Friday the 13th

[Ian Wright]

... and my house was built on an old (well naturaly) Bronze Age grave site.
Swmbo just called from Scotland to let me know that the exhaust is falling off my Landrover and what should she do,,,
I left the door of the 'fridge open all night and it has defrosted all over the kitchen floor.
What else can I expect?
IanW

[JimD]

If a hooded chap knocks on the door, don't answer it :D

[LeeG]

unless frogs fall from the sky I'd say it's just another friday the 13th.

[Jack Heinlen]

The origin of the Friday the 13th curse goes back to the Fourteenth Century. Twas on this day, Friday, 13, 1307, that some fifteen to twenty thousand Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon(aka Knights Templar) were simultaneously arrested in dawn raids by sheriffs of the French King, Philip the Fair. What had the day before been an honored and very wealthy order(Philip was heavily in debt to them) of the Catholic Church, awoke to find itself declared heretical by the Pope; they and all their properties seized by the king.

Oddly enough, their treasury in Paris was found to be empty, and their considerable fleet at New Rochelle vanished, never to be heard from by history again. There continues, as might be imagined, much speculation as to just what transpired. One reasonable explanation is that word of the impending arrests had leaked out; the treasury secreted away to someplace safe.

Their Grand Master Jacques de Molay was tortured by The Inquisition and confessed, only to recant some two years later before a commission established by Pope Clement, November, 1309. This affair dragged on a considerable time, and it wasn't until March 19th, 1314 that Jacgues de Molay, and fellow Templar Geoffrey de Charney, were taken to an island in the Seine called Ille des Javiaux, and slowly roasted to death over a smouldering fire. Legend has it that Molay cursed both King Philip and Pope Clement, summoning them to stand before God's judgement within the year. In any case, before the year was out both were dead.

Beware Friday the Thirteenth!

[ 02-13-2004, 09:12 AM: Message edited by: Jack Heinlen ]

[NormMessinger]

Don't let him scare you Ian. This day too shall pass.