Irene Binder
Kristian Birkeland
Rose Bishop
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Dean Bortner
Peter 'Possum' Bourne
Neville Brand
Martin Broom
Peabo Bryson
Steve Buscemi
Mark Cardona
Fidel Castro
Alan Clark
Will Clark
T. J. Cloutier
Scott Cooper
Sara Cox
Dave Cutler
Baron Davis
Shani Davis
Peter Davison
Morris Day
Oliviero De Fabritiis
Ilse DeLange
Casey Donovan
Tony Dow
James Ensor
Arthur Fadden
Eileen Farrell
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Bob Forsch
Kay Francis
Gerald Gardner
Lowell George
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Etienne Gilson
John Hammond
Dick Haymes
Nichola Holt
Thomas Jefferson
Scatman John
Bob Kalsu
Tom Kenny
Morris Kirksey
Karoline Krüger
Robert Lamm
Alberto Lattuada
George Lewis
Luisão
Carol Lynley
Stephen Maguire
Nicholas McCarthy
Lindy McDaniel
Kelly McGraw
Graham McPherson
Jean-Marie Messier
W.O. Mitchell
Pierre Molinier
Juan Montalvo
Samantha Morton
Esther Ofarim
Edward O'Hare
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Jermaine O'Neal
Doc Rivers
Herbert Ross
Darius Rucker
Jennifer Rubin
Summer Sanders
Martin Sastre
Georges Simenon
Emma Sjöberg
Hillel Slovak
Wole Soyinka
George Gabriel Stokes
Tim Story
Joachim Streich
Peter Tork
Bess Truman
Darius Vassell
Steve Vickers
Rhonda Vincent
Ernst Werner von Siemens
Zoë Wanamaker
Max Weinberg
Alison Wheeler
Jake White
C. Vann Woodward
Aleksei Yeliseyev
Aaron Hershkowitz
Parakeet
2006-10-13 14:26:00 · answer #3 · answered by mysticideas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus supposedly died on a Friday and the devil and the 12 witches equals 13. Very bad luck, if you're into that kind of thing!!!
2006-10-13 14:23:46 · answer #4 · answered by Obi-wan Kenobi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear of the number 13 creeps past our usual haunting aversions to heights and open spaces into the number one spot.
it refers to the killing of knight templars back in the late centuries.
also as a halloween.
2006-10-13 14:23:17 · answer #5 · answered by billy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's on a Friday, and it lands on the 13th day =D and bad things are supposed to happen ....BOO!
2006-10-13 14:25:43 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ mars♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's before Saturday 14th and after Thursday 12th!
2006-10-13 14:25:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i just know when i get home from work i can cuddle up to the one i love tonight and watch scary movies all night
2006-10-13 14:23:14 · answer #8 · answered by swingorstrikeout 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We' re gonna have it again in April and July of next year.
2006-10-13 14:27:34 · answer #9 · answered by liljewel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really liked the movie.
2006-10-13 14:23:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋