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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."[Telecom] Louisiana town changing its 666 phone prefix
Dec 31, 2007
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Only in America. Sigh.
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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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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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