Do You Like Schnaps Numbers?

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The Guideline Rules tell us not to post “personal milestones such as birthdays, anniversaries, etc.” As far as I know. The ‘etc.’ includes the amount of money we earn here and/or the number of posts we’ve written. So I won’t tell you the exact number of my posts, but I feel like telling you that I’ve reached what Germans call a Schnaps number which means ‘liquor number' in English. It’s high time you learnt about this. What is a Schnaps (for inexplicable reasons the German word ‘Schnaps’ is written ‘schnapps’ in English) number? It is a multi-digit number, which is represented exclusively by identical digits. Germans find Schnaps numbers (I’ll stick to the German term) funny and consider them good-luck charms. They like having number plates with identical numbers for their cars. The number favoured by a certain kind of male driver is ‘six‘. The reason is that ‘six‘ is ‘sechs‘ in German which is pronounced in the same way as ‘sex‘. What a feeling to cruise through the centre of a town with a number plate showing 666! People married like crazy on 8th August, 1988 (8/8/88) as they had also done on 7th July, 1977 (7/7/77) and so on and so forth. Imagine the joy when someone celebrated their 99th birthday on 9/9/99! If the cash-register in the supermarket shows that someone has to pay, say, 11,11 Euro, you can be sure that the cashier and the client smile and say something about this funny coincidence. You may want to know what numbers with several digits have to do with Schnaps. I‘ve found an explanation on the net which sounds rather convincing, namely, that Schnaps is responsible for seeing Schnaps numbers. (When something goes round like this, we say that the cat is biting itself in the tail). The real meaning behind Schnaps and Schnaps numbers probably stems from alcohol, in this case too much of same. We might see double or even triple numbers, when our alcohol intake has been too high. Hence, Schnaps numbers.