Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Numerology

The Number of the Beast is 666, by William Blake

Those of you into numerology might find this interesting: The count for visitors to ye olde blogge yesterday was ...

666

Wonder if somebody is trying to tell me something ?

9 comments:

Christopher Wayne said...

616?

Wait a minute, all those heavy metal bands are wrong! Say it ain't so!

Bobbe Edmonds said...

667: The neighbor of the Beast.

Steve Perry said...

Yeah. And 626, the guy who lives across the street from the beast ...

I have a buddy who wrote an illustrated book, back when Bantam's HQ was still 666 Fifth Avenue. The artist was very religious, and when they went to visit Bantam, they took him in via a side door so he wouldn't freak out when he saw the number.

Lot of folks are superstitious about something. No thirteenth floors in hotel or office buildings, black cats, broken mirrors, walking under a ladder, hat on the bed, spilled salt over the shoulder and don't speak the Devil's name out loud because that draws his attention ...

jks9199 said...

Well... there was a time when I lived in apartment 13 in building 12813...

But I thought the number of the beast was 202-456-1414.

Steve Perry said...

Used to be his number, but I think he has a 214 area code now. Warmer down there, he's right at home.

Brad said...

I recall A Heinlein book way back were he wrote that the original translation was actually 6 to the 6th power to the 6th power.

That's an awfully damn big number. Could you see Iron Maiden trying to use that as a chorus?

Steve Perry said...

How many guys in Iron Maiden? Four? Six? If you count the roadies and assume ten fingers and ten toes each, anything past six cubed is gonna be beyond them ...

Ed said...

The State gave me an ID with 666 in it - bastards! I'm still looking for the "bummer of a birthmark".

...the guy living across the street is Death - lawns never green.

Brad said...

Oh, and the guy who my ex-wife left me for? Nickname in High School was "Satan" and he and the ex had a daughter born on June 6th, 1996. And yes, in this case the apple did not fall far from the tree.