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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: 888

Kinda cool— I just noticed we have 888 registered users.
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bobsouer · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:50 am Post subject:

Deirdre,

Very cool. It's all toll free now, huh? Laugh

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todd ellis · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:18 am Post subject:

the same forward, backward & upside down!
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asnively · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:19 am Post subject:

The mark of the... Pool Shark?
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject:

I thought this was going to be another one of those "can't say today" posts. Toll-free phone numbers starting with "888" can be a bit of a nuisance, but car prices like $26,888 (twenty-six thousand eight eighty-eight) are the bane of my existence, especially because there are usually three similarly* priced cars jammed into the same commercial.

*"Similarly" is no picnic either.
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bobsouer · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

Lee,

I'm with you on the similarly.
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Frank F · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject:

If you turn the three "8's" on their side you get three times infinity.

In China, the symbol for the number "8" (as a symbol for infinity) is a good luck charm for attracting money. Some people throughout the world actually carry the number symbol written upon a piece of paper in their wallet and are said to have received large sums of money within days. Gasp

There of course is a caveat here: Be careful what you wish for; as in Newton's Third Law - For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

With three "8's", it means that sacks and sacks of money times three will be coming to our doorstep, SOON! Right? Wink

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Bruce · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:25 am Post subject:

Gee, while we're on the topic of what the Chinese think of the number 8, in Mandarin 8 is pronounced "bah", and so is the word for "father". That is why August 8th, or 8/8 (bah bah), is Father's Day in Taiwan.

And I know this because my Dad's Dad lived in China in the 1920's and 30's (until the Japanese took over) as a top man in General Motors Asia division, and the family always called him Baba, even back here in the States.

Bah humbug,

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todd ellis · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:53 am Post subject:

whoops ... and off we go .... 890!

i wonder if there will be a prize for the 1000th member???
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Moe Egan · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:02 am Post subject:

Yea, Todd, they get a strip tease from you!
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

Bruce--

Bah's bah celebrated bah bah on Bah Bah?
Wow and 888. And counting.
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