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[Telecom] Louisiana town changing its 666 phone prefix

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"REEVES, La. After decades of living with what Mayor Scott Walker calls a stigma, residents of this southwest Louisiana village are getting a new telephone exchange, one without the biblical connotations attached to their current 666."

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John Mayson
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Only in America. Sigh.

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Sam Spade

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They have Bibles in other countries too...

The number 666 apparently was originally a coded way of referring to Nero (the Hitler of his time). See:

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mc

John Mayson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@john-maysons-ibook-g4.local:

I would be in favor of putting all telemarketers on 666....

:)

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Paul

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