08-08-08. It's all happening today!
Friday, August 8th, 2008 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanWell, in Peking1, it may all have kicked off at 20:08 – 08-08-2008 but here it was 13:08 – 08-08-2008, which rather loses the romance of it all. By all accounts however, it may well keep going until eight minutes past 8 BST tonight, so maybe the symbolism may creep back in somewhere. I don’t suppose that we will do it four minutes later in London, 2012, especially as there would be complaints if we left until Christmas week to get going.
Apparently the Mandarin Chinese for 080808 sound very similar to a well known lucky proverb2, which is why they were so anxious to get it all going at that time. In London the approximate equivalent sequence of numbers (2,012,082,012?) will be too close to the projected budget overspend on the revised emergency additional secondary replacement budget of several trillions of pounds for anyone sane to want to be associated with the symbolism.
There is always the hope though that the launch of the 2012 Olympics will not also see the potential outbreak of war, either. I see that the mighty Republic of Georgia is close to bullying those wimpy Russians.
Busy old day and we have yet to find out if the world is going to be reduced to custard by bearded but moustache-less3 nu-metal Belgian scientists as they sit feeding the CERN Supercollider with 50 cent pieces.
You can have too much symbolism sometimes, but on the bright side: custard!
1I refuse to use the modern revisionist spelling and pronunciation until I find definitive evidence that the inhabitants of the Peoples’ Republic spell and pronounce Rondon plopery. That goes for Mao Tse-tung and Cash My Cheque, too.
2”You weren’t using your civil liberties anyway, so quit complaining and cough ‘em up” or something of that ilk
3That priceless mental image courtesy![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pax_draconis
Apparently the Mandarin Chinese for 080808 sound very similar to a well known lucky proverb2, which is why they were so anxious to get it all going at that time. In London the approximate equivalent sequence of numbers (2,012,082,012?) will be too close to the projected budget overspend on the revised emergency additional secondary replacement budget of several trillions of pounds for anyone sane to want to be associated with the symbolism.
There is always the hope though that the launch of the 2012 Olympics will not also see the potential outbreak of war, either. I see that the mighty Republic of Georgia is close to bullying those wimpy Russians.
Busy old day and we have yet to find out if the world is going to be reduced to custard by bearded but moustache-less3 nu-metal Belgian scientists as they sit feeding the CERN Supercollider with 50 cent pieces.
You can have too much symbolism sometimes, but on the bright side: custard!
1I refuse to use the modern revisionist spelling and pronunciation until I find definitive evidence that the inhabitants of the Peoples’ Republic spell and pronounce Rondon plopery. That goes for Mao Tse-tung and Cash My Cheque, too.
2”You weren’t using your civil liberties anyway, so quit complaining and cough ‘em up” or something of that ilk
3That priceless mental image courtesy
pax_draconis