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From: lindley@ut-dillo.UUCP (John L. Templer)
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Subject: Re: Bedevilled Child (Offensive to Art Linkletter)
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 22:27:39 EST
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>> 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.

A co-worker here brought in a copy of an ad he found in Byte magazine.
The ad is for "THE WORD processor," the King James version of the Bible
on diskette.  Down at the bottom of the ad, refering to the user survey
card, it says "circle 666 on inquiry card."
-- 

~~ John L. Templer,  University of Texas at Austin
~~ {allegra,gatech,seismo!ut-sally,vortex}!ut-ngp!lindley

  Come out of the dark, elusive one; Nirvana, we adore you.