Two weeks ago in China's Macroeconomic Impact, the professor went off on a tangent about how some of the wealthiest Chinese buy property. Since in Chinese numerology, the mystical study of numbers, eight represents luck and money, many wealthy businessmen like buy real estate in eights. So for example, a Chinese businessmen might want to buy his new apartment in New York City for $88,888,888.88. Our professor brought up that Chinese real estate buyers would often just sit down, name a price in eights, and refuse change it because any change to the price would cause them to lose the string of eights. The eight game is not just for wealthy businessmen, often small businesses will try to get in on the act too, particularly with their wifi password. Ellen's Bar's wifi is username Ellens and password 88888888, Lamian's wifi is username lamian and password 08080808 (I think the zeros also represent money). So if you are in China and need wifi, pick a random one and try 88888888 for the password, since there is a greater than zero chance that that is actually the password
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Dad
10/13/2016 12:27:21 am
I wonder if soccer players fight over having a uniform number of 8 or 88
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Jared Paul Miller
10/13/2016 10:00:44 am
I wouldn't be too surprised if they did.
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