Would you buy a house numbered 7

phoebe1989seb

fannyanna wrote: »

Whoah. That was uncalled for!

Thanks Fannyanna , but I'm not going to let it bother me.....what doesn't kill you makes you stronger as they say and DH and I are much stronger these days!

Off-topic, but I'm guessing I don't have much in common with Elvis.....except, and this is true......my grandfather (who died before I was born) died in a similar situation to 'the king' IYSWIM :eek:

elvis86

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Thanks Fannyanna , but I'm not going to let it bother me.....what doesn't kill you makes you stronger as they say and DH and I are much stronger these days!

Off-topic, but I'm guessing I don't have much in common with Elvis.....except, and this is true......my grandfather (who died before I was born) died in a similar situation to 'the king' IYSWIM :eek:

He died on the lavatory...?

elvis86

Regardless of how he died, the most important factor is obviously what number house he was in at the time? Was there a link to the number 8?:D

phoebe1989seb

elvis86 wrote: »

He died on the lavatory...?

Indeed he did

As far as I know my grandparents were living in a number 66 at the time (although I guess a 'number two' would have been more appropriate, lol!) So there was no number 8 connection, I'm afraid

The poor boy who found him seems to have been rather unlucky himself though as apparently a few years later he discovered his own father who had killed himself........maybe he was the inhabitant of number 8???

VfM4meplse

Pay no attention.

I can't beat Dirty Gerty from #30.


Gertrude Lawrence, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1930.

From an article in The Daily Mail:

Yes, it was a spectacle the star's daughter was never to forget. As Pamela Clatworthy opened the door of the Number One dressing room at New York's St James Theatre on an April afternoon in 1951, she encountered a scene that froze her in her tracks.

Her mother, the legendary musical star Gertrude Lawrence, was in flagrante.

Her oyster-pink hooped satin ball gown was over her head like an inverted circus tent. Burrowing beneath it with dedicated zeal was a man of whom Pamela could see only his bare feet and equally bare buttocks.

'When they noticed I was there, and he emerged, his head was as bald as his backside, and I realised it was Yul Brynner'.

That was the first intimation Pamela had that her mother was involved in a passionate affair with her co-star in the hit Broadway musical, The King And I, a married man 17 years Gertie's junior, who owed to her his ascent to stardom.

'It was a closely guarded secret,' says Pamela. So secret that it has eluded every biographer of Lawrence and Brynner.

'It makes me laugh when I keep hearing stories about my mother supposedly being a lesbian. She was the complete reverse. Her appetite for men verged on nymphomania.

elvis86

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Indeed he did

As far as I know my grandparents were living in a number 66 at the time (although I guess a 'number two' would have been more appropriate, lol!) So there was no number 8 connection, I'm afraid

I don't mean to alarm you, but;

number 66
6 x 6 = 36
36 = 3 & 6
3 + 6 = 9
6/6 = 1
9 - 1 = 8!!!:eek:
Spooky!:D

breadlinebetty

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

We lived in a number 7 for a while and you could say it was lucky 'cos our son was conceived there

However I have also had lots of experience of living in houses with number 8 connections. Here is a full list of all the houses I have lived in (including those which are not related to number 8!) -

1) my family home (only one we lived in from my birth to when I left home) was 216 (2x1+6=8)

2) my uni flat was number 8 (burgled twice within two years)

3) first flat bought with DH was number 7 (married DH and conceived our son whilst living there)

4) first house bought was number 53 (5+3=8) (scary neighbour thought by other neighbours to be a witch - I kid you not - tried to tell my fortune said '8' would feature prominently in my life - she wrote out my 'fortune' but I destroyed it without reading it)

5) next house we bought was number 8 (burgled once in two years)

6) next house we bought was number 8 (this was my dream house and we were going to stay forever but we had financial probs and DH tried to kill himself)

7) next house we bought was number 120 but it also had a name (no '8' connection, but we hated living there and consider it one of our biggest mistakes, house-wise)

8) our current house has no number but a name comprised of 8 letters (it is also my 8th house and supposedly our final and forever home)..........

Say you did 2-1+6=7 instead of 2x1+6=8 - who would you put the blame on then?:p

phill99

Oh what bloody rubbish. I do not believe that some one would start a post about the luck associated with house numbers. What !!!!!!. Next you will be asking what you should do because you passed someone on the stairs, saw the moon through glass and walked under a ladder.

Evidently you are not serious about home ownership.

breadlinebetty

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Indeed he did

As far as I know my grandparents were living in a number 66 at the time (although I guess a 'number two' would have been more appropriate, lol!) So there was no number 8 connection, I'm afraid

The poor boy who found him seems to have been rather unlucky himself though as apparently a few years later he discovered his own father who had killed himself........maybe he was the inhabitant of number 8???

Many heart attacks occur when vulnerable people (usually unfit or/and elderly men) are sitting straining on the loo. Yes, constipation can bring on a heart attack - that's why it's so important to eat your prunes!

If you don't believe me have a google......

So your grandfather's connection to Elvis is no more connected than I am to Queen Elizabeth, due to the fact we both pass wind!

phoebe1989seb

breadlinebetty wrote: »

Many heart attacks occur when vulnerable people (usually unfit or/and elderly men) are sitting straining on the loo. Yes, constipation can bring on a heart attack - that's why it's so important to eat your prunes!

If you don't believe me have a google......

So your grandfather's connection to Elvis is no more connected than I am to Queen Elizabeth, due to the fact we both pass wind!

Whilst I'm sure you are correct, at the time of my grandfather's premature demise astride the loo he was neither elderly nor unfit, being a sporty type in his early fifties......but I guess he was a man

Regarding my reference to 'Elvis', I meant the one who commented on my post, not the one some like to call 'the king'!

And whilst I joined in the spirit of this thread in the spirit in which I believed it was intended (and don't 'blame' anyone for anything that has happened in my life), I wouldn't say I was particularly superstitious having recently offered and exchanged on the 13th without fear of nasty repercussions :eek: