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Old May 22, 2014 | 2:51 pm
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bacx
 
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Originally Posted by SJOGuy
Could those of us not in the know get a little lesson on why some numbers are good and others not? I know that 8 is an auspicious number.
1 sounds like "must"
2 "easy"
3 "birth/life"
4 "death"
5 "not"
6 "road" in context of 168 - one road to prosperity
7 - if mispronounced sounds like a male organ
8 - wealth
9 - enough

So good flight numbers are 828/838/888... etc no surprise these are the YYZ/YVR/JFK flights.
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