ep19 Number Two Is Unlucky

The number two is unluckier than number thirteen. Parental pride breaks up a picket line. The thunder of machinery starts a great industry. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, those facts are all true. And this is Lindsay McCarry saying that my cohorts and I should be back in just one minute and a half to prove them.

So, stay around, won't you? It's a great deal of superstition that centers around the number thirteen. It's supposed to be unlucky, and in deference to some person's dread of it,

hotels have no thirteenth floor. No rooms ending in the number thirteen. Some people will not sit down at a dinner table at which there are thirteen guests present. In Hollywood, some of the studios, there are no sound stages number thirteen.

Can you imagine that? But we said that number two is far more unlucky than number thirteen, and it is. However, in the territoriality, or fortune telling by cards, the number two by some authorities is supposed to mean happiness, sunshine, and so forth.

But to the rulers bearing the number two, it certainly doesn't have that meaning. that meaning. For royalty, number two is doubly dangerous, and we may add to the old saying, uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, by adding, and uneasy is the ruler who is the second of his name. The proof? Well, listen to this. Some strange, even weird aura of doom

surrounds the number two when it is applied to a ruler. Be he king or emperor, or listen. Nicholas II of Russia Shot down with his family at a cut in Burg Russia July 16, 1918.

William II of Germany. Abdicated 1918 at the close of the World War. James II of England. Died in exile September 17, 1701. Francesco II of Sicily. Died in exile December 27, 1894. Charles II of France.