Wow. I can see the rationale, but I'd hate to be the one making that decision. I'd much prefer for any people I might kill to be healthy and richly deserving of the dirt nap.

Happy Birthday, Billytea and Polter-Cow!

In the "who's best to protect me" discussion, remember that should the assailant be a vampire the hockey players are far more likely to have wooden weapons and skates that can be used to decapitate.

I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean.

I think what I mean is "life" in Hebrew? That people wear charms of around their necks? There's a number connected to that.

Or am I just crazy again?

I vote crazy.

13 is the representation of ... hai? How do you spell that? in English?

chaim? Life? Is that what you mean, Jesse?

The usual transliteration is "chai," but the number is 18, not 13. (Signed, She Whose Mother Likes Giving Hannukah Gift Certificates In Multiples Of 18.)

chaim

-im denotes the plural possessive. Chaim = "our life/lives" (roughly)

[eta: And NO THANK YOU for that earworm.]

I vote crazy.

Did anyone ask you? NO THEY DID NOT.

Chai is one way of spelling the word that means life. The number that corresponds to that is 18.

Suddenly I thought of another worst song canidate.

Gets a pass for being part of one of the funniest murder sequences in movie history.

I think what I mean is "life" in Hebrew?

Oh, now I get it! The word is pretty much the way you wrote it, "hai" or "khai" or "chai" or whatever way is the correct one to write that sound that doesn't exist in English.

The number associated with it is 18.

In Hebrew, each letter is assined a number. The first is, of course, 1, the second 2 and so forth. The tenth gets 10, but the one after that gets 20 (not 11. For 11 we use 10+1). And so forth, until after 90 comes 100 and continue with jumps of 100. This way the last letter gets 400. Every number can now be pronounced as a combination of letters, and every word can have the numerical value of its letters added to the 'value' of the word.

The word for "life" or "alive", to be more accurate, has 2 letters. One that equals 8 and another that equals 10. So the sum is 18.

And especially for Cindy: the sum of the letters that combine the word "good" in Hebrew ('tov') is? Yup, 17 (9+6+2).

The usual transliteration is "chai," but the number is 18, not 13.

Phew! That's exactly what I meant! I got confused when I went to type "chai" because of the tea.

(Signed, She Whose Mother Likes Giving Hannukah Gift Certificates In Multiples Of 18.)

And the reason I (used to) know about this is people who make charitable donations in multiples of 18.