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    Is your lucky number, Eight?

    The Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08 p.m

    The number 8 is lucky in China and is often used for auspicious dates, times, and increments. the Beijing Olympics will begin on the eight day of the eighth month of the year 2008.


    If you read what behind "08" this go to Google and search as theres a lot out there
    Its also normally the 220 day of the year 08 08 but this year being a leap year 221.

    Chinese Eight

    The word for "eight" (八,捌) in Chinese (Pinyin: bā) sounds similar to the word which means "prosper" or "wealth" (发 - short for "发财", Pinyin: fā). In regional dialects the words for "eight" and "fortune" are also similar, eg Cantonese "baat" and "faat".

    There is also a resemblance between two digits, "88", and the shuang xi ('double joy'), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters 喜 (xi, 'joy', 'happiness').

    Telephone number 8888-8888 was sold for USD$270,723 in Chengdu, China.

    The Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08 p.m.[2]

    A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for 1.12 million yuan.[2]

    Dragon Fish Industry in Singapore, a breeder of rare Asian Arowanas (which are "lucky fish" themselves, and, being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particularly numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.[3][4]


    Just checked

    S = 19
    M = 13
    O = 15
    G = 7

    so no wonder SMOG is unlucky in China, it has no 8s!!!

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    Re: Is your lucky number, Eight?

    How does one know what their lucky number is?

    Do I get to choose? Or perhaps it is something the cosmos has decided for me?

    I see in the horoscopes in the newspapers that I have a different lucky number every day, but I share it with a 12th of the planet's population. (Or is it just with the readers of that newspaper? Or even just those that have read that horoscope?)

    BTW, here's the reference you forgot to put in your post...

    Numbers in Chinese culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Hope the Olympics goes well, and everyone does their best.
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: Is your lucky number, Eight?

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    How does one know what their lucky number is?


    When the number on your lottery ticket wins you eight million quid

    That’s your lucky number

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    Re: Is your lucky number, Eight?

    Quote Originally Posted by philsmove View Post
    When the number on your lottery ticket wins you eight million quid

    That’s your lucky number

    Thats a point, is it Euro lotto at 8pm on the 8th August 08, if so maybe I should but 8 tickets at a £1 each. making 8 pounds

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    Re: Is your lucky number, Eight?

    They're obsessed with 8s in China. I used to work for a company producing mobile phone accounting software: one of their clients was a Hong Kong operator, and they requested special software to allow them to charge different rates for numbers with 8s in them!

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    Re: Is your lucky number, Eight?

    No it, isn't.

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    Re: Is your lucky number, Eight?

    Yes, it is. However, I think I've got other lucky numbers too!

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