More Beastly Stuff
13 August 2007 by Naomi
From James Randi’s Swift (the Amazing Randy!) newsletter:
Reader Frank Womble has sent in these interesting variations on last weeks item at Another Favorite Myth Exploded, showing that we missed the boat on that one. Says Frank:
666 = number of the Beast
665 = older brother of the Beast
660 = approximate number of the Beast
66600 = zip code of the Beast
$665.95 = retail price of the Beast
DCLXVI = Roman numeral of the Beast
666.0000 = Number of the High-Precision Beast
0.666 = Number of the Millibeast
/666 = Beast Common Denominator
-666½ = Imaginary number of the Beast
6.66e3 = Floating point Beast
1010011010 = Binary number of the Beast
6, uh . . . what was that number again? = Number of the Blonde Beast
1-666 = Area code of the Beast
666 mph = Speed limit of the Beast
$699.30 = Price of the Beast plus 5% state sales tax
$769.95 = Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul
$656.66 = Walmart price of the Beast
$646.66 = Next week’s Walmart price of the Beast
Phillips 666 = Gasoline of the Beast
Route 666 = Way of the Beast
666 F = Oven temperature for roast Beast
352 C– Oven temperature for roast Beast in Europe
666(k) = Retirement plan of the Beast
666 mg = Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast
6.66% = 5-yr CD interest rate at 1st Beast of Hell Nat. Bank, $666 min. deposit
$666/hr = Beast’s lawyer’s billing rate
Lotus 6-6-6 = Spreadsheet of the Beast
Word 6.66 = Word Processor of the Beast
i66686 = CPU of the Beast
665.9997856 = Number of the Beast on a Pentium
666i = BMW of the Beast
DSM-666 (revised) = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast
1232 Octal, Apt. 29A = Beast’s hexed address
668 = Next-door neighbor of the Beast
333 = The semi-ChristNote: some of the above are only approximations, and should not be used in religious invocations or other such woo-woo applications…
(This image is to be tattooed on your hand or forehead. It facilitates processing when you reach Hell. No long lines. No waiting. You’ll be instantly transported to the “lake of fire”!)
Did Frank miss any other opportunities to e-numerate the Beast?
UPDATE: If you can’t think of anything to add, consider this an open thread...
13 August 2007, on 12:40 pm
I needed a breather before I tackled the Pentagon, Steven Baldwin, OSU (Operation Straight Up), “care packages” that include baby-wipes and LeftBehind: EternalForces, and fundies that exploit the vacuum left from the VA’s odious ignorance on PTSD.
Just what we need: Iraq “war” veterans being targeted for evangelizing – they’re already too authoritarian, as it is.
13 August 2007, on 12:45 pm
How about:
13 August 2007, on 12:52 pm
Along with the news that Rove has resigned, effective August 31…
…there is video of a Cheney “statue” being hauled down, ala Saddam Hussein, in Cheney’s current hometown, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Can’t you just feel the “luvvvvvv”!
13 August 2007, on 1:22 pm
How fitting that Cheney comes from a hole.
13 August 2007, on 1:27 pm
Since this is considered an Open Thread:
I purchased some WWII materiel books from one of the used sellers on Amazon. One of the books arrived with a “Thanks and God bless” written on the receipt. That pissed me off enough to give the seller a lower rating than I would have. But then, upon opening the book, there was a xian pamphlet inside the front cover entitled “How to become a Christian.”
Well, you can imagine what that did to me. I immediately signed on and gave the lowest possible rating, and noted the xian missives. I stated that I don’t appreciate being preached to. The book was also in worse condition than stated by the seller, so I said it was in terrible condition (pages were falling out).
The seller responded with a full refund stating only that they were sorry I felt the book was in terrible condition. No apology for proselytizing.
And the punch line, the seller’s amazon name is …
Wait for it…
MWNUTTER
13 August 2007, on 1:35 pm
Rev, that’s priceless! Especially since you got your money back…
And “MWNUTTER”? WTF? 
They don’t know when to let up, do they?
13 August 2007, on 1:41 pm
Why does Gord hate teachers? It looks like he doesn’t want them to go into space.
That is not a riddle! Or, maybe it is…
13 August 2007, on 3:16 pm
I looked at their rating history, and one other person recently complained of the same thing, but not as vociferously as I, lol.
Beyond that the person had excellent ratings. So, either they only started this crap recently, or people don’t care enough to say something.
13 August 2007, on 4:07 pm
999 = Witness relocation name for the Beast.
6.66 Kb = File size of the Beast.
2092.3007 = Circumference of the Beast.
25.8069758011 = Sqaure Root of the Beast.
Oh, and:
Of course, they were. They had to have something more interesting and educational to read than their Babble.
13 August 2007, on 4:11 pm
Berlzebub: and you should know! I love the Witness relocation name for the Beast. Very good!
However, the Beast is huge, so shouldn’t that be 6.66Gb? Or even Tb?
13 August 2007, on 4:11 pm
That list is a gem!
13 August 2007, on 4:35 pm
I’ve ridden it. It’s not all that. However, it still gets more visitors per year than the Fairy Tale Mausoleum just a few miles away.
Anyway, you know how the Xians like to blow things out of proportion. “It’s a miracle he wasn’t killed!” When it was actually a little thing called a seatbelt, and other such exagerations.
13 August 2007, on 4:46 pm
666*9/11 What you’ll hear in any Rudy Giuliani speech
sick-sick-sick Mark Foley’s instant messages
666 HPInfernal combustion engine
13 August 2007, on 5:04 pm
666/999 The beast having a party with himself.
13 August 2007, on 5:04 pm
I know which one would win if I were given the option of the wholly babble or the Tiger I in Action
13 August 2007, on 5:40 pm
WTF? MWNUTTER! My question is that, how did they come up with the number 666 for being possibly evil? Why are these numbers controlling our lives? Big shit, a 3 digit number. What is wrong with the number 2 or 5 or any other number.
Hey, everyone, let me know of any experiments that you want me to try out. I live in the Bible Belt and it is easy to experiments. The college that I am going to is disgusting. I want to transfer now but I cannot even so this will be my first year in college.
It is disgusting because they want us to be nice to everyone (basically, grab ass games)and hugging and all that crap. The problem is if one student stays isolated, they will kick him off the campus. That is so fucking stupid. Plus, the school pushes Christianity. So Raindogzilla, what college are you going to? I could use a witty friend!
13 August 2007, on 5:46 pm
5C5 + A1= 666. Man, so many possibilities! All thats to Hexadecimal.
13 August 2007, on 5:51 pm
That sucks, Myron; hang in there and transfer as soon as you get a chance.
Love the Beast list! Not very creative myself right now…:-(
13 August 2007, on 6:14 pm
From The Pizza Deliveryman’s Book of the Dead:
668- the Neighbor of the Beast
667- Across the Street from the Beast
766- Wrong Block, Asshole!.
420- Break Time.
13 August 2007, on 6:57 pm
I wonder where the beast shops at, K-mart? Oh that’s right, there is no beast. I just wish a lot of people will just wake the hell up, and think well my decision might hurt this person but it is not with it benefits.
Nothing can be completely evil or good. Sorry for a lack of better word but nothing complex (that I know of) is made up of just one thing. I think its more than a delusion, but that is just me. I have not seen a troll for awhile, so maybe they are taking the hint?
Like I always say, “Someone’s happiness is built onto someone else’s unhappiness.”
13 August 2007, on 7:53 pm
Ha! Infernal combustion engine! Good one, VL!
And RDZ, I hadn’t heard of the book. Did you buy in on Amazon, too?
Myron, you and I know that there is no Beast. That’s why we laugh at them, and mock the worst of their delusions. Like Revelation.
13 August 2007, on 8:11 pm
Hey!
Are you mocking me?
I mentioned on another site why I chose this number as a login. However, to clarify, it was due to a Registered Nurse at the VA hospital refusing to record my weight as 166.6 lbs even though the scales registered that number three times in a row. And here I had thought that people in the medical field were rational.
Ha!
13 August 2007, on 9:05 pm
sex-sex-sex the devil’s Latin name
13 August 2007, on 10:54 pm
666: I was given the full run-down on her jeebus belief while a captive in an examining room by a nurse-practioner! I really liked her – until then.
The chill-effect is that to look her in the eye and say, I’m an atheist, might mean less conscientious care. Or so I fear…
14 August 2007, on 2:07 am
666
Of all the sciences, medical science seems to hold the least amount of rational thinking. They would like to think of themselves as such but they are not. They have their own woo before surgery, They have their own woo while recording data. ETC
Also you may have asked for someone less swayed by voodoo and superstition than your nurse. You could have told her or him that you would prefer someone less superstitious. Make an issue of it. They do.
14 August 2007, on 7:45 am
Jimmer, I think your words, “rational thinking” explains most of it. My wife does embroidery, and one of the really beautiful red flosses has the number 666. For a while she had a hard time getting it because at one craft store the manager wouldn’t carry it because it was sinful, and at another store certain clerks refused to even touch it and some wouldn’t ring it up for customers. She told my wife that someone would take it out of the bin and toss it in the trash.
My wife tells me that some people won’t complete a sale of $6.66. They’ll either buy something else or not buy at all.
14 August 2007, on 8:41 am
“My wife tells me that some people won’t complete a sale of $6.66. They’ll either buy something else or not buy at all.”
When I worked in retail (oh so long ago), I encountered this nonsense all the time.
14 August 2007, on 9:05 am
Myron, try this.
Get yourself a Tshirt made that says, in big letters. “I’m an atheist. Swear to god!”
14 August 2007, on 9:16 am
Following on from 333 – the semi-Christ, what about:
1.5-1.5-1.5 : the demi-semi-Christ
0.75-0.75-0.75 : the hemi-demi-semi-Christ
6
6 the rythmn of the Beast
14 August 2007, on 11:05 am
777- Oneupsmanship w/the Beast.
15.857- The Beast Divided By 42.
667- The Beast in Allen Iverson’s Shoes.
714- What Beast?
888- The Beast Binges.
666- The Glu Glux Glan.
999- The Beast Has Fallen and It Can’t Get Up!
222- One of the Beast’s Three ’70’s TV Shows.
664- And a Four from the Russian Judge.
90210- Involved somehow.
333- The Beast, Divorced.
606- The Beast by Edvard Munch.
14 August 2007, on 11:36 am
556- the beast phone number
$666.66- price of first Apple computer
The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.- fear of the beast (But, seriously this is a real phobia name)
699- Beast on Steroids
996- Beast is wasted on sugary Kool-Aide
What the hell is a “Glu Glux Glan.” It sounds like something from a reject comic book.
And Revenant, I might take you up on your offer.
14 August 2007, on 12:38 pm
Lol, Myron, I wasn’t offering, you were asking for suggestions, that leaped to mind.
14 August 2007, on 3:13 pm
Anyone else have any more suggestion
. I was thinking of wearing a Flying Spaghetti Monster costume around campus.
14 August 2007, on 7:35 pm
One of my favorites is 333: Eric, the half-a-Beast.
16 August 2007, on 10:35 pm
HTTP error code 666 – Beast not found…
On amore serious note, The beast is just another religios nut-job myth but some barcodes do use the ‘6′ character as a divider. There are evil people out there.
Yes, they do shop at wall-mart (for the staff discount).
17 August 2007, on 1:29 pm
673 = Prime Beast
999 = Aussie Beast
616 = The Real Beast
_6_ = Neutered Beast
666v2 = New & Improved Beast
AOL = Beast Online
$66.60 = Tithing Beast