If Friday the 13th is unlucky, then 2009 is an unusually unlucky year

-This week's Friday the 13th is one of three to endure this year.
-The first came last month. The next is in November. Such a rare triple-threat occurs only once every 11 years.
-The origin of the link between bad luck and Friday the 13th is murky. The whole thing might date to Biblical times (the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus). By the Middle Ages, both Friday and 13 were considered bearers of bad fortune.

5 Facts About Friday the 13th.

1. Fear of Friday the 13th - one of the most popular myths in science - is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13. * Umm... WhAt ???
2. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13. * My work has no room 13... : 0
3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal.
4. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12." Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest. *How Rude!
5. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number - 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen. * ooOooO Whatever!