EIGHT

Today is 8 - 8 - 8.

Are you superstitious? Asian cultures consider this number lucky because it sounds like the word for 'prosper' or 'wealth'.

In your computer a byte is eight bits.

The Beatles sang about Eight Days a Week and had a number 1 hit. Very lucky!

On the eighth day of Christmas, you get eight maids a-milking. Is that good? Maybe!

Modern musical notation is based on the octave. Eight notes in a scale and then you start over.

All spiders have eight legs. Of course, every octopus has eight tentacles.

There are eight ounces in a cup and eight pints in a gallon. There might be eight vegetables in V8 juice.

In horse racing, there are eight furlongs in a mile. In golf, an eight is called a snow man. Not lucky!

When I was in the Army, you could get out on a 'section eight' --- if you were crazy.

Lay an eight on its side and its means infinity.

In rugby, the guy wearing number eight is called the 'eight man'. Those rugers are smart.

Joe Morgan of the Big Red Machine wore number eight. Yogi Berra wore it too.
Kobe Bryant wears it now.

There is a game called 'crazy eights' and a rowing crew with eight oars.

Who could forget 8-track cartridges. You should, they were a bust.

And finally, one of my favorite jokes up to the age of eight. "I say, "I one a horse." and you say "I two a horse." and we will keep going. " Of course, when the other guy says "I eight a horse." I roll over laughing.