Any triskaidekaphobes out there?

[Jay!]

Word of the Day for Friday September 13, 2002:
.triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun:
..a morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th
.--triskaidekaphobic, adjective and noun; triskaidekaphobe, noun

I know this is too late for our Kiwi population, in the future as they are, but is there anyone who's still afraid of Friday the 13th? Or the number 13 in general?

If so, why? Seems kinda archaic nowadays, don't it?

[Jay!]

Triskaidekaphobia is a fairly new word (first found in print in 1911) formed from Greek treiskaideka, triskaideka, thirteen (treis, three + kai, and + deka, ten) + phobos, fear.

There are many theories about the origin of triskaidekaphobia. In medieval Christian countries the number 13 came to be considered unlucky because there were 13 persons at the Last Supper of Christ. Fridays are also unlucky, because the Crucifixion was on a Friday. Hence a Friday falling on the thirteenth day would be regarded as especially unlucky.

Some famous triskaidekaphobes:
* Napoleon
* Herbert Hoover
* Mark Twain
* Richard Wagner
* Franklin Roosevelt

Thirteen people, pledged to eliminate triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13, today tried to reassure American sufferers by renting a 13 ft plot of land in Brooklyn for 13 cents... a month.
--Daily Telegraph, January 14, 1967

A discussion in the U.N. last week on the number of members on a committee raised the question of triskaidekaphobia.
--New York Times, November 8, 1953

Past disasters linked to the number 13 hardly help triskaidekaphobics overcome their affliction. The most famous is the Apollo 13 mission, launched on April 11, 1970 (the sum of 4, 11 and 70 equals 85 - which when added together comes to 13), from Pad 39 (three times 13) at 13:13 local time, and struck by an explosion on April 13.
--"It's just bad luck that the 13th is so often a Friday,"
Electronic Telegraph, September 8, 1996

[Gonthrax]

Originally posted by jay@af
Past disasters linked to the number 13 hardly help triskaidekaphobics overcome their affliction. The most famous is the Apollo 13 mission, launched on April 11, 1970 (the sum of 4, 11 and 70 equals 85 - which when added together comes to 13), from Pad 39 (three times 13) at 13:13 local time, and struck by an explosion on April 13.
--"It's just bad luck that the 13th is so often a Friday,"
Electronic Telegraph, September 8, 1996

Lol! Thats kinda grasping at straws here. I'm afraid of the 13th too because the 2 trade towers got attacked on the 11th and 2 plus 11 is 13




*Edit*
Jay, if your a taradactadontalphobe I'm sorry, I'm an insensitive idiot:cry:

[Ssom]

Nah- I'm not afraid of it


But WHY isn't there Monday or Thursday etc. the 13th

[Heep]

Originally posted by Gonthrax
I'm afraid of the 13th too because the 2 trade towers got attacked on the 11th and 2 plus 11 is 13

LOL!! It's so funny how people seriously come up with stuff like that

[HogieGT-R]

wow...that's kinda out there man

[Damien]

That's funny! :hehehe:

There are a whole bunch of different weird phobias out there! I gotta go find them!

[kicker1_solo]

Na, I'm not afraid.



Ahhhhh, that's 13 letters! :o