The number 666

Very nasty.

All explained here

As mentioned afore it's also inbraided into the Pope's Mitre (in Gold)

Hi Paul,

I had to respond to your message as it made me laugh! I am very sceptical about anything superstitious and could even be labelled a cynic, but I think that is by the less-educated! I know we have to be politically correct these days as people get very offended whenever their superstitious grounds are trod on. Youre right, people are too oversensitive as listen (well read!) what happened to me and my interpretation:

I was driving home the other day and on two occasions I stopped at the traffic lights and the car in front of me had the number 666 on the number plate. This was on two separate occasions on the drive home - two different cars! Now a superstitious person may start conjuring stories up about the Devil, but I think human beings' consciousness is selective in what it makes significant. No doubt on several other occasions Ive driven from A to B and have pulled up behind a car with the same number on the number plate. I just didnt register this as folk-lore tells me 666 to me more significant and I thus remember those occasion better. Anyone who is superstitious then has a bias in their interpretation of their life afterwards by subconsciously 'looking' for evidence to support their 666 hypothesis.

This naivety frustrates me!!!

(Im on my soap box here!) The same thing applies to horror scopes. I had a laugh earlier this term as a couple of girls in my class were about to read each others horoscopes in this magazine as opposed to doing their work (I work as a teacher). Of course I took the magazine off them and told them that Id read their horoscopes if they told me their star signs. They did so and I humoured them by reading out a different star-sign to what they said. I then laughed quietly to myself as they were both amazed at how accurate the readings were! I made no comment.

I then threw the magazine in the bin and told the girls to get back to their work.

Cheers

Jon

Marvellous

I came into contact with not one but two black cats today! Isn't this supposed to be double-jeopardy or something?

Anyway I drove 250 miles today and came back with not a scratch...so much for that!

Cheers,

(another) Jon

Basically Jon, it depends on how uneducated and stupid one is, and wether they come from the left or right so I'm told by experts with nothing better to do. Being a lover of cats anyway, especially black ones; (which maybe you are too ?) it would personally make my day.

Fritz Von Don't ring 666 the fire brigade will turn up topsey turvey, innit ?

Someone told me a ‘666’story a while back that amused me. I haven’t tried to verify the facts (why let them get in the way of a good story, after all?) so I’m not claiming complete accuracy.

Under the international telephone system, the country code for the USA is “1”. This is then followed by a three-digit area code. Some nearby countries, rather than having their own country code, use the US country code and a separate area code (for example, Bermuda uses “441”).

Canada also uses the US country code – with the area code “668”. Some claim this is because they are “the neighbour of the beast”.

I thought it was clever.

Dan

Interesting....but

I live in Southwestern Ontario. Area code is 519. Just for a laugh I looked up 668 and it is not a valid area code.

Country code 1 however is correct.

regards,

michael

Paul

There's bound to be a death metaller on the staff who will actually give you money to have that serial number.

quote:

Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
Basically Jon, it depends on how uneducated and stupid one is, and wether they come from the left or right so I'm told by experts with nothing better to do. Being a lover of cats anyway, especially black ones; (which maybe you are too ?) it would personally make my day.

Fritzy,

I went to visit someone in Cheltenham today and his son's cat was around, had never seen her before yet she came and sat on my lap. On arriving home tonight my neighbour's cat, who had been locked outside her house as she was out, came into my house as I opened the door! I gently carried the cat out of the house though, as the reason I don't keep cats, although I would like to, is that I have discovered I am allergict to cat hair. Of course I discovered this the hard way - when I lived at home we had two pet cats (sisters) and they lived for over 15 years!

Cheers,

Jon

PS: Just noticed that you posted in Hi-Fi Corner yesterday! My world is now, officially, turned upside down

I didn't know that you're a part time fireman Jon ?

Fritz Von Florence says goodnight, time for bed everybody Brrrrp


Pish I didn't know I'd posted there either ?

Oh that Hi Fi Corner ! Goodnight, I hear yer

mykel,

Like I said: never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Should have been a journalist, I guess ...

Dan

Well, I used to live at 666 Spadina. When we moved in, there were six dimples in the bedroom wall in the rough shape of a 6. Now my home phone number ends in 1666, while my work number is 6661. My cell number also has 666 within. I've owned two black cats, the first of which (fondly nicknamed "psycho kitty") jumped to his death from the 21st-floor balcony (at 666 Spadina). The current black cat (along with his gray brother) frequently like to dash back and forth in front of me, as I descend the stairs between floors.

Should I be concerned?

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Mike,

Chicago isn't that far from Chicago, and I'M VERY concerned.

I used to laugh at the 666 superstition (college graduation was 6/66), but with Bush, Cheney, Frist, DeLay, and the support they have drummed up for their effed up Christianity, I can't help wondering if predictions of the anti-christ are coming true....

Regards.

Phil

6+6+6=18 The first and eighth letter of the alphabet, A H = Adoplph Hitler,the number of his name,Whoooooooooo

Is that from the book of St Andrews?

The 6th letter in the Aramaic alphabet is "w", therefore...



Andrew

Many years ago my then employer used an internal email system provided by I.P.Sharp Associates and it went under the tirtle of "666 Mail" - only one person out of the many thousands using the system ever asked to have the name changed.

At my workplace 666 is the internal phone number for IT support...

At school someone demonstrated to me if you have A as a value of 6, B of 12, C of 18 etc. and assigned these values to the name of one of Northern Ireland's most notorious politicians (OK, it's Ian Paisley)it came to that number.
Cheers
Rich.

Two black cats live in our road, thats me fucked then (apparently)

Having lived on earth some 30 years I cannot recall ever anything unfortunate happening as a result of smashing a mirror or on friday the 13th.

"Touch wood" - eh, gazza??

Be careful with that router!

Superstitions, like religions, would die out, never to be rediscovered, if there was simply a break of one generation in passing the "information" on.

This assumes that no books are left.

Should we burn all the books?

It is said that the Porn film star Lexington Steel, bears the mark of the beast on his scalp as a birth mark, just as in the popular beast film The Omen.