Eight is considered a lucky number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word meaning to generate wealth. Property with the number 8 may be valued greatly by Chinese. For example, a Hong Kong number plate with the number 8 was sold for $640,000. The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing started at 8 seconds and 8 minutes past 8 pm (local time) on August 8, 2008.
If you're a Jewish baby boy, well ...... -
The Jewish religious rite of brit milah (commonly known as circumcision) is held on a baby boy's eighth day of life.
A lot more about 8 in Wikipedia.
So I went back in my blog and looked at 111 through 777. I didn't start doing the triple digit thing until 555. But looking at the other triples was interesting. Especially 111. It was a sad day for a blogger.
http://mikenet707.blogspot.com/2009/04/777-seven-seven-seven.html
http://mikenet707.blogspot.com/2009/01/666-devils-in-details.html
http://mikenet707.blogspot.com/2008/09/555-five-five-five.html
http://mikenet707.blogspot.com/2008/06/444-i-forgot-to-mention.html
http://mikenet707.blogspot.com/2008/03/333-time.html
http://mikenet707.blogspot.com/2007/11/222-klu-klux-khicken.html
http://mikenet707.blogspot.com/2007/01/111-checking-in.html
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I'm Chinese and I couldn't believe it when I was assigned a bank account number with eight 8s in it. I expected good things with that account. NOTHING HAPPENED! In fact, its the account I'm thinking of closing.
I tried not to think of the 5 at the beginning of the number.In Chinese, that sounds like the word for "don't"....maybe thats why *sigh*
What are the odds?? Getting the eight 8s and then also getting the 5!
Speaking of lucky numbers, there was a single winner of the 258m powerball in North Carolina.
A - Maybe that's why that eight 8's account number was available. Because of the leading 5. Time to dump it.
B - Did I mention my trip to North Carolina a couple of days ago? And I've got an extended vacation planned real soon. I'll be in touch .... later. Much later.
You're behind the 8-ball with those lame jokes from a couple of days ago. But I'll forgive you by tomorrow, when I can wish you a happy thirty-third wedding anniversary. I hope we can have at least that many more. If we can get people to quit threatening to kill one another over reforming health insurance, we have a fighting chance. (Isn't that whole sentence so truly patriotic, with its many references to our rights to verbally accost one another and threaten physical harm or to be ready to react to it, real or imagined? Yeah. I thought so, too!) I also want to say you look (and have always looked)a bazillion times better than Eddie, the Beave or Wally. XXXXOOOOO
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