An Interesting Thing
April 10, 2009
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Two days ago, I uploaded 2 pictures that I “dug” from my hard drive. I was not sure they were good enough to pass editor’s view, just try. When they were in my pending files, I found one of the File ID numbers is “8888880”. As many people know, in Chinese, the "8" is a lucky number. It sounds similar to the word “fa” which means "prosper" or "wealth". In Cantonese dialects "8" and "fortune" are also similar. “8888880” is the luckiest number that I met in my life so far and I didn’t want lose it. So I put my wish on “Comment for editor” area……
This morning, I saw “8888880” is in my “online files” and another one was rejected. Thank you, DT editors. Now I am interested in who got “8888888”.Some interesting things about “8”:
. “A local telephone number with all digits being eights was sold for US$270,723 in Sichuan, China.”
. “The cell phone number “1x9-8888888” (cell phone numbers are 11 digitals now in China) was sold for almost US$90,000 in Shenzhen, China in 1990s.”
. “A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for RMB 1.12 million (roughly US$164,000).”
. “The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing began on 8/8/08 at 8 seconds and 8 minutes past 8 pm (local time).”
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Good luck and happy Easter to you all!
Thanks for your reading.
Photo credits: Tracy0703.
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PublishJoezachs
Thats some interesting facts about 8
Tarzan9280
Yeah, you right, they deleted my article too! I'm not agry anymore, I'm amused。。。
Tracy0703
I like "gr8", thank you.
Fultonsphoto
gr8 photo, well done...
Tracy0703
Thank you all.
Dmccale
great flower.You should change the price to $888
good luck
Littledesire
Very interesting story! Good luck with your 8 numbers!
Irisangel
Great shot Tracy, Hope the number brings you luck!
Tracy0703
Thank you, Linqong.
Linqong
Hi,Tracy0703
Wish u good luck!
Tracy0703
Thank you, Creativei. Good luck.
Creativei
Well Im a also a 8 number person, my birthday 26 i.e. 8, and most of my best and worst things happened on either 8 or 4.
Tracy0703
Thank you, Roberto. Have a good weekend.
Roberto1977
I have a sales check of 88.88 €: are you interested? :-)) Nice blog and good luck with your photo! Bye, Rob.
Tracy0703
Thank you, Breenicole.
Breenicole
That is a beautiful lotus photo.