The Beast Variations

[autographedcat]

Saw this this morning on rec.humor.funny.reruns. It made me grin.

$665.95	Retail price of the Beast
$699.25	Price of the Beast plus 5% sales tax
$769.95	Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul
$656.66	Walmart price of the Beast
6, uh... what's that number again?	Number of the Blonde Beast
00666	Zip code of the Beast
1-900-666-6666	Live Beasts! One-on-one pacts! Call Now! Only $6.66/minute. Over 18 only please.
Route 666	Highway of the Beast
666 F	Oven temperature for roast Beast
666k	Retirement plan of the Beast
6.66%	5 year CD interest rate at First Beast National Bank, $666 minimum deposit.
i66686	CPU of the Beast
666i	BMW of the Beast
DSM-666	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast
668	Next-door neighbor of the Beast

Comments

[janeg.livejournal.com]

How could you do this and not have Neighbour of the Beast as your current music?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I've always rather liked "vi vi vi -- Editor of the Beast", but of course there are lots of good ones at Nancy's place (check on her search function; there's NUMBER OF THE BEAST under Category).

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Except on exceptionally rare occasions, what I put in the Music field of my entries is what's actually playing at the moment. The thought did occur to me, though. :)

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Heh. I used to have the vi vi vi one as a .sig quote. :)

[poltr1]

There's rw-rw-rw-, the file protection scheme of the Beast.

And in case you don't already know, US route 666 got redesignated to US 491. :( Here's the Wikiedia entry.

[noghri.livejournal.com]

666 Zip code of the Beast
Shouldn't that be the area code of the beast?

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Nope. I just failed to notice when i used a spreadsheet to convert it to a table that it stripped the leading 0's. Fixed.

[weirdsister.livejournal.com]

2x4x666 .......the lumber of the Beast.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

6
 6
6

--The lumbar support of the Beast...

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, there's some evidence I've read recently that the number of the Beast isn't 666, but should be 616 instead. This amuses me greatly, since 666 is what has all the superstitions reaction, while the number 616 continues to be merrily applied to all manner of things.

http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/numero.htm

[madfilkentist]

There's rw-rw-rw-, the file protection scheme of the Beast.

Also known as the Access of Evil.

[mdlbear]

Been using that in my .sig for years.

LOL

[mdlbear]

That's good!

[demoneyes.livejournal.com]

6, uh... what's that number again? - Number of the Blonde Beast

aka the Dumber of the Beast ?

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

*groan* I love it! Well done!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

"I know -- we can ward off the beast by reciting the number BACKWARDS!!"

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

Or, according to one Heinlein book, 6^6^6 (six to the power of six to the power of six). Which *isn't* a number I trip over regularly.

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

333 - half a Beast is better than none
and
999 _ The Beast Down Under

GHR

[kshandra]

half a Beast is better than none

ITYM "Eric the half-a-Beast."

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

1010011010

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

SQRT(-443556) ... the imaginary Beast

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

29A

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Which he misparses. He expands it as
(6^6)^6 = 46,656^6 ~= 1.03144E+28
whereas (in this universe, at least) exponentiation groups right-to-left, as
6^(6^6) = 6^46,656
which ... um, has about 36,305 digits.

Hey, '6' and '^' are on the same key!

The book, of course, is The Number of the Beast.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Massachusetts my telephone number was [area code] 877-6666. My answering machine message was

"You have reached [area code] 877-6666. To leave a message for the $LASTNAMEs, wait for the beep. If you're trying to reach anyone else you have the Wrong Number of the Beast."

Our kosher butcher said that he had another customer whose phone number also ended in 6666. dunkelpig theorized that somebody at the phone company had said "That looks like a Jewish name; maybe these people won't come ranting back at us about the number of the beast."

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

"the number 616 continues to be merrily applied to all manner of things"

Such as the main Marvel Comics continuity (such as it is).

[demoneyes.livejournal.com]

"Er... so does anyone have a calculator?"

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you know this (you might, since you do read at least some comics), but in the Marvel multiverse of parallel Earths, the one on which most Marvel heroes live (the old one, not the Ultimate one) is designated Earth-616. Coincidence? I wonder...

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

My personal fave is 666A -- The Tenant of the Beast. (Bet s/he is NEVER late with the rent...!)

[kayshapero]

Amongst the traditional silly-reference auction bids of the LASFS are:

111 The Victorious Beast
222 The Ballet Beast
333 Half a Beast
444 The Golfer's Beast
555 Almost a beast
777 The Lucky Beast
888 The Gourmand Beast
999 The Negative Beast

Meanwhile, my daughter's Girl Scout Troop was supposed to be #666 but somebody upstream chickened out and it became #663. AKA The Scout Troop Across The Street And One Door Down From the Beast. :)

Telephone Exchanges of the Beast

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

201-666 Westwood, N.J.
202-666 Washington, D.C.
206-666 Seattle, Wash.
207-666 Bowdoinham, Me.
208-666 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
210-666 San Antonio, Tex.
212-666 New York, N.Y. (Upper Manhattan)
213-666 Los Angeles, Cal. (Downtown)
214-666 Dallas, Tex.
215-666 Morrisville, Pa.
217-666 Chrisman, Ill.
218-666 Cook, Minn.
248-666 White Lake, Mich.
251-666 Mobile, Ala.
253-666 Tacoma, Wash.
254-666 Waco, Tex.
276-666 Martinsville, Va.
281-666 Crosby, Tex.
301-666 Glenn Dale, Md.
302-666 Dover, Del.
303-666 Denver, Colo.
305-666 Miami, Fla.
306-666 Maple Creek, Sask.
310-666 Beverly Hills, Cal.
312-666 Chicago, Ill.
323-666 Los Angeles, Cal.
330-666 Montrose, Ohio
337-666 Reeves, La.
352-666 Weeki Wachee, Fla.
360-666 Battle Ground, Wash.
402-666 Morse Bluff, Neb.
403-666 Etzikom, Alb.
406-666 St. Xavier, Mont.
407-666 Orlando, Fla.
408-666 San Jose, Cal. (West San Jose)
410-666 Cockeysville, Md.
412-666 Monroeville, Pa.
415-666 San Francisco, Cal.
416-666 Toronto, Ont.
418-666 Quebec City, Que.
419-666 Toledo, Ohio
440-666 Cleveland, Ohio
443-666 Baltimore, Md.
450-666 Laval Est, Que.
469-666 Richardson, Tex.
470-666 Lithonia, Ga.
501-666 Little Rock, Ark.
502-666 Louisville, Ky.
503-666 Gresham, Or.
504-666 New Orleans, La.
505-666 Wagon Mound, N.M.
508-666 Sagamore Beach, Mass.
510-666 Berkeley, Cal.
516-666 Bay Shore, N.Y.
517-666 Owosso, Mich.
519-666 Ilderton, Ont.
530-666 Woodland, Cal.
561-666 Delray Beach, Fla.
562-666 Lakewood, Cal.
580-666 Rocky, Okla.
601-666 Jackson, Miss.
603-666 Manchester, N.H.
604-666 Vancouver, B.C.
605-666 Keystone, S.D.
606-666 Jackson, Ky.
608-666 Lyndon Station, Wis.
610-666 Norristown, Pa.
615-666 Lafayette, Tenn.
616-666 Grand Rapids, Mich.
617-666 Somerville, Mass.
619-666 San Diego, Cal.
626-666 Pasadena, Cal.
631-666 Brightwaters, N.Y.
660-666 Darlington, Mo.
661-666 Bakersfield, Cal.
678-666 Morrow, Ga.
702-666 Las Vegas, Nev.
703-666 Arlington, Va.
704-666 (No City Specified) North Carolina
705-666 Moonstone, Ont.
713-666 Houston, Tex.
714-666 Anaheim, Cal.
717-666 Lancaster, Pa.
718-666 New York, N.Y.
732-666 Monmouth Junction, N.J.
734-666 Livonia, Mich.
740-666 Ostrander, Ohio
757-666 Norfolk, Va.
760-666 Vista, Cal.
770-666 Atlanta, Ga.
785-666 Bunker Hill, Kan.
786-666 Miami, Fla.
801-666 (No City Specified) Utah
803-666 Shaw AFB, S.C.
812-666 Orleans, Ind.
815-666 Hickory Hills, Ill.
817-666 Roanoke, Tex.
819-666 Sanmaur, Que.
847-666 Arlington Heights, Ill.
860-666 Hartford, Conn.
863-666 Lakeland, Fla.
903-666 Jefferson, Tex.
904-666 Daytona Beach, Fla.
905-666 Whitby, Ont.
908-666 Jersey City, N.J.
914-666 Mount Kisco, N.Y.
917-666 Bayside (Queens), N.Y.
918-666 Wyandotte, Okla.
925-666 Brentwood, Cal.
937-666 East Liberty, Ohio
949-666 Trabuco, Cal.
972-666 Palmer, Tex.
973-666 Wayne, N.J.
978-666 Cambridge, Mass.
984-666 Raleigh, N.C.
989-666 Owosso, Mich.