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2006-06-06
Happy H-E-Double Hockeysticks Day!
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#19  You are Kurora's mother, mom? I am impressed -- you must both be very proud of one another. :-D
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-06 21:11  

#18  Hey, wait a minute: I was in just in Hell last summer - but it was on Grand Cayman Island. What the hell is going on?
Posted by: xbalanke   2006-06-06 20:55  

#17  I'd heard that numbers were ascribed to letters and that "name of the beast" was the reference. Nero some have pondered. Cranky Romans probably.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-06-06 20:25  

#16  Thru Deacon, thru 2 Egg. It's still a named place, but I don't think they have a PO anymore.

Posted by: 6   2006-06-06 15:23  

#15  The flap over today's date would be funny if it didn't remind me just how scripturally illiterate America has become. The number of the beast is a sign, not a date; it has nothing to do with the calendar.

The years in the Gregorian Calendar are based on a medieval ecclesiastic's miscalculation of the year of Christ's birth. Going by history, including the death of Herod the Great, the calendar is off by at least six years. And when Pope Gregory did get the calendar in order, he didn't use Arabic numerals!

Today is worth remembering for a different reason: DDay, 62nd anniversary. My son, who sometimes posts here as Korora, and #3 daughter mark Memorial Day every year by watching The Longest Day.
Posted by: mom   2006-06-06 14:38  

#14  So, 6, you've been to Two Egg?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-06-06 14:13  

#13  If you're born today and your parents named you Damien, you have my sympathies.
Posted by: Mike   2006-06-06 14:10  

#12  I'm guessing a lot of birth citifications will round up or down to preserve a lifetime of annoying questions and superstition.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-06-06 14:06  

#11  A bit of trivia.
The fear of the number 666 is called Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Posted by: tipper   2006-06-06 13:25  

#10  It's all an Engima, wrapped in a Riddle being marinated in a Two Egg sauce.
Posted by: 6   2006-06-06 13:19  

#9  I've driven through George, Washington.

Speaking of towns named Hell, think High Plains Drifter.
Posted by: DoDo   2006-06-06 12:47  

#8  I once went to Time, Pennsylvania, with a couple of buddies on a train-photographing expedition. It was the place in Pennsylvania where time stood still.
Posted by: Mike   2006-06-06 12:23  

#7  My favorite is Peculiar, Missouri. Town motto: Where the odds are with you
Posted by: Inspector Clueso   2006-06-06 11:52  

#6  Damn, can't make it to either Michigan or Norway. I'll just have to settle for some devils' food cake, and freaking out the neighbors with my little demon horns from my Halloween costume.
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-06-06 10:28  

#5  There's a place out west called Purgatory. That has to be the kewlest name for a town.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-06-06 10:21  

#4  Hell, Michigan? I thought it was called "Detroit."
Posted by: Mike   2006-06-06 08:12  

#3  I have a Norwegian friend who came over here from Hell, Norway. It's just above the Artic Circle.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-06-06 07:36  

#2  I heard a spot for the local radio station:

Hi there! This is [DJ One]...
...and [DJ Two]!
And tomorrow, we're going to Hell!

There's going to call up Hell, Michigan and talk to some guy who owns -- er, something...hotel I think -- and ask him what's going on there. I bet they ask him if Hell has frozen over.

I wondered what the hell that was about. Now I the hell know.
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2006-06-06 00:22  

#1  I feel sorry for all the babies born today.
Posted by: Glese Glimp6249   2006-06-06 00:07  

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