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What in the devil's name attracted me to this article, I can't say. But when I heard that 666 was to be replaced, something possessed me and I swear I felt like I was on fire.
Operator: ”Hello, how may I direct your call?”
Caller: “Can you connect me to my granny who lives in Reeves Louisiana at area code 666,”
Operator: “Sorry to interrupt you dear, but that number has been changed to 749”
Caller: “But I don’t understand, I’ve been calling my granny at 666 since 1960. What in the devil’s name has made them do it?
Operator: “Well, my dear, apparently the town's major Scott Walker and a couple of the State's senators lobbied Tel Century and the state Public Service Commission complaining that the area code number 666 had been giving the town a black eye and that the towns' folk no longer wished to be associated with the stigma attached to it.
Caller: “You don’t say. I didn't realize they were so superstitious.”
Operator: “Oh, indeed, they must be and Mr. Walker even went on to say that people from Reeves are “good Christian folk” and said that the decision from Tel Century was a “divine intervention!”
Caller; “A divine intervention? They have a direct link to God, do they? Well that's a switch!”
Personally, I'll stick with 666. 749 just doesn't seem to have the same ring to it.
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Good heavens I sure am glad that they decided to change such a beastly number as 666.
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@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
Good heavens I sure am glad that they decided to change such a beastly number as 666.
Whoa...Picasso, you made a funny! LOL! "beastly...666"!
LOL!
My daughter's SS# has a string of three 6s in the middle of it...so it can't be such a bad number, eh? Look at divine...she's fine! LOLOL!
BTW...welcome back to writing again, divine! -
@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
Whoa...Picasso, you made a funny! LOL! "beastly...666"!
LOL!
My daughter's SS# has a string of three 6s in the middle of it...so it can't be such a bad number, eh? Look at divine...she's fine! LOLOL!
BTW...welcome back to writing again, divine!
Thanks. Seeems like your daughter and I have something in common. Me? Fine? My granny always referred to me as the Devil's child.. LOL -
lol too funny. I wouldn't want to be associated with Nero either... guy was goofy.
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@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
Good heavens I sure am glad that they decided to change such a beastly number as 666.
Yep, now what will that town do for entertainment. -
I would have been really upset if my area code was 666. If I ever got a license plate with that on it I would ask for a new one. I wouldn't buy a house that had that for an address, and I have shown a few and thought "wow, I can't believe the house number doesn't give you the creeps" in my head as my clients walked through.
Guess I suffer from a severe case of hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - the fear of the # 666.
Divine - you are too funny!
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@ Pamela Jean (GotTheScoop)
I would have been really upset if my area code was 666. If I ever got a license plate with that on it I would ask for a new one. I wouldn't buy a house that had that for an address, and I have shown a few and thought "wow, I can't believe the house number doesn't give you the creeps" in my head as my clients walked through.
Guess I suffer from a severe case of hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - the fear of the # 666.
Divine - you are too funny!
I think there's a cure for hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, or at least medication. LOL -
@ 666divine
I think there's a cure for hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, or at least medication. LOL
I believe you are right, but the side effects are a real bitch! ROFL!! The smell of sulfer burning apparently is really distasteful and has a tendency to put a real damper on your social life................ -
@ Pamela Jean (GotTheScoop)
I believe you are right, but the side effects are a real bitch! ROFL!! The smell of sulfer burning apparently is really distasteful and has a tendency to put a real damper on your social life................
Here's a test for you. Would you turn down $666,666,666.? -
@ 666divine
Here's a test for you. Would you turn down $666,666,666.?
No, it's just the series of three - 666 - that bothers me. I even weird out when I buy groceries and the total is $6.66 - course with the rising food costs that doesn't happen much anymore...... -
@ Pamela Jean (GotTheScoop)
No, it's just the series of three - 666 - that bothers me. I even weird out when I buy groceries and the total is $6.66 - course with the rising food costs that doesn't happen much anymore......
Gee, Hon. Would that number ever keep you from calling let's say a dear friend or your sister, perhaps? -
@ 666divine
Gee, Hon. Would that number ever keep you from calling let's say a dear friend or your sister, perhaps?
No, I just would have to put on a garlic necklace when I dialed the phone! LOL!!! -
@ Pamela Jean (GotTheScoop)
No, I just would have to put on a garlic necklace when I dialed the phone! LOL!!!
Gee girl. A garlic necklace would cost you $6.66! -
@ 666divine
Gee girl. A garlic necklace would cost you $6.66!
I'd be sure to throw in an extra clove or two to push it to the $7.00 mark. hahahaha................. -
@ Pamela Jean (GotTheScoop)
I'd be sure to throw in an extra clove or two to push it to the $7.00 mark. hahahaha.................
Sorry, dear. But in order for the garlic necklace to work, you need to use 6 pieces of garlic, each containing 6 pieces of cloves and in order for it to be effective, you would have to wear it for 6 hours! Ha! Ha! -
Personally, I'll stick with 666. 749 just doesn't seem to have the same ring to it. What a delightful hilariously ridiculous story.
It reminds me of how puzzled I was when I arrived in Toronto and saw that so many appartment buildings don't have a 13th floor. Superstition really does strange things to people. -
@ Bart B. Van Bockstaele
What a delightful hilariously ridiculous story.
It reminds me of how puzzled I was when I arrived in Toronto and saw that so many appartment buildings don't have a 13th floor. Superstition really does strange things to people.
Strange thing is that such folk think they should be taken seriously. -
@ 666divine
Strange thing is that such folk think they should be taken seriously. That's the problem with faith isn't it? It is uncritical, unquestioning belief. They "know" they are right because they know they are right because they just know they are right. -
@ Bart B. Van Bockstaele
That's the problem with faith isn't it? It is uncritical, unquestioning belief. They "know" they are right because they know they are right because they just know they are right.
They know they are right because they know they can't be wrong because being wrong means they can't possibly be right, therefore they know they are right about not being wrong, but we aren't wrong about knowing they're wrong but they just don't know it. -
@ 666divine
They know they are right because they know they can't be wrong because being wrong means they can't possibly be right, therefore they know they are right about not being wrong, but we aren't wrong about knowing they're wrong but they just don't know it. LOL! Well said! A sentence that should have been incorporated in "Yes, (Prime) Minister", arguably the best comedy series of all time. -
@ 666divine
Thanks. Seeems like your daughter and I have something in common. Me? Fine? My granny always referred to me as the Devil's child.. LOL
My mother once referred to me as the anti-Christ. I smiled and gently informed her that while I was not indeed the anti-Christ, he is one of my minions...
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@ Mr Garibaldi
My mother once referred to me as the anti-Christ. I smiled and gently informed her that while I was not indeed the anti-Christ, he is one of my minions...
;)
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