I'm on vacation with my family near Port Clintin, OH and have been reading the Toledo Blade newspaper which along with the Cleveland Plain Dealer are the closest geographic news sources in "hard copy" print. I enjoyed this article by the Toldeo Blade's science writer, Jenni Laidman, yesterday and thought I'd share it. If you look back at 6-6-6 you will see a related post by Liberalpastor.
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A Devil of a Wrong Number
All this talk about 777 this Saturday -- July 7, 2007 -- got me thinking about Satan and his number, 666. Turns out, somebody is in big trouble, because there is now big confusion about what Satan's number really is, and he hasn't been getting his calls.
OK, remember the best damn radio show on the planet? Radio Lab? Well, I was listening to some past shows, including one called Detective Stories, and it talked about research into an ancient Egyptian garbage dump. Teams of scholars in Oxford, England, are sifting through this old trash and uncovering some surprising things, including new sayings by Jesus, and ancient porn. (The two items are not related.)
But my favorite finding was a bit from the book of Revelations where the Number of the Beast was revealed to be not 666 but 616. One typo and Satan's whole realm is disconnected.
I immediately thought, Grand Rapids, Mich., the Beast lives in Grand Rapids, which now, you know, makes sense... Jerry Ford, Amway, The Beast. All clustered in the 616 area code.
Now now. Of course I don't think that really. But I do wonder what the consequence is of all those spells and Satanic rituals based on the wrong number. I imagine this has created quite a problem for operators in the underworld. (Not like New Jersey, I mean the real underworld.) Even Satan is not immune from the plague of the misprint.
"I'm sorry, 666 has been disconnected. Please check your number and try again."
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