Sorry… but a menorah has 9 branches, not 8. The central one often isn’t counted, as it’s the shamash, but there are 9 candles in a fully lit menorah. See?
It’s the difference between a Menorah and a Chanukiah. What most gentiles know is the 9 branched candelabrum.
Successful, shmucksessful! Folks like Larry the Cable Guy and Andrew Dice Clay are or were also successful, back in the day, but that doesn’t mean I want to claim them either, be they machers or just regular shlubs.
(Actually it doesn’t really matter, of course. I guess I’m like Scott Thompson’s character Buddy Cole, who once said: “I still don’t believe Liberace was gay. I just don’t want him to be!”)