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[Charles]

 > I don't wanna offend anybody at all.

Yes thats what i figured :).  Just wanted to let you know.

 > 6,8,9 are lucky numbers in Chinese. 6 means able and successful.
 > 8 means earning money and get rich. 9 means long time and long life.
 > Some Chinese even spent much money to gain an auto license or mobile
 > phone number which ends with 6,8 or 9.


Cool, are there any 'unlucky' chinese numbers ?


US has unlucky 13 -- alot of buildings wont even have a floor 13, they 
go straight to 14.

Charlie



Shawn Liu wrote:
> "Charles" <noone at nowhere.com> says:dtctla$27hj$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>Also not sure if you know this , but your email has 666 in it, which in 
>>the
>>christian faith is 'The Mark of the Beast', represents the devil.
>>
>>Actually Ive heard lots of theories as to what this means but the most
>>popular is that the Roman Ruler at the time ( Nero Ceasar ), in its seven
>>letter hebrew name adds up to 666 ( 50+200+6+50+100+60+200 )  . All hebrew
>>letters have a numeric value.  Theres a whole jewish sub culture that 
>>tries
>>to find hidden meanings in words, called Gematria .  This was recently
>>popularized by the Darren Arronfsky's movie PI -- where the true name for
>>god lies in PI .
>>
>>
>>Anyway you might consider removing that or risk offending some one :).
>>
>>Charlie
>>
> 
> 
> I don't wanna offend anybody at all.
> 
> 
> 6,8,9 are lucky numbers in Chinese. 6 means able and successful.
> 8 means earning money and get rich. 9 means long time and long life.
> Some Chinese even spent much money to gain an auto license or mobile
> phone number which ends with 6,8 or 9.
> 
> And more, the pronunciation of 6 in Chinese is the same as "liu".
> And the email address without numbers is occuppied by somebody else.
> That is why I choose this as my e-mail address.
> 
> 
>