Hehu by Foxymoron

The digit eight is the most common number within pi, with four the second most common. Interestingly, or boringly dependent on your view of maths, the numbers 2, 4 and 8 are the only ones that occur more than 10% of the time. Only slightly, mind you, as there are 100,000,791,469 eights in the first trillion digits of pi.

The Hehu, or Ogdoad, is in the dictionary as a set of eight things. Considered to have come into creation before the world did, the Ogdoad consists of four couples—eight individual deities—who balance one another and the nature of the cosmos.  Each pair correlated with one of the primary elements of the universe in the Egyptian belief system, i.e., water, air, light, and time. 

Eight-card suits in bridge are certainly not the most common, but they are more frequent than nine-card suits. Voids are even more common of course. Three voids - and three eight-card suits - on a single hand is very rare, but it occurred in the SIMs this Tuesday

In our room East overcalled 4H over 1D, and I had little choice but to bid 4S. North felt that he could not move on, but East added one more for the road and South tried again with 5S. North was now happy to have a second bite at the cherry and added a sixth. Six Spades could not be beaten as three hearts could be ruffed in dummy. The origin of the phrase is 19th Century, and apple was later replaced by cherry for no particular reason.

And "one more for the road", comes from Frank Sinatra:

We're drinkin', my friend

To the end of a brief episode

Make it one for my baby

And one more for the road

In this room, a club lead would have defeated 6D, but naturally enough East tried to cash the ace of hearts. Now the diamond suit is interesting. A singleton ace is no good to you, so you need to find a singleton queen, and, mirabile dictu, there she is. Ian Macleay made the right play to bring home his thin slam.