CHAT: THAT Number (Way off topic by now...) (Was: Re: Parallelism)

On 15 Jun 99, at 14:42, Ed Heil wrote:

> You think that's bad?  A friend of mine went to seminary and was
> assigned the student ID number 666.
>
> He ended up becoming a sociologist instead.
>
> John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > Well, 666 is a number that tends to be remembered.  :-)  But seriously,
> >
> > A church near me (Middle Collegiate; Dutch Reformed) has the phone
> > number +1 212 xxx 0666.  I've never had the nerve to ask them if
> > they realize the implications.
> >
It gets worse, my aunt used to live in a tiny village in (not too long
ago either) and her phone number was (code for village)-666, (BT
has re-orged the phone system several times since, but it still ends
xxx666), my Fathers Cell Phone is also xxxx-xxx666 AND a friend
of mines' Pager is 07666-xxxxxx.  A friends Car License plate is
xxx 666 x (IIRC), the default "permission mode" for various types of
files on many UNIX systems I've worked on (including the current)
is 666 (ok, that's base-8 not base-10), and in just a few days I'll
have been in my current department 666 days.  Woah, man, far out
and spooky ;-)

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Pb

Extra-large rebuttal .sig:

For those that asked, yes I did mean UC Berkeley, and I'm well
aware the original inventor of the other was basically Swiss.  One
was a convoluted typo (?heck I dunno), the other was about
centers of popularisation rather that origination.

You guys are the only bunch of people ever to correct me on either
point.  Well done :->