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From: bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: devil's phone number
Message-ID: <1097@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 13:04:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 13:04:13 1985
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In article <715@grkermi.UUCP> andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) writes:
>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.

The IRS office in Manchester New Hampster is in the 666 exchange.

obligatory joke:

q. What did the JAP say when her boyfriend blew in her ear?
a. Thanks for the refill!
-- 
There once was a fellow named Moorehead,
Who had an affair with a warhead.
  His wife moved away
  The very next day--
She /was/ always kind of a sorehead.

andy beals - bandy@lll-crg.arpa - {seismo,ihnp4!sun,dual}!lll-crg!bandy