Condition: Uncirculated

Ownership of this jewel should equal the impact of all your childhood Christmases combined at the same exact moment. we have ever seen. One might wish to wear sunglasses when viewing this headlight, as a glance may be akin to looking at the opened lost ark, the burning bush of exodus, or directly into the eye of god. Far more rare than equivalent #1 notes.

When we examined this note for the first time we could not believe what we had seen. I even pinched myself to be certain I was actually awake.

A Federal Reserve Note (FRNs or ferns, not to be confused with "Federal Reserve Bank Note") is a type of banknote issued by the Federal Reserve System and is the only type of American banknotes that still circulates today.

Federal Reserve Notes are fiat currency, with the words "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" printed on each bill. (See generally 31 U.S.C. § 5103.) They are issued by the Federal Reserve Banks and have replaced United States Notes, which were once issued by the Treasury Department.

The paper that Federal Reserve Notes are printed on is made by the Crane Paper Company of Dalton, Massachusetts.

The first institution with responsibilities of a central bank in the U.S. was the First Bank of the United States, chartered in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton. Its charter was not renewed in 1811. In 1816, the Second Bank of the United States was chartered; its charter was not renewed in 1836, after it became the object of a major attack by president Andrew Jackson. From 1837 to 1862, in the Free Banking Era there was no formal central bank. From 1862 to 1913, a system of national banks was instituted by the 1863 National Banking Act. A series of bank panics, in 1873, 1893, and 1907 provided strong demand for the creation of a centralized banking system. The first printed notes were Series 1914.

The authority of the Federal Reserve Banks to issue notes comes from the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Legally, they are liabilities of the Federal Reserve Banks and obligations of the United States government. Although not issued by the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve Notes carry the (engraved) signature of the Treasurer of the United States and the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

Federal Reserve Notes are fiat currency, which means that the government is not obligated to give the holder of a note gold, silver, or any specific tangible commodity in exchange for the note. Before 1971, the notes were "backed" by gold: that is, the law provided that holders of Federal Reserve notes could exchange them on demand for a fixed amount of gold (though from 1934–1971 only foreign holders of the notes could exchange the notes on demand). Since 1971, federal reserve notes have not been backed by any specific asset. While 12 U.S.C. § 411 states that "Federal Reserve Notes . . . shall be redeemed in lawful money on demand" this means only that Federal Reserve banks will exchange the notes on demand for new Federal Reserve notes. Thus today the notes are backed only by the "full faith and credit of the U.S. government"—the government's ability to levy taxes to pay its debts. In another sense, because the notes are legal tender, they are "backed" by all the goods and services in the economy; they have value because the public accepts them in exchange for valued goods and services. Intrinsically they are worth the value of their ink and paper components.

Federal Reserve Notes are printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), a bureau of the Department of the Treasury. The Federal Reserve Banks pay the BEP only the cost of printing the notes (about 4¢ a note), but to circulate the note as new currency rather than merely replacing worn notes, they must pledge collateral for the face value, primarily in Federal securities.

Federal Reserve notes, on average, remain in circulation for the following periods of time:

The Federal Reserve does not publish an average life span for the $2 bill. This is likely due to the fact that it is treated as a collector's item by the general public, and therefore is not subjected to normal circulation.

In contrast, the Federal Reserve pays the United States Mint—another Treasury bureau—face value for coins, as coins are direct obligations of the Treasury.

A commercial bank that maintains a reserve account with the Federal Reserve can obtain notes from the Federal Reserve Bank in its district whenever it wishes. The bank must pay for the notes in full, dollar for dollar, by debiting (drawing down) its reserve account. Smaller banks without a reserve account at the Federal Reserve can maintain their reserve accounts at larger "correspondent banks" which themselves maintain reserve accounts with the Federal Reserve.

U.S. paper currency has had many nicknames and slang terms, some of which ("sawbuck" and "double-sawbuck") are now obsolete. The notes themselves are generally referred to as bills (as in "five-dollar bill") and any combination of U.S. notes and coins as bucks (as in "fifty bucks").

See tables below for nicknames for individual denomination

• Greenbacks, any amount in any denomination of Federal Reserve Note (from the green ink used on the back)


• Dead presidents, any amount in any denomination of Federal Reserve Note (from the portrait of a U.S. president on most denominations)


• One hundred dollar bills are sometimes called "Benjamins" (in reference to their portrait of Benjamin Franklin) or C-Notes (the letter "C" stands for the Roman Numeral 100).


• One thousand dollars ($1000) can be referenced as "Large", "K", "Grand" or "Stack", and as a "G" (short for "grand").

Many more slang terms refer to money in general (moolah, paper, cash, etc.).

Despite the relatively late addition of color and other anti-counterfeiting features to U.S. currency, critics hold that it is still a straightforward matter to counterfeit these bills. They point out that the ability to reproduce color images is well within the capabilities of modern color printers, most of which are affordable to many consumers. These critics suggest that the Federal Reserve should incorporate holographic features, as are used in most other major currencies, such as the pound sterling, Canadian dollar and euro banknotes, which are more difficult and expensive to forge. Another robust technology, the polymer banknote, has been developed for the Australian dollar and adopted for the New Zealand dollar, Romanian leu, Thai baht, Papua New Guinea kina and other circulating, as well as commemorative, banknotes of a number of other countries. Polymer banknotes are a deterrent to the counterfeiter, as they are much more difficult and time consuming to reproduce. They are more secure, cleaner and more durable than paper notes.

However, U.S. currency may not be as vulnerable as it is said to be. Two of the most critical anti-counterfeiting features of U.S. currency are the paper and the ink. The exact composition of the paper is confidential, as is the formula for the ink. The ink and paper combine to create a distinct texture, particularly as the currency is circulated. The paper and the ink alone have no effect on the value of the dollar until post print. These characteristics can be hard to duplicate without the proper equipment and materials.

The differing sizes of other nations' banknotes are a security feature that eliminates one form of counterfeiting to which U.S. currency is prone: Counterfeiters can simply bleach the ink off a low-denomination note, typically a single dollar, and reprint it as a higher-value note, such as a $100 bill. To counter this, the U.S. government has included a vertical strip imprinted with denominational information, and has considered making lower-denomination notes slightly smaller than those of higher denomination. Current proposals suggest making the $1 and $5 bills an inch shorter in length and a half-inch shorter in height

Critics also note that U.S. bills are often hard to tell apart: they use very similar designs, they are printed in the same colors (until the 2003 banknotes), and they are all the same size. Advocates for the blind have argued that American paper currency design should use increasing sizes according to value and/or raised or indented features to make the currency more usable by the vision-impaired, since the denominations cannot currently be distinguished from one another non-visually. Use of Braille codes on currency is not considered a desirable solution because (1) these markings would only be useful to people who know how to read braille, and (2) one braille symbol can become confused with another if even one bump is rubbed off. Though some blind individuals say that they have no problems keeping track of their currency because they fold their bills in different ways or keep them in different places in their wallets, they nevertheless must rely on sighted people or currency-reading machines to determine the value of each bill before filing it away using the system of their choice. This means that no matter how organized they are, blind Americans still have to trust sighted people or machines each time they receive change for their purchases or each time they receive cash from their customers. Nor does this help blind or partially sighted tourists.

By contrast, other major currencies, such as the pound sterling and euro, feature notes of differing sizes: the size of the note increases with the denomination and are printed in different colors. This is useful not only for the vision-impaired; they nearly eliminate the risk that, for example, someone might fail to notice a high-value note among low-value ones. Tourists also frequently encounter difficulties with U.S. money, as they are less familiar with the design cues that distinguish the various denominations.

Multiple currency sizes were considered for U.S. currency, but makers of vending machines and change machines successfully argued that implementing such a wide range of sizes would greatly increase the cost and complexity of such machines. Similar arguments were unsuccessfully made in Europe prior to the introduction of multiple note sizes.

Alongside the contrasting colors and increasing sizes, many other countries' currencies contain tactile features missing from U.S. banknotes to assist the blind. For example, Canadian banknotes have a series of raised dots (not Braille) in the upper right corner to indicate denomination. Mexican peso banknotes also have raised patterns of dashed lines.

On November 28, 2006, U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled that the American bills gave an undue burden to the blind and denied them "meaningful access" to the U.S. currency system.

Ruling on a lawsuit filed in 2002 by the American Council of the Blind, Judge Robertson accepted the plaintiff's argument that current practice violates Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. (Ruling as PDF file) The Treasury is appealing the decision. The judge has ordered the Treasury Department to begin working on a redesign within 30 days.

The plaintiff's attorney was quoted as saying "It's just frankly unfair that blind people should have to rely on the good faith of people they have never met in knowing whether they've been given the correct change."

Government attorneys estimated that the cost of such a change ranges from $75 million in equipment upgrades and $9 million annual expenses for punching holes in bills to $178 million in one-time charges and $50 million annual expenses for printing bills of varying sizes.

On May 20, 2008, in a 2-to-1 decision, the U.S. Court of District Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the earlier ruling, pointing out that the cost estimates were inflated and that the burdens on blind and visually impaired currency users had not been adequately addressed.

8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. The SI prefix for 1000⁸ is yotta (Y), and for its reciprocal yocto (y). It is the root of two other numbers: eighteen (eight and ten) and eighty (eight tens). Linguistically, it is derived from Middle English eighte.

8 is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, and 4. It is twice 4 or four times 2. Eight is a power of two, being 2³ (two cubed), and is the first number of the form p³. It has an aliquot sum of 7 in the 4 member aliquot sequence (8,7,1,0) being the first member of 7-aliquot tree. It is symbolized by the Arabic numeral (figure) 8.

All powers of 2 ;(2^x), have an aliquot sum of one less than themselves.

Eight is the first number to be the aliquot sum of two numbers other than itself; the discrete biprime 10, and the square number 49.

8 is the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents 3 bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet.

The number 8 is a Fibonacci number, being 3 plus 5. The next Fibonacci number is 13. 8 is the only Fibonacci number that is a perfect cube.^[1]

8 and 9 form a Ruth-Aaron pair under the second definition in which repeated prime factors are counted as often as they occur.

A polygon with eight sides is an octagon. Figurate numbers representing octagons (including eight) are called octagonal numbers. A polyhedron with eight faces is an octahedron. A cuboctahedron has as faces six equal squares and eight equal regular triangles.

Sphenic numbers always have exactly eight divisors.

8 is the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra.

The lowest dimensional even unimodular lattice is the 8-dimensional E₈ lattice. Even positive definite unimodular lattice exist only in dimensions divisible by 8.

A figure 8 is the common name of a geometric shape, often used in the context of sports, such as skating. Figure-eight turns of a rope or cable around a cleat, pin, or bitt are used to belay something.

As of 2008, there are only eight known Stern primes.Physics

• In nuclear physics, the second magic number.


• In particle physics, the eightfold way is used to classify sub-atomic particles.


• In statistical mechanics, the eight-vertex model has 8 possible configurations of arrows at each vertex.

[edit] Astronomy

• Messier object M8, a magnitude 5.0 nebula in the constellation of Sagittarius.


• The New General Catalogue object NGC 8, a double star in the constellation Pegasus.


• The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on 2579 BCE March 7 and ended on 1281 BCE April 26. The duration of Saros series 8 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 solar eclipses.


• The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on 2512 BCE July 27 and ended on 961 BCE February 13. The duration of Saros series 7 was 1550.6 years, and it contained 87 lunar eclipses.


• As of 2006, in our solar system, eight of the bodies orbiting the Sun are considered to be planets.

[edit] Chemistry

• The atomic number of oxygen.


• The number of allotropes of carbon.


• The most stable allotrope of a sulfur molecule is made of eight sulfur atoms arranged in a rhombic form.


• The maximum number of electrons that can occupy a valence shell.


• The red pigment Lycopene consits of eight isoprene units.

[edit] Geology

• A disphenoid crystal is bounded by eight scalene triangles arranged in pairs. A ditetragonal prism in the tetragonal crystal system has eight similar faces whose alternate interfacial angles only are equal.

[edit] Biology

• All spiders, and more generally all arachnids, have eight legs. Orb-weaver spiders of the cosmopolitan family Areneidae have eight similar eyes.


• The octopus and its cephalopod relatives in genus Argonauta have eight arms (tentacles).


• Compound coelenterates of the subclass or order Alcyonaria have polyps with eight-branched tentacles and eight septa.


• Sea anemones of genus Edwardsia have eight mesenteries.


• Animals of phylum Ctenophora swim by means of eight meridional bands of transverse ciliated plates, each plate representing a row of large modified cilia.


• The eight-spotted forester (genus Alypia, family Zygaenidae) is a diurnal moth having black wings with brilliant white spots.


• The ascus in fungi of the class Ascomycetes, following nuclear fusion, bears within it typically eight ascospores.


• Herbs of genus Coreopsis (tickseed) have showy flower heads with involucral bracts in two distinct series of eight each.


• Timothy Leary identified a hierarchy of eight levels of consciousness.


• In human adult dentition there are eight teeth in each quadrant. The eighth tooth is the so-called the wisdom tooth.


• There are eight cervical nerves on each side in man and most mammals.

[edit] Architecture and engineering

• Various types of buildings are usually eight-sided (octagonal), such as single-roomed gazebos and multi-roomed pagodas (descended from stupas; see religion section below).


• Eight caulicoles rise out of the leafage in a Corinthian capital, ending in leaves that support the volutes.

[edit] In religion

Buddhism

• The Dharmachakra, a Buddhist symbol, has eight spokes. The Buddha's principal teaching -- the Four Noble Truths -- ramifies as the Noble Eightfold Path. In Mahayana Buddhism, the branches of the Eightfold Path are embodied by the Eight Great Bodhisattvas (Manjushri, Vajrapani, Avalokiteshvara, Maitreya, Kshitigarbha, Nivaranavishkambhi, Akashagarbha, and Samantabhadra). These are later (controversially) associated with the Eight Consciousnesses according to the Yogachara school of thought: consciousness in the five senses, thought-consciousness, self-consciousness and unconsciousness-'consciousness' (alaya-vijñana). The 'irreversible' state of enlightenment, at which point a Bodhisattva goes on 'autopilot', is the Eight Ground or bhÅ«mi. In general, 'eight' seems to be an auspicious number for Buddhists, e.g., the 'eight auspicious symbols' (the jewel-encrusted parasol; the goldfish (always shown as a pair, e.g., the glyph of Pisces); the self-replenishing amphora; the white kamala lotus-flower; the white conch; the eternal (Celtic-style, infinitely looping) knot; the banner of imperial victory; the eight-spoked wheel that guides the ship of state, or that symbolizes the Buddha's teaching). Similarly, Buddha's birthday falls on the 8th day of the 4th month of the Chinese calendar.

Judeo-Christianity

• The Jewish religious rite of brit milah is held on a baby boy's eighth day of life


• Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kislev


• Shemini Atzeret (Hebrew: "Eighth Day of Assembly") is a one-day Jewish holiday immediately following the seven-day holiday of Sukkot


• Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that humans are responsible for their actions by the age of 8. Before that age, children lack sufficient knowledge to commit sin and are therefore exempt from judgment for their actions.


• In Christianity, it is allegoric to:
  
  
  
  • what is beyond time (because the number 7 refers to the days of the week which repeat themselves),
  
  
  • and is the number of Beatitudes.
  
  
  
  


• In Islam, It is the number of Angels carrying The Holy Throne of Allah in heavens.

Other

• The Eight Immortals are Chinese deities


• In Neopaganism, there are eight Sabbats, festivals, seasons, or spokes in the Wheel of the Year.


• In Hinduism it's the number of wealth , abundance. The Goddess Lakshmi has eightfold forms. There are eight nidhis - seats of wealth. Also, there are eight Guardians of the directions.

[edit] In superstition and divination

• If each of the classical elements is assigned a cosmic projection, the resulting number (8) represents them.

[edit] As a lucky or unlucky number

• Eight (åA?«; accounting æA?A?; pinyin bÄA?) is considered a lucky number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word "prosper" or "wealth" (çA?¼(T) åA?A?(S); Pinyin: fÄA?).


• In numerology, 8 is the number of building, and in some theories, also the number of destruction.

[edit] In astrology

• In Astrology, Scorpio is the 8th astrological sign of the Zodiac


• In the middle ages, 8 was the number of "unmoving" stars in the sky, and symbolized the perfectioning of incoming planetary energy

[edit] In music and dance

• A note played for one-eighth the duration of a whole note is called an eighth note, or quaver


• An octave, the interval between two notes with the same letter name (where one has double the frequency of the other), is so called because there are eight notes between the two on a standard major or minor diatonic scale, including the notes themselves and without chromatic deviation. The ecclesiastical modes are ascending diatonic musical scales of eight notes or tones comprising an octave.


• There are eight notes in the octatonic scale.


• There are eight musicians in a double quartet or an octet. Both terms may also refer to a musical composition for eight voices or instruments.


• The lowest stop on a pipe-organ is the eight-foot stop, which is approximately eight feet in length.


• Caledonians is a square dance for eight, resembling the quadrille.


• Albums with the number eight in their title include 8 by the Swedish band Arvingarna and The Meaning of 8 by Minnesota indie rock band Cloud Cult


• Dream Theater's eighth album Octavarium contains many different references to the number 8, including the number of songs and various aspects of the music and cover artwork


• "Eight maids a-milking" is the gift on the eighth day of Christmas in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"


• The 8-track cartridge is a musical recording format


• "#8" is the stagename of Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor


• "Too Many Eights" is a song by Athens, Georgia's Supercluster.


• Eight Seconds, a Canadian musical group popular in the 1980s with their most notable song "Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)"


• "Eight Days a Week" is a #1 single for the music group The Beatles.

[edit] In sports and other games

In football, the number 8 has historically been the number of the Central Midfielder. Similarly in baseball, in its numbering system used to record defensive plays, eight represents the center fielder's position. In rugby union, the only position without a proper name is the Number 8, a forward position.

In rowing an "eight" refers to a sweep-oar racing boat with a crew of eight rowers plus a coxswain.

In the 2008 Games of the XXIX Olympiad, the official opening was on 08/08/08 (in the dd/mm/yy format) at 8:08:08 p.m. local time in Beijing, China.

Eight ball pool billiards is played with a cue ball and 15 numbered balls, the black ball numbered 8 being the middle and most important one, as the winner is the player or side that legally pockets it after first pocketing its numerical group of 7 object balls. (For other meanings see Eight ball (disambiguation)).

Balklines divide a billiards table into eight outside compartments or divisions called balks. In balkline billiards the table also has eight anchor spaces.

In chess, each side has eight pawns and the board is made of 64 squares arranged in an eight by eight lattice. The eight queens puzzle is a challenge to arrange eight queens on the board so that none can capture any of the others.

• In the game of eights or crazy eights, each successive player must play a card either of the same suit or of the same rank as that played by the preceding player, or may play an eight and call for any suit. The object is to get rid of all one's cards first.

• In poker, a "dead man's hand" contains two pairs of either aces and eights or jacks and eights.

The throw of eight in craps is called (in rhyming slang) an eighter from Decatur.

It is the retired jersey number of Baseball Hall of Fame players Cal Ripken, Jr., Joe Morgan, Willie Stargell, Carl Yastrzemski, and Yogi Berra.

It is the retired jersey number of NHL player Cam Neely.

 In technology

• Many (mostly historic) computer architectures are eight-bit, among them the Nintendo Entertainment System


• A byte is eight bits


• On most phones, the 8 key is associated with the letters T, U, and V, but on the BlackBerry it is the key for B , N, and X.


• An eight may refer to an eight-cylinder engine or automobile. A V8 engine is an internal combustion engine with eight cylinders configured in two banks (rows) of four forming a "V" when seen from the end.


• A figure eight is a type of knot frequently used by climbers.


• In measurement


• In liquid measurement (US customary units), there are eight fluid ounces in a cup, eight pints in a gallon and eight tablespoonfuls in a gill.


• There are eight furlongs in a mile.


• The clove, an old English unit of weight, was equal to eight pounds when measuring cheese.


• An eight may be an article of clothing of the eighth size.
  
  
  
  • The ordinal adjective is octaval or octavary.
  
  
  • The distributive adjective is octonary.
  
  
  • Eight babies delivered in one birth are called octuplets. The first set of eight surviving babies, the Chukwu octuplets, were born in 1998
  
  
  • October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar; currently August is the eighth month
  
  
  • A double quatrefoil has eight foils used as the cadency mark of a ninth son.
  
  
  • A duke's coronet, worn by a British or Irish duke, has eight conventional strawberry leaves upon the rim of the circlet.
  
  
  • Eight extra facets are sometimes added around the culet at the lower pyramid of a brilliant diamond.
  
  
  • I-8 is the designation of the US interstate highway that runs from San Diego, California to Casa Grande, Arizona
  
  
  • Eight is the number of categories the VALS system uses to classify consumer groups, and the number of categories used by Fallon-McElligott's system for teen marketing
  
  
  • War of the Eight Princes, a war in Chinese history
  
  
  • "88" is the abbreviated terminology used by the Aryan Brotherhood for the Nazi salute, "Heil Hitler" — "H" being the eighth letter of the alphabet, twice
  
  
  • The silver piece of eight was coined in the Spanish Empire and moved trade around the world. Examples include the Carolus dollar, cob and cut. A doubloon was worth 8 gold escudos or 16 pieces of eight.
  
  
  • Eight elementary grades are included in the eight-four plan of school organization (along with four secondary grades).
  
  
  • 8 is the official number of the Bishop James Madison Society, a secret society at the College of William and Mary.
  
  
  • There are Eight Principles of Yong in Chinese calligraphy
  
  
  • 8 is one of The Numbers - 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 - featured in Lost.
  
  
  • In Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, dialing an 8-chevron address will open a wormhole to another galaxy.
  
  
  • In Battlestar Galactica, Number Eight is a Cylon portrayed by Grace Park.
  
  
  • 8vo is shorthand for "octavo", a book size.
  
  
  • The Eight - Eight American painters who exhibited together only once in 1908 in New York City. They joined this exhibition to oppose traditions upheld by the National Academy and help advance modernism in the United States. Five of the eight painters were associated with the Ashcan School: Robert Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), William Glackens (1870-1938), John Sloan (1871-1951), and Everett Shinn (1876-1953), along with Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), and Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928).
  
  
  • Astadiggajas is the collective title given to the eight telugu poets in the court of the emperor Sri Krishnadevaraya who ruled the Vijayanagara empire from 1509 until his death in 1529.
  
  
  • A stop sign has eight sides.
  
  
  
  

In foods

• There is a brand of chocolates filled with peppermint-flavoured cream called "After Eight", referring to the time 8 p.m.


• There are eight vegetables in V8 juice


• In cooking recipes, there are approximately 8 pinches to a teaspoon

In literature

• Eights may refer to octosyllabic, usually iambic, lines of verse.


• The drott-kvaett, an Old Icelandic verse, consisted of a stanza of eight regular lines.


• In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, eight is a holy number and is considered taboo. Eight is not safe to be said by wizards on the Discworld and is the number of Bel-Shamharoth. Also, there are eight days in a Disc week and eight colours in a Disc spectrum, the eighth one being Octarine


• Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark has 8 "fits" (cantos), which is noted in the full name "The Hunting of the Snark - An Agony, in Eight Fits


• 8 apparitions appear to Macbeth in Act 4 scene 1 of Shakespeare's Macbeth as representations of the 8 descendants of Banquo

[edit] In slang

• An "eighth" is a common measurement of marijuana, meaning an eighth of an ounce.^[3] It is also a common unit of sale for psilocybin mushrooms.^[4] Also, an eighth of an ounce of cocaine is commonly referred to as an "8-ball."^[5]


• Referring to the shape of the numeral, eight was represented in bingo slang, before political correctness, as "One Fat Lady". Eighty-eight was "Two Fat Ladies"


• The numeral "8" is sometimes used in writing to represent the syllable "ate", as in writing "H8" for "hate", or "congratul8ions" for "congratulations". Avril Lavigne's song "Sk8er Boi" uses this convention in the title. Often found on vanity plates


• "Section 8" is common U.S. slang for "crazy", based on the U.S. military's Section 8 discharge for mentally unfit personnel


• The Housing Choice Voucher Program, operated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, is commonly referred to as the Section 8 program, as this was the original section of the Act which instituted the program


• In Colombia and Venezuela, "volverse un ocho" (meaning to tie oneself in a figure 8) refers to getting in trouble or contradicting one's self.


• In China, '8' is used in chat speak as a term for parting. This is due to the closeness in pronunciation of '8' (bÄA?) and the English word 'bye'.


• Eight is symbolic for lesbian sexual relations.

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