Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: bnrgate!bwdlh490.bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.uu.net (Henry Troup) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 666 and Ignorant People Message-ID: <10827@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Aug 90 14:24:18 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Henry Troup Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. Lines: 33 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 567, Message 11 of 11 In article <10727@accuvax.nwu.edu> mea@ihlpl.att.com (Mark E Anderson) writes: >myself ignorant but I would never accept a number with a 666 exchange >or any 3 sixes in a row. If I were to get one, I'd simply ask for >another number. I didn't even like it when my current number had 2 6s >in a row. >I don't consider myself that superstitious but a phone number is sort >of like a personal identification of existence. It doesn't hurt to >play it safe just in case. Well, my home number is 613-59 666 43 (unusual spacing to show the 666 in it. No one has ever mentioned it to me, and I've had it for eight years. But then, I don't think of the number as part of me, but part of Bell. (Canada) Shouldn't we really take this to alt.folklore.urban? Sort of folklore: in Toronto, there is a store called 'The Occult Shop', which deals in new age and neopagan stuff. They were for a while located at 664 Queen St. They wanted to get 666, but the shoe store wouldn't move. Really! I know the owners, somewhat. Disclaimer: Good Christians don't believe in Satan, numerology, or the IRS :^) Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions | 21 years in Canada... uunet!bnrgate!hwt%bwdlh490 HWT@BNR.CA 613-765-2337 | [Moderator's Note: This is another topic being closed at this time. We all had several laughs from it, but the telecom connection is gone. PAT]