Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

The deadliest associations with number 13 are the facts that there are 13 stairs leading to the gallows; the blade in a guillotine falls from a height of 13 feet; and a hangman has 13 knots in a hangman's noose.


Roger left for work on Friday 13th morning. Friday was payday, so instead of going home, he stayed out the entire weekend partying with the boys and spending his entire pay packet.

Finally, he appeared at home on Sunday night, and obviously he was confronted by his angry wife, Martha who castigated Roger for nearly two hours with a tirade befitting his actions. Finally, Martha stopped the nagging and said to Roger, 'How would you like it if you didn't see me for two or three days?'

Roger replied grimly, 'That would be fine with me.'

Monday went by and he didn't see his Martha. Tuesday and Wednesday came and went with the same results.

On Thursday, the swelling went down just enough so that Roger he could see Martha a little out of the corner of his left eye....

Friday 13th Superstitions

It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
American Proverb

Do you believe that getting married on a Friday brings bad luck?
Of course, why would Friday be an exception? - Anon

The Sinking of the HMS Royal Oak on Friday 13th October 1939

(One of the true stories that gives seamen cause to be superstitious)

On Friday 13th October 1939 the German submarine U-47 torpedoed the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. Captain GÜnther Prien manoeuvred his U-boat through a narrow gap in the British defences of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Isles. The result of his salvo of 3 torpedoes was the loss of 833 British seamen. This was the greatest loss of life ever suffered by one British warship.

Here is a PowerShell script to calculate the next Friday 13th

# You need Windows PowerShell for this.

$i=0
do {
$i++
$next = (Get-Date).AddDays($i)
} until ($next.DayOfWeek -eq "Friday" -AND $next.Day -eq 13)

Write-Host "The next Friday the 13th is in $i days on $($next.ToShortDateString())." -ForegroundColor Red

GodFollowyahopcomer

You can claim ALL the "bad luck" for yourself. Friday the 13th has ALWAYS been a blessed day for me something to do with thanking Jesus for having yet another day to spread his Word! AMEN

i.e. it was Friday the 13th when I won $500 for bowling a strike on each of two lanes at the Friday night colored pin sweeper! That doubled my monthly income! :-)

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

And now the entire world knows for all time that you earn $500 a month. What exactly is it that you do for a living?

GodFollowyahopcomer

Larry,
You obviously don't understand the English language, which I passed with flying colors, while earning my AAS degree attending Eastern New Mexico University- Roswell campus (Dean's List and Phi Theta Kappa)
Inflation has lessened the value of a dollar considerably since back then.
Notice the usage of past tense in the telling of my tale. I have seen a lot over the years: in fact i recall buying cigarettes for ten CENTS A PACK!
You would have to spot a bunch of $5 bills on the ground for all the pennies I've spotted lying there today to equal the money I was making back then!!