On 5/08/2018 6:46 PM, Steven Altham wrote:
> Hi tim i find it stupid that 2113 wasn't used in Sydney because 13 is supposed to be unlucky


Numbers, numbers ...
We seems to be genetically inclined to try to make meaning without maths!

I lived in multicultural Malaysia for a while.
Chinese Malaysians always wanted a car number plate with 8s in it - the more the better.
The Mandarin Chinese word for 8 apparently sounds like the word for prosperity.

They always avoided car number plates with 4.
The Mandarin Chinese word for 4 apparently sounds like the word for death.
Malaysian Indians had no such qualms, so if your saw a car with 4 in the rego it was almost always driven by an Indian Malaysian.

Melbourne's SW6 888 survives in part because someone was savvy enough to recognise its value as a tourist attraction.

By the way, if you happen to like the Melbourne 'City Circle' cigarette carton livery of maroon and gold, get your pics ... its days are limited.

Mal Rowe - who once stayed on floor 12B in an Asian hotel