This is from Urban
legends:-
It is said:
Never change your bed on
Friday; it will bring bad dreams.
Don't start a trip on
Friday or you will have misfortune.
If you cut your nails on
Friday, you cut them for sorrow.
Ships that set sail on a
Friday will have bad luck - as in the tale of H.M.S Friday ...
One hundred years ago,
the British government sought to quell once and for all the widespread
superstition among seamen that setting sail on Fridays was unlucky.
A special ship was
commissioned, named "H.M.S. Friday." They laid her keel on a Friday, launched
her on
a Friday, selected her crew on a Friday and hired a man named Jim Friday to be
her captain.
To top it off, H.M.S.
Friday embarked on her maiden voyage on a Friday, and was never seen or heard
from again....
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