16th February 2005, 11:26 PM
Shouldn't it be 6 sorrows? Generally 6 is the number of incompleteness and bad wrong things, and 7 is the number of perfection and good things.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)