Re: Yokozuna Quiz

[Da Kine Sumo E-zine & Web site from Kawika <dakinesumo@hotmail.com>]

Economic, sure, but does that mean that economics outweighs superstitions???

If so, that is a first for me!


From: jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp (Doreen Simmons)
>To: sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
>Subject: Re: Yokozuna Quiz
>Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:46:37 +0900
>
>At 08:23 99.6.2 +0000, Da Kine Sumo E-zine & Web site from Kawika wrote:
> >I've heard that this unluck 4 business is slowly changing, along with
> >unlucky even numbers.  For example, it used to be that you couldn't give
> >20,000 yen for a wedding because 2 was bad luck, but today you can.  See
> >things even change in Japan
>
>This is simple economics. Traditionally the money given as a wedding
>present goes up in odd numbers, \10,000, \30,000, then \50,000 (that's a
>yen sign, in case it comes out funny on your screen). Low-paid youngsters
>used to be able to give ten thousand at a colleague's wedding, but when the
>cost of weddings went up, the jump from ten to thirty was too big, and
>consensus emerged that twenty would have to do.
>
>Doreen in sumoland
>
>   The greatest obstacle to learning something new
>                is the assumption that you already know it.
>
>


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