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April 13, 2012
I don’t have to tell you what day it is.
At least to some of you.
Maybe the 49 percent that said in a recent poll they wouldn't walk under a ladder.
While a separate poll concluded 86 percent regularly practice superstitious behavior like crossing fingers or carrying a lucky charm.
Yes, Friday the 13th.
Triskaidekaphobia is an abnormal fear of the number 13, which has its roots in many mysterious reasons you may not want to know about.
This is compounded today since a specific fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia that could, in itself, prompt a fear of syllables.
Some cities skip 13th Ave., but not Sacramento, with an intersection where 13th Street crosses 13th Avenue.
You won't catch me there.
However, one must ask, why do seemingly "normal" people act like this.
Since, in giving in to superstitions, we are reinforcing a belief that the dictionary says results from ignorance.
If you think you're immune it might behoove you to remember that every time you say, "Bless you" you are following a belief that began during the plagues.
According to legend, Saint Gregory ordered people to say "God bless you" when somebody sneezed to prevent the spread of the disease.
And since we haven’t had any plagues in the world for a while, it seems to be working.
Experts can't agree why the rabbit's foot means good luck, (although not for the rabbit).
Recent research indicates beliefs like wearing "lucky" socks, counting magpies, carrying an acorn, all reflect a need for control, according to professor Adam Galinksy. "Even if it's imaginary control," chimes in co-researcher Jennifer Whitson of the University of Texas at Austin.
Prevailing thought indicates superstitions originated long ago to make some sense of the inexplicable forces of nature around us.
Seems it's still inexplicable. However, I'm hoping not to you. I just knocked on wood so I know we're going to have a fruitful discussion.
Happy 13th everyone.
Oh great. I have a job interview today... as if I didn't have enough to worry about! ...
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My lucky day.
There are three Friday the 13ths this year.
imaginary control, For the record even in my imaginary world it still equals Chaos.
Such is life, I shall tuck a potato in my purse for the day & hope for the best that can be I guess.
Happy Friday the 13th Everyone!!!!
the most important thing to remember is in a Baker's dozen, YOU get an extra donut ....THIRTEENTH
Un/Lucky rabbit feet. I don't know what magic they contain but kittens adore them as playthings.
Hazel, you are correct, a rabbit's foot IS unlucky. Just ask the poor rabbit.....
Ivan~ There is a house on a local street that is Number 13 and they called it Bakers Dozen.
rings~? A potato in your purse? Never heard of that - do tell!
Bert~ The pet food industry in the UK consumes thousands/millions of farmed rabbits. In the countryside, rabbits become such a menace to crops and grazing land that myxomatosis is deliberately introduced to the bunny population.
In the Lutheran Church, good luck or blessings have always been said to be gifts showered upon the undeserving by a loving God.
Bad luck was what we naturally had coming our way and He had His eye on the sparrow or something at the time.
In my one and only talk with God; we were painting an upturned boat green (dark green) at the time, He explained: "We… don't really do accidents, they just happen and if We'd ever had a policy in that area, it would have gone out the window with the inventions of, if not the automobile and slanted roof, certainly the skateboard and those little bitty short pants."
In our town, the numbered streets are on the South Side. In a kind of double whammy, Southsiders are on the other side of the river and the tracks.
The numbering makes things a little easier for them: 12th St, South Park Ave, 14th St… you know the deal.
We have Washington Boulevard, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson St. They have Adams, Polk, the waste water treatment plant and most of the Catholic churches.
Luck be a lady...today...Frank just might sing. And watching Jeff Beck's rendition of Stevie Wonder's Superstitous made my lucky pennies in my Bass Weejuns shine back in the 70's. Fleetwood Mac reminds me there's no explanation for what your imagination can make you see or feel. We say we like logic but we all cotton to a little voodoo to explain our crazy ass ways. Black Water Hattie the swamp witch might leave you a parchment note and you best do what it says...
TT, do you have a link on the Jeff Beck/Superstitious recording? I've heard the Stevie Ray Vaughn exceptionally righteous version and actually saw SRV with (get this) Beck as his warm up @ the Omni in Atlanta. I still have the ticket stub.
Oh great. I have a job interview today... as if I didn't have enough to worry about! To be fair, I haven't had a bad Friday the 13th... yet. Oh great, now I jynxed it. Curses! (Now I've reversed it because I noticed? [Oh shoot! I've done it again]).
more on the honor rollUmm- Old but you get the point...http://youtu.be/xyyhm1D7zlI
Tommy Typical ~
While not a very safe or welcoming place for the ladies or an attractive dietary option for our Jewish friends and neighbors, the Noble's Holler cafe of Ellstin Limehouse seems like a worthwhile spot for a lunch and supper before getting back across that bridge before dark.
I have not seen my brother and his gang in Lexington for some time and it doesn't look to be that far over to Harlan County.
Sweet tea, according to the sign on the wall, being $2.50, I'll bring a chilled case of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale… perfect for cutting through that pork fat.
The unreliable and obsequious Errol seems to have been taken out if you believe that a small caliber bullet could pass through both sides of a pig and at least one of his.
Robert Quarles won't be putting the arm ( the left one anyway) on anyone and the timing may never be better.
A man in his 40's bought a new BMW and was out on the interstate for a nice evening drive.
The top was down, the breeze was blowing through what was left of his hair and he decided to open her up. As the needle jumped up to 80 mph, he suddenly saw flashing red andblue lights behind him.
"There's no way they can catch a BMW," he thought to himself and opened her up further. The needle hit 90, 100.... Then the reality of the situation hit him.
"What the hell am I doing?" he thought and pulled over.
The cop came up to him, took his license without a word and examined it and the car.
"It's been a long day, this is the end of my shift and it's Friday the 13th. I don't feel like more paperwork, so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before, you can go."
The guy thinks for a second and says, "Last week my wife ran off with a cop. I was afraid it was you and you were trying to give her back."
"Have a nice weekend," said the officer as he left.
Friday the 17th
In Italian popular culture, Friday the 17th (and not the 13th) is considered a day of bad luck.[12] In fact, in Italy, 13 is generally considered a lucky number.[13] However, due to Anglo-Saxon influence, young people consider Friday the 13th to be unlucky as well.[14]
The 2000 parody film Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth was released in Italy with the title Shriek - Hai impegni per venerdì 17? ("Shriek - Do You Have Something to Do on Friday the 17th?").
I can't believe I actually copied that.
But it's true my in-laws always considered Friday the 13th lucky.
I got that from Wikipedia, credit where credit is due.
TT-Excellent. Carmine could really bang those skins.
Wasn't it Howland Owl who in the Pogo strip asserted: "Friday the 13th comes on a Wednesday next week." ?
Walt Kelly particularly took aim at people who insist on accepting illogic.
Charging $199.95 for something instead of $200.00 is deliberate deceit, and nothing but dishonesty is to be expected from such people. Anyone who truly believes that a Friday can be a Wednesday, of that the number 13 is inherently lucky or unlucky, is this man's lawful prey. — Ruskin (or an imitator of his)
Stoney: I keep thinking that Boyd is Arlo's son. You just never know what you might find in a pork belly- maybe a half a million smackers. I love that description of Quarles. That dude with the crazy blue eyes and the the big baby head. Great post!!! Elmore Leonard has such crazy good characters.
"Prevailing thought indicates superstitions originated long ago to make some sense of the inexplicable forces of nature around us."
A bit infantile perhaps but less so than a reliance on fantasy that lame attempt to empower the powerless.
As a matter of fact, nobody appreciates the limitations of power as much as the powerful.
Check with Barack H. Obama, Señor H. Chavez or the late Reza Pahlavi.
TT ~
Justified is just the best visual interpretation of Elmore Leonard's work… period.
Proabably not the best day to be a North Korean rocket scientist… if there are any left standing.
Thanks RoadYacht, now I want donuts. *sigh* Friday is the longest work day of the week, but at least it keeps me from sitting home wondering what to do with myself, I don't care if it is the 13th or the 30th, Fridays kind of suck now in general.
Rings I wish we lived closer to each other, you could bring that potato over and I could work some magic and at least give you something tasty to eat. Cooking for others is so much easier than cooking for 1 now.
NACHISTA I couldn't agree with you more about the dreariness of cooking for 1. Do you throw salt over your left shoulder? I have to admit that I do. In fact I have been wondering if the arthritis in my right elbow is directly related to how many left shoulder tosses I have made in my life!
OT Happy Birthday Thomas Jefferson! Thanks for many things.
Deb, nope, never been superstitious, I just sweep or vacuum it up before the dogs get to it and make themselves sick.
chefDeb - I do not think of myself as superstitious, but have been known to throw salt over the left shoulder if the salt is spilled (not in the house), and to occasionally claim a "lucky" ring or piece of clothing (always wear on test days) when I was in college. It is good psychology to wish yourself a positive result, as someone has already said.
Nachista - made your pickle-potato soup from your blog and it is great! Thanks for sharing that....! It will now be a favorite on Moose Loop! I have friends coming for lunch Sunday and will serve crustless quiche and that soup with a fruit salad! (Looks as if you could put bits of ham or bacon or sausage into it at the last, too....Have you done that with meat bits?)
No worries about Friday the 13th today....It is a beautiful day here!
so you think we'll end the day with a total that is a multiple of 13? Good Luck!
Stoney - Love your comment about the short career life of the North Korean rocket scientists!! How embarrassing!!
Mooseloop, it is really good with kielbasa chopped up in it. I'm not a stickler for exact recipes...I say take something and make it your own and love what you are eating, instead of eating what some phoney foodie tells you that you should eat.
Ooops! I just noticed - my 6.33am should have been addressed to RY~ Assumed it was Ivan 'cos of the bold type!
I always wanted to use 'triskaidekaphobia' in Scrabble.......haven't had the luck! Maybe today--Friday 13th. Nope.....nobody plays Scrabble with me anymore---I just have to do crosswords now.
So Rings...how did that potato work out for you? Ready to come to my house and make latkes with it? Or better yet, launch it out of my brother in law's potato gun?
nachista...........mashed would work out fine--just shoot them out of the gun and add butter and cream...........? no? just thought I'd try and help you girls out...
I'm off under the duvet. Nos da dear people. x
Carol I'll take my potatoes any way I find them...mashed, fried, boiled, baked, and anything inbetween. These are some of my favorites
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/sidedishes/easy-italian-potatoes-2/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/sidedishes/garlic-parmesan-zucchini-latkes/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/sidedishes/creamed-potatoes-and-peas/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/apple-cider-spudnuts/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/sidedishes/easy-parsley-butter-new-potatoes/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/sidedishes/old-fashioned-dutch-oven-potato-salad/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/sidedishes/funeral-potatoes/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/dutch-oven-chicken-jumble/
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/pierogi-dough/ ; (ok the dough itself doesn't have potatoes in it, but cheesy mashed potatoes are one of my favorite fillings.)
Can you tell I live just a few miles South of the Idaho border? One of my favorite dishes is Mexicana cheese fries from a Chilean restaurant that just closed up shop. They used waffle cute fries as a base and then added cheese, grilled steak, chimichurri sauce, fresh gaucamole, pico, sour cream and hot sauce. Those things were soooooo good.
An hour left at the day job and the work has dried up to nothing...can you tell?
SAJJ ~ So, how did the interview go? Hopefully it went well, especially you reversed yourself.
Hazel -
Hazel - I have no Idea My Grandmothers always said to do it. I am not sure where it came from & why.
Nachista - I may have to Bronze this year's potato.
I had a Job Interview this evening & I think it went pretty well. It's for another Retail place, but it's small Expensive Boutique and seems a bit promising.
Warning - If any of you are members of PETA you may not appreciate some of the coats that I maybe selling.
"Blessings & Love Upon You All,
IVAN"
Is Ivan MIA? I miss his blessings, especially on this Friday the 13th...so.. well I cut and pasted them...surely God wouldn't mind?
Spent the day on the links and finished
fifth in a tournament, just out of the prize give aways.
Did not really feel any less lucky than
the team that finished 13th. It was a perfect day for golf in Middle
earth.
Stoney ~ Were you and the Lord
planning on filling the boat with two of each food group?
schlafen gute....
Penn,
Nice IVAN back up! Right back atcha.....
Rings 90: as far as you selling some furs ,don,t worry about it.An Athabasan Indian( native Alaska tribe) once explaned to me how a tourist or a member of some animal rights group would look at a Caribou and talk about how majestic he looked and he should be letft alone. When I see a caribou I see about 2 months of food and clothing for my family.I have to survive on the caribou, he does not.Having several friends amoung the native Alaskan people I agree with them and their point of view.
Nacho & ChefDeb ~
Good points: cooking one scrambled egg for her nibs every morning seems like a near miss.
We cooked for years on a large scale for our athletic kids and then, for the workers in the Beauty's family business… she keeps getting checks for her half.
It is hard to gear down but we have been helped out by a really cool and fairly spendy electric frying pan that limits things: five large and cheap pork chops with green beans, potatoes and gravy made by the Beauty fed four of us… twice.
That pan has the advantage of cooking at a constant simmer as opposed to going on high and then, off.
paolos ~
No, but the loaves and fishes on the beach were nice.
I was born on the 13th...not a Friday, but Friday the 13 always feels special to me. I consider 13 to be my number...lucky I guess.
Oh yeah, it's still Friday the 13th as I wrote this, even though the time shows up as Saturday the 14th. We had a roaring thunder and lightening storm in the wee hours of the 13th. Thunder unlike the usual wimpy thunder here in California...this was almost like a good east coast thunder storm, but daylight brought sunshine....a perfect Friday the 13th.