Three Friday the 13ths in 2012!!!

They are all on the second week of the month, of course no duh right.

It just so happens the first one is going to start out the new year, that's right January has the first Friday the 13th.

Second Friday the 13th happens again in April, and last one is July.

Is three a charm, or is it a sign of the times, and foreshadowing the end of the world?

So I challenge you the readers and ATSers who have clicked and read this thread.

What other year, have we had so many or more Friday the 13ths, and the world did not end...

How many licks does it really take to get to the center of a tootsie pop...will the world ever know.

The truth is in here.

This does sound strange. I never heard of so many friday the 13ths (besides the movies).
And 3!??
3 is the amount of hits it takes to kill Bowser! (and most other video game bosses), That must mean something.

I'm sure someone will take the time to figure it all out, but I wont.
It is very interesting though.

Not that i place anything on this date, but it has since I was little and won a badminton competition on that day, always been a good luck day, few weeks back, I even won $190 smakeroos on the lottery and I never buy lottery tickets, i found the ticket on the road

Its a 19th century invention, and no one was more superstitious and full of hocus pocus nonsense than the Victorians.

I dont think they Maya had anything to do with this concept.

reply to post by Fishticon84


Well, I appreciate your interest and mild comment.

Perhaps one day, we all will know the significance of the 3 13s....or maybe not.

The last time there were 3 friday the 13ths was in 2009. The most that can happen in one year is 3.

Check this out, it lets you put in any year and it will tell you when the friday 13 were or will be.


http://_javascript.internet.com/time-date/find-friday-the-13th's!.html

reply to post by ADVISOR


No NO I didn;t even know that! thats bad juju. THis lends credence to the 2012 worries. COuld it possibly mean that everyone is doomed to have bad year. I mean even the numerologist might be a bit vexed at this.

Originally posted by ADVISOR
reply to post by Fishticon84

 

Well, I appreciate your interest and mild comment.

Perhaps one day, we all will know the significance of the 3 13s....or maybe not.

Oh of course I wish that we could know all truths but I do like to shed some silly light on things sometimes.

Yes, I'm the idiot who always buys the hemp rope in DnD for absolutely no reason and cheers like a moronic child when I the DM rolls a 4 and I roll a 20.

Here is a good explenation of it.

The trick here is to figure out which months start on the same day of
the week. In a standard (non-leap) year, if January starts on a
Monday, then February starts on a Thursday, March also starts on a
Thursday, etc.

Since January has 31 days, it has 4 full weeks (28 days) plus 3 days.
Hence, February must start 3 weekdays later. Similarly, since February
has 28 days (4 weeks + 0 days,) March starts on the same weekday as
February. Continuing this pattern, you can see which months start on
the same days, and you can count how many months start on each day.
Remember to do the counts for both a standard year and a leap year!

If months (like February and March) start on the same weekday,
logically the 13th of those months will also fall on the same weekday
- which will, in certain years be a Friday. So whatever was the
highest count of months starting on the same weekday, that number is
the most Friday the 13th's there could possibly be.

Source: www.oerrecommender.org...

I don't have a calendar handy to count for myself but, for the folks that get paid every other Friday, how many three paycheck months are there in 2012? I like three paycheck months. A lot.

it was in 2009 as someone else said, but in different months.
It was also in the following years, same months as 2012
1984
1956
1928
1900 (Wow century changer with 3 13ths)
1872
1844
and every 28 years before that.
Also it will be occurring every 28 years after 2012.

Same with 2009, same months as 2009 every 28 years before and after.

So all in all this does not mean anything, unless someone comes up with a history of doomsdays in that happened in the past.

Originally posted by NiteNGale
I don't have a calendar handy to count for myself but, for the folks that get paid every other Friday, how many three paycheck months are there in 2012? I like three paycheck months. A lot.

Up to 4 depending on when you are paid.
March, June, August and November.

And are you on a pc? If so how don't you have a calender??

From wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org...


Each Gregorian 400-year cycle contains 146,097 days (365 × 400 = 146,000 normal days plus 97 leap days), 146,097 / 7 = 20,871 weeks, and 400 × 12 = 4,800 months. Thus, each cycle contains the same pattern of days of the week (and thus the same pattern of Fridays the 13th), but no day of the month up to the 28th can occur the same number of times on each day of the week (because 4,800 is not divisible by 7). The 13th day of the month is slightly more likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week.[18] On average, there is a Friday the 13th once every 212.35 (212 and 241/688) days.

Right above this are some very good charts to look at as well, i tried to post those here but it did not come out looking good at all.

None.
If ya chomp it.

reply to post by ADVISOR


Very interesting since Friday the 13th's are usually so few and far between.

I've been considering Friday the 13th to be my lucky day for the past few years. Works for me! When nearly everyone I know is walking around all superstitious and paranoid, I tend to have a smile on my face. They think I'm weird. I've never told them they're wrong.

Right On!!!

In my city, every Friday the 13th, You can get tattooed for 13 bucks!

so I get 3 more next year.

reply to post by American-philosopher


Since I was born a month early on friday the 13th does that mean I'm doomed to have a bad life? Honestly I'm a pretty lucky person and I don't think that friday the 13th means anything.