On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:52:26 +1300, Tarla
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:40:40 GMT, Raffi Balmanoukian
wrote:

in article , AKM at
wrote on 3/2/04 3:05 PM:

mtravelkay wrote:

15 years ago, while on a temp assignment in LA while working at IBM in
Austin. during the development of AIX/PS2 at Locus Software in the
Herbel Life building, I was staying at the Marriott LAX. One night a
bunch of us were coming back from dinner. In front of the hotel was a
body draped in a sheet. Apparently, someone jumped from the 14th floor,
presumably because there was no 13th floor.

If you correct for the American way of counting floors, would it be only
the 12th?



Aaah, I get you now. Yes, the 12th in the civilized world.

You're both mistaken. Here in NZ it's called the ground floor. But in
the US, it's called the 1st floor. Floors are numbered. Even the
basements are numbered b1, b2, b3 etc. I always get confused here and
say "I'm going to the 2nd floor." when I mean the first floor off the
ground...since most I've met here call the first floor, the ground
floor.
Tarla
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Tarla,

I haven't been following this thread too well. I remember Canada being
pretty much the same as the US and IIRC the UK. Is the 13th left
everywhere in the US and is it because of superstition? Silly question
I know but need an answer. :-D


Nelly.
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