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It seems like some from one demography or the other worry about that kind of stuff.
I once had a phone number (312) 668-3666; didn't bother me in the least but it sure did some people!
Also how many others here have been to a high rise building, a hotel in particular, that does not have a 13th Floor. I know I have.
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quote:Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: Also how many others here have been to s high rise building, a hotel in particular, that does not have a 13th Floor. I know I have.
And some of the newest hotels in Las Vegas take the superstition thing to the extreme. Wynn and Encore skip the 40's entirely. The elevator buttons go from floor 39 to floor 50. Something about Asian gamblers not liking anything in the 40's for some reason.
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Just to rerail this thread appropriately, I must observe that there is a Room 13 on the lower level of the Superliner sleepers.
I've slept in Room 13 a number of times. No bad luck, except for a few poltergeists that came out at night and tweaked my toes.
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quote:Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: It seems like some from one demography or the other worry about that kind of stuff.
I once had a phone number (312) 668-3666; didn't bother me in the least but it sure did some people!
Also how many others here have been to a high rise building, a hotel in particular, that does not have a 13th Floor. I know I have.
The old East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Narrow Guage Railroad (which ceased narrow guage operations in 1950) skipped 13 in numbering their steam locomotives. Their penultimate 4-6-0 was #12 and their last narrow guage locomotive was #14.
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Seems I remember some airliners who skipped row 13. I wonder if the switch to computerized systems made it more difficult to omit rows, floors, seats, etc. or if we've become less superstitious.
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My daughter, who turns four in a couple of weeks, loves to intentionally skip a number when counting.
(ie: I'm going to count to 47.....listen for the number I leave out. Here my wife and I were thinking we might have an artist or a great musician but instead she seems to be of the mathematician persuasion.)
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quote:Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: Also how many others here have been to s high rise building, a hotel in particular, that does not have a 13th Floor. I know I have.
And some of the newest hotels in Las Vegas take the superstition thing to the extreme. Wynn and Encore skip the 40's entirely. The elevator buttons go from floor 39 to floor 50. Something about Asian gamblers not liking anything in the 40's for some reason.
9/9/09 is 666 upside down???? No it is not. Turn it upside down and you get 60/6/6, which is not the same thing. I think the only thing upside down here is the guy's brain.
Not to mention that in the original the number did not look anything like a series of 6's as we know them. Don't know how the Greeks made their numbers at that time (about 90-95AD). Remember, the New Testament was originally written in Greek. Now, if you write it in Roman Numerals, you get DCLXVI, which is all the letters used in making Roman Numerals except the M for 1000.
As to the Chinese superstition about 4: This is because the Chinesse word for four and the Chinese word for dead or dying, I am not quite sure which, sound amost exactly the same. Hospitals in particular are not going to have a fourth floor in areas where Chinese (Mandarin at least, not sure about the others) is spoken. After all, if in a hospital, would you want to be in a room on the "DYING" floor.
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I realized that today with the re-release of the Beatles albums that inverting the date it becomes 6-6-6 proving conclusively that the Beatles are evil.
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quote:Originally posted by whistler: I realized that today with the re-release of the Beatles albums that inverting the date it becomes 6-6-6 proving conclusively that the Beatles are evil.
Unfortunately todays generation will never know the obscene and guilty pleasure of taking a 45 or 33rpm vinyl record and playing it backwards on the turntable to almost hear a voice in the scratchy garble quoting demonic nonsense. ;-) redrum redrum redrum...
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There is also a Y2K story with this date, as the first Y2K Bug that we had to remove was from some old COBOL programs that used 09/09/99 as a "date error condition" thinking that the program would long be out of service before this date was reached for real. Problem was, many of these old programs were still operational and with very few folks that still knew COBOL to make the fix.
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Seems like the 09/09/99 date would have caused errors well before Y2K, especially on 09/09/99. As an old COBOL programmer, I found most stupid date processing mistakes found in the Y2K conversions really had nothing to do with Y2K. Ah, the price we paid for saving money not storing those extra 2 century digits. But then I can't complain because we collected a lot of extra bucks fixing it.
I still have the National Enquirer headline claiming a nationwide power outages and a stock market crash will occur when 2000 arrives. To which my fellow COBOL programmer replied "How can the stock market crash during a nationwide power outage?".
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