Time is of the offence

I'm still tired, but I've made it through another week. I'm in tomorrow, but it's all about Hallowe'en preparations so I won't have to deal with the public. Which is a good thing, because I'm not feeling particularly customer-friendly at the moment.I'm not bothered about the fact that today is a day of 'superstition', but it always makes me smile to myself when I get a chance to make up a few facts about something, so... for possibly the fourth or fifth time since I started writing this blog... I present for you:
13 Bullshit Facts About Friday the 13th.

 1. Jesus was crucified on Friday 13th August AD37. That's why it's seen as unlucky.

 2. His last words - misquoted in the Bible - were "Shit. And we'd only just put the clocks forward. Now I'll miss the sunny evenings."

 3. William Shakespeare handed in the final draft of 'Romeo and Juliet' on Friday 13th May 1601.

 4. It had changed dramatically (pardon the pun) since the first draft, in which the star-crossed lovers ended the play by going off together for a holiday in Morocco.

 5. Ghosts are far more likely to appear on Friday 13th than any other day in a month.

 6. Apart from Saturday 6th. That seems to bring them out in droves.

 7. This blog was launched on Friday 13th September 1967.

 8. I was also born on Friday the 13th. But because my parents were worried about curses and things, they registered my birth as a week later, on the 20th.

 9. "Friday the 13th" was the name of the Best In Show winner at Crufts in 1929. It was a bearded sheepdog.

10. It was also the name of the Grand National winning horse in 1963, when by a strange coincidence the race was run on Friday 13th April.

11. Friday 13th November 2088 will actually fall on a Saturday.

12. There can never be a full moon and a Friday the 13th in the same calendar month.

13. The real correct English spelling of the phrase should be 'Fryday the Thyrteenth'. We get it wrong because we're morons. And something that happened with the French ambassador in 1711. Not sure what that was as the records were all destroyed in a fire.

 

Not my greatest blog ever but a fun one to work on and I'm smiling again.

RC 13-10-23