Happy....

[FanGirl]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00001MXXM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[slizzelizzel]

I'm assuming that this just came out on DVD?

[FanGirl]

No, today is Friday. It's the 13th of May.

[slizzelizzel]

I'm retarded.

[karmattack]

I love that that's what you assumed, as opposed to the fact that it's actually Friday, the 13th of May. :)

Also, the power of this day is confirmed by the fact that at this moment, Don Henley is somehow on my iPod and singing "All she wants to do is dance." If that isn't curse'd and evil.....well, then I just don't know what is.

[FanGirl]

A Brief History of Friday the 13th
By: Joe Nickell & Matt Nisbet

Only one thing can be predicted for this Friday, the 13th of November; it will be an anxiety-filled day for friggatriskaidekaphobes. The label, with its origins in Nordic mythology and ancient Greek, identifies those afflicted souls who possess an overwhelming fear of Friday the 13th.

Where does this unnatural trepidition of Friday the 13th originate, and is there any harm in staying home from work for fear of a bad day or tragic accident?

As any reputable scientist or mathematician will tell you, "luck" does not exist. Good fortune is randomly distributed and not dependent on the day. The superstitious, however, will cite a long history of misfortune associated with the number thirteen.

As the story goes, in order to understand thirteen, one has to understand the history of twelve. The number twelve has traditionally represented completeness. There are twelve months of the year, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve signs of the zodiac and twelve apostles of Jesus.

Thirteen exists just one digit beyond twelve, and is symbolic of the first departure from completeness or the initial step towards evil. Judas Iscariot was the "thirteenth" apostle, the thirteenth tribe of Israel was the only tribe left without land, and the ill-fated Apollo 13 space mission was launched at 1313 hours (central time), from pad 39 ( the 3rd multiple of 13) and had to be aborted on April 13, 1970. Practitioners of witchcraft will cite that the number thirteen equals the number of days in the year divided by twenty-eight, the number of days in a woman's menstrual cycle.

Friday has an equally colorful past. According to the Bible, Eve gave the apple to Adam on Friday, the great flood began on a Friday, the Temple of Solomon was destroyed on a Friday, execution day was Friday in Rome, and Good Friday exists because it is the reported day of Jesus' crucifixion. An English schoolboy allegedly proved mathematically that thirteen, when examined over a 400-year period, falls on Friday more than any day of the year . He was thirteen years old, of course.

[karmattack]

Pretty freaky......all that deep, and rich history behind Don Henley secretly sneaking onto my iPod.

[ozchick]

Yeah! So how'd that happen anyway? In my limited understanding in the ways of the iPod, its up to you what goes on there. Which leads me to believe that you, subconsciously maybe, LOVE Don Henley. Its the only explanation.

[slizzelizzel]

Who's Don Henley?

[karmattack]

Yeah! So how'd that happen anyway? In my limited understanding in the ways of the iPod, its up to you what goes on there. When I hook my iPod up to my computer, iTunes updates it randomly using the catacombs of mp3's I have on my computer. Apparently I acquired that song without knowing it. Which leads me to believe that you, subconsciously maybe, LOVE Don Henley. Its the only explanation. [puts hands in pockets, blushes, kicks at the dirt]


slizz:
http://james.istop.com/music/Don%20Henley%20-%20Inside%20Job.jpg

...of The Eagles fame.

[Efexeye]

chi chi chi chi......hoh hoh hoh hoh

[ratm1966]

Some more interesting tidbits on how Friday the 13th became to be revered as an unlucky day.....

by David Emery

The Witch Goddess
The name "Friday" came from a Norse deity worshipped on the sixth day, known either as Frigg (goddess of marriage and fertility), or Freya (goddess of sex and fertility), or both, the two figures having become intertwined in the handing-down of myths over time (the etymology of "Friday" has been given both ways). Frigg/Freya corresponded to Venus, the goddess of love of the Romans, who named the sixth day of the week in her honor "dies Veneris."


Friday was actually considered quite lucky by pre-Christian Teutonic peoples, we are told — especially as a day to get married — because of its traditional association with love and fertility. All that changed when Christianity came along. The goddess of the sixth day — most likely Freya in this context, given that the cat was her sacred animal — was recast in post-pagan folklore as a witch, and her day became associated with evil doings. Various legends developed in that vein, but one is of particular interest: As the story goes, the witches of the north used to observe their sabbath by gathering in a cemetery in the dark of the moon. On one such occasion the Friday goddess, Freya herself, came down from her sanctuary in the mountaintops and appeared before the group, who numbered only 12 at the time, and gave them one of her cats, after which the witches' coven — and, by tradition, every properly-formed coven since — comprised exactly 13.

Anathema
Other sources suggest the number 13 was purposely vilified by the founders of patriarchal religions in the early days of western civilization because it represented femininity. Thirteen had been revered in prehistoric goddess-worshiping cultures, allegedly, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 x 28 = 364 days). The "Earth Mother of Laussel," for example, a 27,000-year-old carving found near the Lascaux caves in France often cited as an icon of matriarchal spirituality, depicts a female figure holding a cresent-shaped horn bearing 13 notches. According to this theory, as the solar calendar triumphed over the lunar with the rise of male-dominated civilization, so did the number 12 over the number 13, thereafter considered anathema.

The following is given as a possible reason why all of the separate strands of folklore might have converged into the one we have today.....

The Knights Templar
One theory, most recently propounded in the novel "The Da Vinci Code," holds that it came about not as the result of a convergence, but a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago. The catastrophe was the decimation of the Knights Templar (http://historymedren.about.com/cs/templars/index.htm), the legendary order of "warrior monks" formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam.

Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by Katharine Kurtz in "Tales of the Knights Templar" (Warner Books: 1995):
"On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand Templars — knights, sergeants, priests, and serving brethren — in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy, various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None of these charges was ever proven, even in France — and the Order was found innocent elsewhere — but in the seven years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered excruciating tortures intended to force 'confessions,' and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed by burning at the stake

[bobo72000]

hey what r u doing

[Efexeye]

...

I think you should probably stop sucking on you moms' cars' tailpipe in your spare time...

[Efexeye]

hey what r u doing

Mulling using my ignore button for the first time...is this your first message board?

[Omaru]

I'm thinking that at thirteen, you just about scrape the admission queue in the cinema then? Cause you certainly post like a thirteen year old.

Alteranatively, I hope you don't make another eleven retarded posts.

[ratm1966]

I just decided to remove all of my hard work since Ryall took care of the dude in a much better way.

[Efexeye]

Yeah, that guy just crossed the line from Newbie Fucktard to Prime Asshole.

[ratm1966]

Well, both Ming and Ryall are online right now, so I don't see bobo lasting much longer.

[Efexeye]

Nice work on the quick post deletion and ban, Chris (or Ming, I don't know exactly who did that)- gotta love that Movie Poop Shoot customer service!

[ratm1966]

Nice work on the quick post deletion and ban, Chris (or Ming, I don't know exactly who did that)- gotta love that Movie Poop Shoot customer service!

I think this pretty much gives it away....

This message has been deleted by Ryall (http://moviepoopshoot.com/forums/member.php?u=4).

:D

[Efexeye]

Oh yeah!

....derrr......

[ratm1966]

Oh yeah!

....derrr......

I think you can just blame the fact that you missed the obvious and made yourself look like a goob on the fact that it is Friday the 13th...:D

[Denyse]

And that's different from any other day, HOW exactly?:D

[ratm1966]

And that's different from any other day, HOW exactly?:D
Hey! I was just trying to be nice to the guy and give him an out...okay? :D

[Efexeye]

And that's different from any other day, HOW exactly?:D

YOU DIE NOW!

Well, you die when I get home.

[Mighty Wingman]

Hows this for bad luck ?

My boss comes to me about twenty minutes ago, tells me I have to go out of town next week , ALL next week . Guess what I have tickets and reservations to NEXT WEEK! Guess why I scheduled the 19th off for THREE MONTHS AGO ! I'm an inch away from quitting. Wait , no , about a 1/4 inch.

FUCK!

[Dave]

where are you going? i'll bet they have a theatre there, too.


(i see your point though.)

[jjcourtright]

Hows this for bad luck ?
Guess what I have tickets and reservations to NEXT WEEK! Guess why I scheduled the 19th off for THREE MONTHS AGO ! ...Hookers?

[Mighty Wingman]

where are you going? i'll bet they have a theatre there, too.


(i see your point though.)
Myself and five friends are -- ehem! -- were going to Alamo Drafthouse. A very special kind of theatre that serves food ( really good food, Star wars themed food in this case ) and your choice of 152 varieties of beer. Also a half hour preshow with rare SW oddities, and yes, a fucking toy! This has been planned for months. Sure I can still go to some other theatre two or three days after the opening when tickets finally become available, some crappy AMC or Regal theatre with no beer and five dollar popcorn.

Nah! Fuck that!

I'm going to tell my boss to find someone else to cover for the incompetent dipshits I work with, I'm tired of pulling their weight.

I wont phrase it quite like that, but this aint happenin'!

[Gotherella]

...and yes, a fucking toy!

They're giving those away? Are they shaped like this guy's head?

http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_adi_1.jpg

[Efexeye]

I got fucked too- I had a client schedule an 8AM meeting on Thursday with less than a week's notice. So, my options are to go to the movie, then give a 4-hour presentation at 8AM to an entire City Council on 3 hours sleep, or skip it and go Thursday night.

FUCK!

[actualsize]

Hows this for bad luck ?

My boss comes to me about twenty minutes ago, tells me I have to go out of town next week , ALL next week . Guess what I have tickets and reservations to NEXT WEEK! Guess why I scheduled the 19th off for THREE MONTHS AGO ! I'm an inch away from quitting. Wait , no , about a 1/4 inch.
Hey, do I know you? Do you work just over the cubicle wall from me?

[actualsize]

I got fucked too- I had a client schedule an 8AM meeting on Thursday with less than a week's notice. So, my options are to go to the movie, then give a 4-hour presentation at 8AM to an entire City Council on 3 hours sleep, or skip it and go Thursday night.

FUCK!

It's a conspiracy. I just came from a manager's meeting, where they told us to schedule "meetings" early Thursday morning, just to Eff with people..

But seriously, it happened to me this morning. My daughter had an activity at school that requested fathers' assistance. 8:30 to 9:00. I was all set to go, then last night I get told of an important 8:00 am video conference I MUST attend. So I had to disappoint my daughter and go in early. You can guess what happened, can't you. I arrived at 7:45 to the news that the meeting had been cancelled.

OK, it's not Star Wars, but my daughter was mad when I told her at dinner. Me too.

[actualsize]

I got fucked too- I had a client schedule an 8AM meeting on Thursday with less than a week's notice. So, my options are to go to the movie, then give a 4-hour presentation at 8AM to an entire City Council on 3 hours sleep, or skip it and go Thursday night.

FUCK!

Hey wait a minute!! I just remembered I'm supposed to go with you to that! What are you gonna do? Red Bull Mocha shooters?

[The Other Dude]

No, today is Friday. It's the 13th of May.


Well, actually now it's Sunday the Ides of May, but I'm just getting technical.

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That's it for the other one.

[slizzelizzel]

Nobody really cares-- that was posted two days ago, when in fact, it was still friday.

[The Other Dude]

Nobody really cares-- that was posted two days ago, when in fact, it was still friday.

Well, slizz, ya know, I'm starting to think you do care, otherwise, you wouldn't keep responding to my posts, you'd ignore them.

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That's it for the other one.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Dude, please just go away. You are giving me a headache.

[The Other Dude]

Dude, please just go away. You are giving me a headache.

Take tylenol or advil for that, smurf. That should help. Or get up from the computer and stretch. Take a walk. Get some exercise. Just a thought. Or not.

<')////)<
That's it for the other one.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

You are so funny, in fact, I should hire you now for my birthday party.

[slizzelizzel]

Hehe, I just remembered the Ignore feature!!! YAYAYAYAY!

[JK]

...you'd ignore them.



What a good idea!

[Efexeye]

I got fucked too- I had a client schedule an 8AM meeting on Thursday with less than a week's notice. So, my options are to go to the movie, then give a 4-hour presentation at 8AM to an entire City Council on 3 hours sleep, or skip it and go Thursday night.

FUCK!

YAY! Client ineptitude finally pays off- based on our meeting today, we had to postpone the meeting on Thursday, so now I don't have to go, so now I get to use my Midnight EP 3 ticket! WOO HOO!! FINALLY, CLIENTS HAVING THEIR HEADS UP THEIR ASSES PAYS OFF!!!! WOO HOO AGAIN!!

(By the way, I realize the lameness of quoting my own post, I'm just happy).

[Efexeye]

YAY! Client ineptitude finally pays off- based on our meeting today, we had to postpone the meeting on Thursday, so now I don't have to go, so now I get to use my Midnight EP 3 ticket! WOO HOO!! FINALLY, CLIENTS HAVING THEIR HEADS UP THEIR ASSES PAYS OFF!!!! WOO HOO AGAIN!!

(By the way, I realize the lameness of quoting my own post, I'm just happy).

Sweet merciful crap, now I have to go to the meeting no matter what.

FUCK IT- I'm going to the movie. I don't care if I fall asleep in the meeting. Is it wrong to place a higher priority on a movie than on my job? Maybe...but I hate this job anyway, so that makes it LESS wrong.

I'll be there with bells on.

[Dave]

At your job or at the movies? If it's the movies, some darksider may try and force choke you every time you reach for another handful of popcorn.

[Efexeye]

At your job or at the movies? If it's the movies, some darksider may try and force choke you every time you reach for another handful of popcorn.

Well, I'll PHYSICALLY be in both places, but I will definitely be MENTALLY at the movies. I can't speak for my brain in the meeting, although, I'll be running it, so, it'll be interesting to see how that pans out.