LOL!
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Originally posted by JT:
<STRONG>I've never quite understood what the whole significance of the "let it be known that the demon's number is 666" was. I think the apostles just chose what they figured was a higher number than anyone could count to. =P</STRONG>
My favorite explanation is that it's a reference to the guard bars in UPC codes.
If you look at the UPC code on anything you buy, you'll see a pair of thin lines in the middle and on either side. These lines correspond to a "6" in the code, when that six appears on the right side of the code. Since codes may be read in either direction, they designed left and right differently. A 6 to the left of the middle looks different than a 6 to the right of the middle. But, that matches the mark that appears on the "right" hand. The way a scanner reads the code, there is extra "white space" necessary to construct a six, but if you visually look at it, you wouldn't notice the difference. Also interesting is the name of the original creator of the system, George Joseph Laurer: His first, middle and last names all have six letters in them.
No additional speculation is needed.
Five minutes on google suggests that the translation error you're referring to is a copy that turned up showing the number 616 instead of 666, and that the connection to Nero is primarily a Catholic view, and it's done by transliterating "Nero Caesar" into Hebrew, and ignoring one of the Jewish numerology rules.
Or are you referring to something else?
(I think my version was more synchronous. Certainly more entertaining. :P )
[ April 17, 2007: Message edited by: Narushima ]
Or both...
DUN DUN DUN.........
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What...don't you smooth the walls of your barracks? That's not necessary either. :P
how else are you supposed to put the fortifications in that let you fire that nice row of ballistas out...