The Number Of The Beast-

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Years ago, I worked in retail sales, and frequently I would ring up an item that required me to give $6.66 in change, or less frequently, costs $6.66.

Now, TNOTB doesn’t bother me at all, but it amused me to see the discomfort of some customers when that number popped up.(I live in the middle of the Bible Belt.)Frequently, they would give me $6.67 or leave a penny in change so they wouldn’t have to deal with TNOTB.

Another encounter with 666 got me to wondering- do any of you have any interesting stories about people and TNOTB?

If it bothers you, what do you do when it pops up in your life?

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(505) 821-65 . . . .
oh. Sorry. You said “beast,” I saw “ex-girlfriend.”
Carry on.

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My wife is semi-fundamentalist and my in-laws put the “fun” back into fundamentalist dogma (w/ apologies to the simpsons)

We moved not long ago, and I took great pleasure in telling them my new phone number: (xxx) 666-xxxx

I did not request this, it just worked out that way. Ahhh sweet sweet number of the beast. The IL’s don’t call me much anymore.

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[Moderator Hat ON]

This looks more MPSIMSy than a debate. Off you go.

[Moderator Hat OFF]

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I had a store clerk get pretty twitchy when she was writing down my license for a check approval. My birthdate, you see, is 6-6-61.

[maxwell smart]Missed it by THAT much…[/maxwell smart]

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I’ve had it come up as the amount of change due before. The guy at the register said something like, “Your change is… is… ah, you can see it”. He gave me the proper amount, though.

And don’t forget when Ron & Nancy Reagan moved to (I think) Bel Aire, the house address was 666. They petitioned the post office to change it to 668, I think.

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In a recent Public TV, or History Channel, or Discovery Channel, or some other pseudointellectual exercise, it was reported that numerology and number codes were a big deal in the Imperial Roman period, and that using the 1st Century Greek alphabet the number 666 translates as Nero, that is, Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, 37 - 68 AD, Emperor 54 -68 AD. Nero was a highly unpleasant man who scapegoated the primitive Christians for many of his troubles, thus originating the expression “Lions - 9, Christians - 0.” The writer of the Book of Revelations could well have had a case of the jaws with Nero but chose to make a secret number reference to him for reasons of personal safety. It makes sense to me.

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According to what I’ve read, Nero becomes 666 in ancient Hebrew.

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My zip code ends is xx666, and when I lived here about 10 years back, a record store manager threatened to fire me if I didn’t answer in the negative to the question, “Are you a devil worshiper or a satanist or one of thost freaks?” Needing the job entirely too much at that point, I fought the urge to flip the devil sign and start wearing pentagrams and told the truth. What really surprised me was the fact that this isn’t the Bible Belt, it’s New Jersey.

Idiots are everywhere.

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666 - The number of the beast

667 - neighbor of the beast

660 - Approximate number of the Beast

DCLXVI - Roman numeral of the Beast

666.0000 - Number of the High Precision Beast

0.666 - Number of the Millibeast

/ 666 - Beast Common Denominator

666 ^ (-1) - Imaginary number of the Beast

1010011010 - Binary of the Beast

6, uh… what was that number again? - Number of the Blonde Beast

1-666 - Area code of the Beast

00666 - Zip code of the Beast

1-900-666-0666: Live Beasts! One-on-one pacts! Call Now!
Only $6.66/minute. Over 18 only please.

$665.95 - Retail price of the Beast

$699.25 - Price of the Beast plus 5% state sales tax

$769.95 - Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul

$656.66 - Walmart price of the Beast

$646.66 - Next week’s Walmart price of the Beast

Phillips 666 - Gasoline of the Beast

Route 666 - Way of the Beast

666 F - Oven temperature for roast Beast

666k - Retirement plan of the Beast

666 mg - Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast

6.66 % - 5 year CD interest rate at First Beast of Hell National
Bank, $666 minimum deposit.

DSM-666 (revised) - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast

Lotus 6-6-6 - Spreadsheet of the Beast

Word 6.66 - Word Processor of the Beast

i66686 - CPU of the Beast

666i - BMW of the Beast

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Hmmm. In most towns, wouldn’t this one be across the street from the beast? I’m thinking 668 would be his neighbour.

The hull number of the old USS Hawkbill (great boat, by most accounts) was SSN-666. There was a persistent rumour around Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific, to the effect that this was the only boat in the fleet to which one could refuse orders on religious grounds.

The rumor was BS, of course. In the absence of a similarly qualified individual who was willing to swap, one took the orders one got.

One guy, a couple of classes ahead of me, found this out the hard way. And lo, there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, for he was sore afflicted with a serious dose of Fundamentalism (and a good bit of plain ol’ ignorance into the bargain, IMHO). He finally found somebody willing to trade with him, though.

I was pretty much committed to LA class boats, myself.

Ah, just thought of something else. IIRC, the SSN-668 was the USS Devilfish. Too bad they couldn’t swap names with the Hawkbill. :smiley:

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Lockfist, that was wonderful!

Hmmmm…an attorney I know has a telephone number ending in 666, and practices in Teaneck, New Jersey with a zipcode of 07666. Never thought at it before.

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Theres nothign evil about the number; its the mark they will put on your hand thats the bad thing.
I once bought something and it came to $3.34.
I gave them a $10.
My change was $6.66.
Big whoop.

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Oh man. We headbangers live for moments like this. We collect ‘666’ stories and trade 'em like others do fishing tales.

Just last week I had two ‘666’ episodes while buying new undies. In one store, a pack of three was priced at $6.66. In the other store I got three for six dollars each.

My Mormon friend had a $6.66 total at Miami Subs in Raleigh a couple of years ago. The cashier asked him if he’d like to add anything to the order so the total would change. Shhyeah, right. He said no, he thought it was pretty cool and was going to keep the receipt (he did so for a few months).

And the best one of all - we took another friend to Krispy Kreme for her birthday and her total was $6.66 - how cool is that? ‘666’ on your birthday - at KRISPY KREME!

And a Metal magazine in England used to sell mailorder t-shirts that read: “667- One louder than Satan!”

Infernally yours,
R-n-R
\m/

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Love the analogy ! I was too embarrased to say it on my own, but now that you came along… Whenever I get a receipt for something that either cost $6.66 or produced change = $6.66 - I always send the reciept to my buddy Gary in Florida with no other information. He always knows its me and we both always get a good laugh out of it.

I was told the truth by someone who lied - Out of Hand, Entombed

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I always liked Robert Heinlein’s treatment of TNOTB in his book of the same name, by hypothesizing it’s 6, raised to its sixth power and that in turn raised to ITS sixth power.

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I was wondering if anyone would notice that I wrote “The Number Of The Beast-” in the thread title the same way that Heinlein wanted his book title to read. My little tribute to him.

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The local DMV in my county destroys any regular tags with 666 (I asked for one specifically to see what they did with them).

A friend in another county was offered a tag with 666. The clerk noticed his hesitancy and ansked if he wanted the next number in the series. He said “Sure”, expecting 669 or 70. He got 697. Evidently he was not the first to turn down the tag.

A former co-worker actually had 666 on his tag. Said it didn’t bother him; he was Jewish, didn’t believe in ‘that nonsense about numbers’, and actually liked the attention.

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There’s a route 666 in Forest county, Pennsylvania. The funny thing about it, though, is they’ve also got signs up naming it after some poor guy; it’s the “David Zeitwicker Memorial Highway” or something like that. Always made me wonder what he’d done to deserve such a prestigious honor.

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Oh, I forgot until someone mentioned vehicles - there is a schoolbus in Greensboro that is #666. And it belongs to the public school system too, not some slighty twisted private citizen. I’ve been behind it at the stoplight at Holden and Spring Garden about three times (Mental note to self: keep a camera in the car come fall). What a great album cover that would make!
Guess it’s not an issue if there’s genuine separation of church and state, eh? It’s still a hoot, though.

P.S. Hails, Lockfist.