Friday, May 13, 2005

And Now, A Word You Can't Use in Scrabble

Paraskevidekatriaphobia: A morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Also known as friggatriskaidekaphobia.

I'm not really sure how some people can be afraid of a day. I mean, it's just a day. If you're going to be afraid of something, make it something genuinely creepy, like clowns or soft sculpture mannequins.

I have come for your SOUL!


Look at those things. They look like shriveled up dead people. Yeesh.

8 comments:

fakies said...

Yeah, but they're not as bad as those dolls that stand in the corner. They don't have faces.

I like Friday the 13th. I'm not superstitious about anything. But the U.S. Navy doesn't even launch ships on the 13th. Buncha pansies.

John said...

I'm willing to say that they are not as scary as soft sculpture people. The one in the picture isn't as bad as the ones they used to stick in furniture stores, because those ones used to have black, beady eyes.

mr. schprock said...

John, do you remember the Puritan Furniture ads with the talking chair? That was scary.

John said...

I remember the Dupont Stainmaster Carpet commercials with Don Rickles as a talking carpet, but I don't remember a talking chair. Perhaps it's for the best.

Jenn said...

ok one of your "slackers" is posting. *SIGH* The big deal with friday 13 goes back to superstition. ASK NYPINTA about the time in the canoe on the lake at some back woods music festivel and she was convinced that "FREEDIE or JASON" whatever his name was... was in the water after us.

Jenn said...

oh yea, I used to make those people like you have posted. out of pantyhose... and put my work uniforms on them and a) drive around with them as a passanger, b) leave them in the office at work so the next shift manager would be scared to death, c) put in the bathroom to scare other house hold members needlessly

Master Yoda said...

Creeped out I am by clowns and soft sculptured people. Enough to make me soil my robe it is.

fakies said...

You see what you did to Master Yoda? Way to go. *shakes head* Get those stains out OxyClean will.

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