Friday the 13!!!

[David Kelly]

I wanted to beat everyone at saying that it is Friday the 13, eventhough I am posting this on the Thursday the 12...lol

[Tom Fairchild]

Hmmm... 18 hour drive to northern MI on Friday the 13th.

~Tom~, who luckily doesn't believe in bad luck etc.

[Kris Verdeyen]

Tom built a robot and doesn't believe in luck?

Anytime something I build works, I consider myself lucky. In fact, I always rub a piece of garlic on a penny and keep it in my shoe. (thanks to Scott Adams' The Dilbert Principle )

[EddieMcD]

Superstitions are flaws of humans. The High Priest is glad he isn't human.

-Ed "Thinks he's said too much." McDonnell

[Christina]

I didn't even realize it was Friday the 13th until I had to write down the date. And actually, I had a pretty good day, so much for superstitions.

~Christina ºoº

[Carolyn Duncan]

April 13, (friday?), 13:00, Apollo 13 took off. I don't know if it was superstitions that caused the problem or not. Actually, my best friend had a black cat. The only bad Friday the 13th I had was the one I didn't see the cat. I'm still suporstitious though. It gives the world one more common bond to complain about.
C~ya, Carolyn who thinks everyone has to have something to complain about, be it valid or not.

[EddieMcD]

Humans... are... strange...

-Ed "Yes, this is a post to boost his post count" McDonnell

[Carolyn Duncan]

Every animal is, in some way, strange. Strange is not bad. I really think you should start a thread of random posts and useless info.
C~ya,
Carolyn

[Libby Ritchie]

David...your wonderous team leader had a bad Friday the 13th...he left Courtland, NY...got about 1 1/2 hours away, then realized he accidentally took someone's keys that he was holding for them! So, he had to drive all the way back, then turn around and start back to Indiana again. THEN...there were no open hotels, so he made the drive straight threw....10 hours. He's tired!!

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Libby Ritchie
David...your wonderous team leader had a bad Friday the 13th...he left Courtland, NY...got about 1 1/2 hours away, then realized he accidentally took someone's keys that he was holding for them! So, he had to drive all the way back, then turn around and start back to Indiana again. THEN...there were no open hotels, so he made the drive straight threw....10 hours. He's tired!!

Well at least scott is getting better at remembering keys. he usually locks them in his truck or leaves them in the door lock of his office. But was he tired enough to see cows and farm animals?

[EddieMcD]

Maybe The High Priest should start something totally useless on these boards.

[Jgreenwd1]

hey you guys thinck you go it bad i work with the police as a cadet and i can't thinck of what could go wrong on friday the 13th. :(


PS: even thought this is a few days late

[Carolyn Duncan]

I once got all the way to school, 30 minute drive, before I realized that I wasn't wearing any shoes. I had to go in and get permission to go home. The administrators weren't very happy about that,they wanted my mom to bring my shoes to the school.
C~ya,
Carolyn

[EddieMcD]

The High Priest doesn't believe in luck. Sure, he has a good-luck necklace, but he knows it really doesn't affect anything. Well, unless it gives him telekinetic powers, and that hasn't happened yet. ;)

[Carolyn Duncan]

That's something you have to develop on your own. Doesn't come from a necklace. Sorry
C~ya,
Carolyn

[mike o'leary]

me, im a good irishman...i know theres such a thing as luck

[Carolyn Duncan]

I believe in luck too, well maybe it's fate. Anyway, there is something out there that sets the events of the world in motion..

[EddieMcD]

Yes. We call it Murphy's Law.

[Carolyn Duncan]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
Yes. We call it Murphy's Law.
Who is we? Are you trying to speak regally and take my title away?

[Karl]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
Yes. We call it Murphy's Law.

Speak for yourself, I call it "gravity" but since we're on a first-name basis, so I usually call it "Bob".

[Carolyn Duncan]

But gravity is a perpendicular force so it doesn't apply to everything. Oh, scary. I just used something I learned in physics.
*SHREIKS in fear and agony*

[Matt Leese]

And I call it Energy. Or mass (E=mc^2). Or velocity (KE=.5mv^2). Or gravity (PE=mgh). Or.....


Matt who's done now ;)

[EddieMcD]

Ok, so Murphy's law can't be proven, but it's what explains all the bad stuff that happens. And actually, gravity doesn't make us move unless we make a counter-movement to it. Of course, then you could argue that the Earth is constantly rotating and revolving around our sun, and since gravity keeps us in place, we are moving with the earth, so Newton's first law applies.

-Ed "My head hurts" McDonnell

[mike o'leary]

personally, i have a different definition for what sets everything in motion. as any good irishman knows, theres 2 things, other then the pub, that shape the world, put events into motion, and all that. God and luck

[EddieMcD]

Luck doesn't exist. It's all in your mind.

God, well, that all depends on your religion, and I'm not religious whatsoever.

[Carolyn Duncan]

Originally posted by mike o'leary
personally, i have a different definition for what sets everything in motion. as any good irishman knows, theres 2 things, other then the pub, that shape the world, put events into motion, and all that. God and luck
Well put. Don't forget the feeling you have when you walk out of the pub, kinda dizzy, and half dead... Not that I'd know from personal experience.

[EddieMcD]

I guess the dizzyness is technically motion.

[Carolyn Duncan]

Don't get all techy about it, just laugh.

[mike o'leary]

Originally posted by Carolyn Duncan

Well put. Don't forget the feeling you have when you walk out of the pub, kinda dizzy, and half dead... Not that I'd know from personal experience.

who walks out? stumbles maybe, or carried, but walk out???

[Carolyn Duncan]

Oooops! Stupid, silly mistake. I guess I don't really remember leaving a pub very well.

[Tom Fairchild]

You forgot carried Mike.

~Tom~

[Flair]

There's a lot of things that go up in our head, and many people have tried for many long years to try and explain them, learn about them, study them, and change them. However our mind is sooooo complex, even with our technology, and knowledge, we still don't fully understand the brain. The power of the mind, does it actually overcome the power of the body? Well maby, or maby not. I know if you think your hitting a soft, easily broken object, when you hit a concrete block, if your convinced its easily broken, then you will break through the block. I also know if you convince somebody they are about to be burned, and then blind-fold them, then take an ice-cube and touch it to their skin, their skin will boil up and burn. There are a lot of things we don't know, is luck one of them?

[mike o'leary]

Originally posted by Tom Fairchild
You forgot carried Mike.

~Tom~

no i didnt...

who walks out? stumbles maybe, or carried, but walk out???

oh and carolyn: youre not supposed to remember it

[EddieMcD]

And he should know. :D

Sorry, you left yourself wide open for that. ;)

[Tom Fairchild]

<---- feels stupid because this is the second time that he's said Mike's left something out of a post and hasn't.

<---- apparently can't read

<---- gives Mike his deepest appoligies.

[Carolyn Duncan]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
And he should know. :D

Sorry, you left yourself wide open for that. ;)
I'm going to pm you my response to that because I want to continue posting on this forum!

[Carolyn Duncan]

Originally posted by Tom Fairchild
<---- feels stupid because this is the second time that he's said Mike's left something out of a post and hasn't.

<---- apparently can't read

<---- gives Mike his deepest appoligies.
The same Tom Fairchild who was with Carolyn at the team party when she had to leave one of the "clubs" due to an incident involving a table. Your a rebel Tom, who sometimes uses that last brain cell for things other than thinking. :)
You know I'm just joking.

[Tom Fairchild]

Hey now! I thought we were keeping that one a secret!

~Tom~, who WASN'T the one dancing on the table (Carolyn...... ;) )

[Carolyn Duncan]

Originally posted by Tom Fairchild
Hey now! I thought we were keeping that one a secret!
~Tom~, who WASN'T the one dancing on the table (Carolyn...... ;) )

Shh! I didn't tell everyone what happend, that was all you. You coulda kept your fingers still on that one. Besides, it was on the big screen out side, can't really keep that a secret. Did I tell you that the next day some people asked me about that? Now that I think about it, there is evidence of another "incident" from VCU...

[Flair]

Maby someone should start a new thread entitled "dirty secrets of FIRSTers" Because with all this going on I might...

j/k

[EddieMcD]

Just what we need: another tabloid

[Carolyn Duncan]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
Just what we need: another tabloid
Hey! At least this one will be somewhat better to read due to the fact that it pretains to FIRST and we'll understand more. It'l also be more fun to tease people at nats. How about if I call it something a bit nicer than dirty little secrets? This is a family site ya know.

[EddieMcD]

Secrets of FIRSTers that might have them compared to Bill Clinton and Gary Condit?

[Carolyn Duncan]

Theirs weren't really secrets now were they?

[mike o'leary]

somehow i doubt it would be another tabloid...cuz i have a scary feeling that nothing posted there would be fictitious.

[Carolyn Duncan]

Us FIRSTers are such rebels. See what happens when you cut us off from society for 6 weeks, we get crazy.

[mike o'leary]

either that or were all just insane

[EddieMcD]

I'm gonna have to agree with Mike on that one.

[Carolyn Duncan]

Granted but the 6 weeks adds to it.
Take the s out of insane and you get inane~ adj: useless; pointless; unneeded.