Blame Kirky club:)

[Whoey]

"I am Kirky, therefore I am to blame"

[kirk13]

"I am Kirky, therefore I am to blame"

Very deep!

[kkokkolis]

From Wikipedia


Circe, by Charles Gumery
In Greek mythology, Circe (/ˈsɜrsiː/; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē pronounced [kírkɛ͜ɛ]) is a minor goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary island of Aeaea. Later traditions tell of her leaving or even destroying the island and moving to Italy. In particular she was identified with Cape Circeo there.

By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid. Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece and Perses, and her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur. Other accounts make her the daughter of Hecate.

Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of drugs and herbs. Through the use of magical potions and a wand she transformed her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals.


13 (number)
"Thirteen" redirects here. For other uses, see 13 (disambiguation).
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← 12   13   14 →
← 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 →
List of numbers — Integers
← 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 →
Cardinal   thirteen
Ordinal   13th
(thirteenth)
Factorization   prime
Prime   6th
Divisors   1, 13
Roman numeral   XIII
Binary   11012
Ternary   1113
Quaternary   314
Octal   158
Duodecimal   1112
Hexadecimal   D16
Vigesimal   D20
Base 36   D36

Look up thirteen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 13 (number)
13 (thirteen /θɜrˈtiːn/) is a natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest number with eight letters in its name spelled out in English.

In speech, the numbers 13 and 30 are often confused. When carefully enunciated, they differ in which syllable is stressed: 13 i/θərˈtiːn/ vs. 30 /ˈθɜrti/. However, in dates such as 1300 ("thirteen hundred") or when contrasting numbers in the teens, such as 13, 14, 15, the stress shifts to the first syllable: 13 /ˈθɜrtiːn/.

Strikingly similar folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars (there are approximately 12.41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 "true months" plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month). This can be witnessed, for example, in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" of Western European tradition.

Unlucky 13

Main article: Triskaidekaphobia
The number 13 is considered an unlucky number in some countries. Charles Stewart Parnell had an irrational fear of the number thirteen  The end of the Mayan calendar's 13th Baktun was superstitiously feared as a harbinger of the apocalyptic 2012 phenomenon. Fear of the number 13 has a specifically recognized phobia, Triskaidekaphobia, a word which was coined in 1911. The superstitious sufferers of triskaidekaphobia try to avoid bad luck by keeping away from anything numbered or labelled thirteen. As a result, companies and manufacturers use another way of numbering or labeling to avoid the number, with hotels and tall buildings being conspicuous examples (Thirteenth floor). It's also considered to be unlucky to have thirteen guests at a table. Friday the 13th has been considered the unluckiest day of the month.

There are a number of theories behind the cause of the association between thirteen and bad luck, but none of them have been accepted as likely.



The Last Supper

At Jesus Christ's last supper, there were thirteen people around the table, counting Christ and the twelve apostles. The reason this is believed to be unlucky is because one of those thirteen, Judas Iscariot, was the betrayer of Jesus Christ.

Knights Templar

On Friday 13 October 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of the Knights Templar.

Full moons

A year which contained 13 full moons instead of 12 posed problems for the monks who were in charge of the calendars. "This was considered a very unfortunate circumstance, especially by the monks who had charge of the calendar of thirteen months for that year, and it upset the regular arrangement of church festivals. For this reason thirteen came to be considered an unlucky number."

However, in a typical century, there will be about 37 years which have 13 full moons compared with 63 years with 12 full moons, and typically every third or fourth year would have 13 full moons.

The moon moves 13 degrees around the earth every day. It Takes 13 days to change from Full Moon to New Moon and 13 days to change back with 1 day Full and 1 day New to equal 28 days of the Lunar Cycle.

A repressed lunar cult

In ancient cultures, the number 13 represented femininity, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 x 28 = 364 days). The theory is that, as the solar calendar triumphed over the lunar, the number thirteen became anathema.


Triskaidekaphobia

Stall numbers at Santa Anita Park progress from 12 to 12A to 14.
Triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris meaning "3", kai meaning "and", deka meaning "10" and phobos meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is fear of the number 13 and avoidance to use it; it is a superstition and related to a specific fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.

The term was first used by Isador Coriat in Abnormal Psychology.

Origins

There is a myth that the earliest reference to thirteen being unlucky or evil is from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (circa 1780 BCE), where the thirteenth law is omitted. In fact, the original Code of Hammurabi has no numeration. The translation by L.W. King (1910), edited by Richard Hooker, omitted one article:

If the seller have gone to (his) fate (i. e., have died), the purchaser shall recover damages in said case fivefold from the estate of the seller.

Other translations of the Code of Hammurabi, for example the translation by Robert Francis Harper, include the 13th article.

Some Christian traditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table. However, the Bible itself says nothing about the order at which the Apostles sat. Also, the number 13 is not uniformly bad in the Judeo-Christian tradition. For example, the attributes of God (also called the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy) are enumerated in the Torah (Exodus 34:6–7). Some modern Christian churches also use 13 attributes of God in sermons.

Triskaidekaphobia may have also affected the Vikings—it is believed that Loki in the Norse pantheon was the 13th god—more specifically, Loki was believed to have engineered the murder of Balder, and was the 13th guest to arrive at the funeral. This is perhaps related to the superstition that if 13 people gather, one of them will die in the following year. Another Norse tradition involves the myth of Norna-Gest: when the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration—thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen—the norns cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.

Similarly, in the Grimm's version of Sleeping Beauty, the wicked fairy is the thirteenth fairy.

Ancient Persians believed the twelve constellations in the Zodiac controlled the months of the year, and each ruled the earth for a thousand years at the end of which the sky and earth collapsed in chaos. Therefore, the number is identified with chaos and the reason Persians leave their houses to avoid bad luck on the thirteenth day of the Persian Calendar, a tradition called Sizdah Bedar.

Events related to unlucky 13

On Friday 13 October 1307, the arrest of the Knights Templar was ordered by Philip IV of France.

In 1881 an influential group of New Yorkers led by U.S. Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler came together to put an end to this and other superstitions. They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called the Thirteen Club. At the first meeting, on Friday 13 January 1881 at 8:13 p.m., 13 people sat down to dine in room 13 of the venue. The guests walked under a ladder to enter the room and were seated among piles of spilled salt. Many Thirteen Clubs sprang up all over North America for the next 40 years. Their activities were regularly reported in leading newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from interest.

Apollo 13

Vehicle registration plates in the Republic of Ireland are such that the first two digits represent the year of registration of the vehicle (i.e. 11 is a 2011 registered car, 12 is 2012 and so on). In 2012 there were concerns among members of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) that the prospect of having "13" registered vehicles might discourage motorists from buying new cars due to superstition surrounding the number thirteen, and that car sales and the motor industry (which was already ailing) would suffer as a result. The government, in consultation with SIMI, introduced a system whereby 2013 registered vehicles would have their registration plates age identifier string modified to read "131" for vehicles registered in the first six months of 2013 and "132" for those registered in the latter six months of the year.

[kirk13]

From Wikipedia


Circe, by Charles Gumery
In Greek mythology, Circe (/ˈsɜrsiː/; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē pronounced [kírkɛ͜ɛ]) is a minor goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary island of Aeaea. Later traditions tell of her leaving or even destroying the island and moving to Italy. In particular she was identified with Cape Circeo there.

By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid. Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece and Perses, and her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur. Other accounts make her the daughter of Hecate.

Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of drugs and herbs. Through the use of magical potions and a wand she transformed her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals.


13 (number)
"Thirteen" redirects here. For other uses, see 13 (disambiguation).
This page has some issues
← 12   13   14 →
← 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 →
List of numbers — Integers
← 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 →
Cardinal   thirteen
Ordinal   13th
(thirteenth)
Factorization   prime
Prime   6th
Divisors   1, 13
Roman numeral   XIII
Binary   11012
Ternary   1113
Quaternary   314
Octal   158
Duodecimal   1112
Hexadecimal   D16
Vigesimal   D20
Base 36   D36

Look up thirteen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 13 (number)
13 (thirteen /θɜrˈtiːn/) is a natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest number with eight letters in its name spelled out in English.

In speech, the numbers 13 and 30 are often confused. When carefully enunciated, they differ in which syllable is stressed: 13 i/θərˈtiːn/ vs. 30 /ˈθɜrti/. However, in dates such as 1300 ("thirteen hundred") or when contrasting numbers in the teens, such as 13, 14, 15, the stress shifts to the first syllable: 13 /ˈθɜrtiːn/.

Strikingly similar folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars (there are approximately 12.41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 "true months" plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month). This can be witnessed, for example, in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" of Western European tradition.

Unlucky 13

Main article: Triskaidekaphobia
The number 13 is considered an unlucky number in some countries. Charles Stewart Parnell had an irrational fear of the number thirteen  The end of the Mayan calendar's 13th Baktun was superstitiously feared as a harbinger of the apocalyptic 2012 phenomenon. Fear of the number 13 has a specifically recognized phobia, Triskaidekaphobia, a word which was coined in 1911. The superstitious sufferers of triskaidekaphobia try to avoid bad luck by keeping away from anything numbered or labelled thirteen. As a result, companies and manufacturers use another way of numbering or labeling to avoid the number, with hotels and tall buildings being conspicuous examples (Thirteenth floor). It's also considered to be unlucky to have thirteen guests at a table. Friday the 13th has been considered the unluckiest day of the month.

There are a number of theories behind the cause of the association between thirteen and bad luck, but none of them have been accepted as likely.



The Last Supper

At Jesus Christ's last supper, there were thirteen people around the table, counting Christ and the twelve apostles. The reason this is believed to be unlucky is because one of those thirteen, Judas Iscariot, was the betrayer of Jesus Christ.

Knights Templar

On Friday 13 October 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of the Knights Templar.

Full moons

A year which contained 13 full moons instead of 12 posed problems for the monks who were in charge of the calendars. "This was considered a very unfortunate circumstance, especially by the monks who had charge of the calendar of thirteen months for that year, and it upset the regular arrangement of church festivals. For this reason thirteen came to be considered an unlucky number."

However, in a typical century, there will be about 37 years which have 13 full moons compared with 63 years with 12 full moons, and typically every third or fourth year would have 13 full moons.

The moon moves 13 degrees around the earth every day. It Takes 13 days to change from Full Moon to New Moon and 13 days to change back with 1 day Full and 1 day New to equal 28 days of the Lunar Cycle.

A repressed lunar cult

In ancient cultures, the number 13 represented femininity, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 x 28 = 364 days). The theory is that, as the solar calendar triumphed over the lunar, the number thirteen became anathema.


Triskaidekaphobia

Stall numbers at Santa Anita Park progress from 12 to 12A to 14.
Triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris meaning "3", kai meaning "and", deka meaning "10" and phobos meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is fear of the number 13 and avoidance to use it; it is a superstition and related to a specific fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.

The term was first used by Isador Coriat in Abnormal Psychology.

Origins

There is a myth that the earliest reference to thirteen being unlucky or evil is from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (circa 1780 BCE), where the thirteenth law is omitted. In fact, the original Code of Hammurabi has no numeration. The translation by L.W. King (1910), edited by Richard Hooker, omitted one article:

If the seller have gone to (his) fate (i. e., have died), the purchaser shall recover damages in said case fivefold from the estate of the seller.

Other translations of the Code of Hammurabi, for example the translation by Robert Francis Harper, include the 13th article.

Some Christian traditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table. However, the Bible itself says nothing about the order at which the Apostles sat. Also, the number 13 is not uniformly bad in the Judeo-Christian tradition. For example, the attributes of God (also called the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy) are enumerated in the Torah (Exodus 34:6–7). Some modern Christian churches also use 13 attributes of God in sermons.

Triskaidekaphobia may have also affected the Vikings—it is believed that Loki in the Norse pantheon was the 13th god—more specifically, Loki was believed to have engineered the murder of Balder, and was the 13th guest to arrive at the funeral. This is perhaps related to the superstition that if 13 people gather, one of them will die in the following year. Another Norse tradition involves the myth of Norna-Gest: when the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration—thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen—the norns cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.

Similarly, in the Grimm's version of Sleeping Beauty, the wicked fairy is the thirteenth fairy.

Ancient Persians believed the twelve constellations in the Zodiac controlled the months of the year, and each ruled the earth for a thousand years at the end of which the sky and earth collapsed in chaos. Therefore, the number is identified with chaos and the reason Persians leave their houses to avoid bad luck on the thirteenth day of the Persian Calendar, a tradition called Sizdah Bedar.

Events related to unlucky 13

On Friday 13 October 1307, the arrest of the Knights Templar was ordered by Philip IV of France.

In 1881 an influential group of New Yorkers led by U.S. Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler came together to put an end to this and other superstitions. They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called the Thirteen Club. At the first meeting, on Friday 13 January 1881 at 8:13 p.m., 13 people sat down to dine in room 13 of the venue. The guests walked under a ladder to enter the room and were seated among piles of spilled salt. Many Thirteen Clubs sprang up all over North America for the next 40 years. Their activities were regularly reported in leading newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from interest.

Apollo 13

Vehicle registration plates in the Republic of Ireland are such that the first two digits represent the year of registration of the vehicle (i.e. 11 is a 2011 registered car, 12 is 2012 and so on). In 2012 there were concerns among members of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) that the prospect of having "13" registered vehicles might discourage motorists from buying new cars due to superstition surrounding the number thirteen, and that car sales and the motor industry (which was already ailing) would suffer as a result. The government, in consultation with SIMI, introduced a system whereby 2013 registered vehicles would have their registration plates age identifier string modified to read "131" for vehicles registered in the first six months of 2013 and "132" for those registered in the latter six months of the year.

Sorry,your point is...
 

[kkokkolis]

There's no point, just data.

[kirk13]

Ok,just asking

[Whoey]

From Wikipedia


Circe, by Charles Gumery
In Greek mythology, Circe (/ˈsɜrsiː/; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē pronounced [kírkɛ͜ɛ]) is a minor goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary island of Aeaea. Later traditions tell of her leaving or even destroying the island and moving to Italy. In particular she was identified with Cape Circeo there.

Emphasis added

[Gareth]

Kirky is a greek witch known for using herbs eh?  Could be, could be.....

[nuphoria]

Sir Kirk of Blamington Hall

I like that!OK if I use this?

Might have to charge you royalties.... you're wearing it well though

It's all very Downton Abbey!

[Grumpy]

It's kirky's fault the old guy in the hospital bed next to mine snored and broke wind all night!!!!!

[Gareth]

It's kirky's fault the old guy in the hospital bed next to mine snored and broke wind all night!!!!!

Kirky's evil influence knows no bounds! 

[Grumpy]

I think he now has the power to possess the old n infirm

[Taxi Dad]

I think he now has the power to possess the old n infirm

i think he may be their leader

[Grumpy]

Kirky could be vincent price's love child 

[Taxi Dad]

i think it's the other way Grumpy, Vincent Price may well be the spawn of Kirk ?
(chicken V egg) 

[Grumpy]

 

[kkokkolis]

Grumpy, where were you? We had to blame him all by ourselves. Back to work, quickly! 

[Grumpy]

Grumpy, where were you? We had to blame him all by ourselves. Back to work, quickly! 

Unfortunately i was in hospital with chest pains, but now i'm back i promise to find every reason to blame kirky

[kkokkolis]

I hope you are a man of steel now.

[enki_ck]

A relative of yours, Kirky?

[kirk13]

A relative of yours, Kirky?

(Image removed from quote.)

Strangely enough...

[Taxi Dad]

 
the Kirky curse ! spreading the love

[tattoosteve99]

Enough! Stop picking on Kirk or else

[Taxi Dad]

Kirky made be buy a Vic Spirit !
lent me his to wet my appetite then, when he took it away, he pointed out one that was for sale, while i was still suffering seperation anxiety 
I can't be blamed for it can I ? so it HAS to be HIS fault 

[enki_ck]

It has Kirky written all over it. And he made it slipery too.

[Metropolicity]

I helped Kirk become the force he is now....Made him done awls and parts.

[Taxi Dad]

MT.o is a much richer place with Kirky in it...not so much my wallet though 
(he forces me to drink beer too, if i let him  )

[jerseydevil]

MT.o is a much richer place with Kirky in it...not so much my wallet though 
(he forces me to drink beer too, if i let him )

Isn't that something you should be thanking rather than blaming him for?     

[JAfromMn]

I'm wondering where he hide my micra.

[kirk13]

I'm wondering where he hide my micra.

It's on my keyring...you want it back?