Friday, January 13, 2012

Lemming Tracks: Triskaidekaphobia and a Rambling Lemming

There's another Friday the 13th coming this year, in July:
  • That's six months from now
  • There are two numbers in "13"
    • "1" and "3"
  • Three multiplied by two is six
You see?! IT ALL FITS TOGETHER!!!

Or, not. The Lemming's been over sounding crazy on the Internet, and how to avoid it, before:On the other hand, the Lemming had an unusually hard time coming up with a topic for today's earlier post ("Oh, Boy! The Avengers are Back - Almost "), which a sufficiently triskaidekaphobic person might think was the result of Friday the 13th already being here, over in Asia, when the Lemming was still rummaging around for something nifty.

"Triskaidekaphobia?" That's a seven-syllable word meaning "a morbid fear of the number 13." (Princeton's WordNet) Oddly enough, seven is a 'lucky' number. ("Is this your lucky number? Seventy-seven things you need to know about 07," Independent.co.uk (December 31, 2006)) Which probably explains the title of "Lucky Number Slevin" (2006).

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2 comments:

Brigid said...

There's also a Friday the 13th in April.

Brian H. Gill said...

Brigid,

Ri-i-ight! Let's see - there must be some sort of numerological silliness I can do with that: but at the moment, I've got nothing.

Thanks!

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