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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Bedevilled Child (Offensive to Art Linkletter)
Message-ID: <715@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 18:34:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 18:34:33 1985
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References: <7677@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
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Summary: 

In article <7677@ucla-cs.ARPA> campbell@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
>TRUE STORY:
>
>While dining in a Chinese restaurant the other night, a child
>sitting in the next booth asked his parents: "Is 666 the Devil's
>phone number?"

I don't know if this is still true (or ever was), but I heard many years ago 
that the satanic connotations of "666" precluded its use as a telephone
exchange in the Bible Belt.

AWR

P.S.:  OK, now a joke:

Q: How do you tell a cow chewing its cud from a teenybopper chewing gum?
A: By the intelligent expression on the face of the cow!