[comp.dcom.telecom] 555's 666's

dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin) (08/12/90)

We return you to the daze of volume 10, issue 555, where Dave Levenson
typed:

| I changed my mind about 800 service from MCI.  Our best-selling
| software product is the MoneyRoom(tm).  They were offering us the
| number 1-800-MONEYRM, but unfortunately, that's 800-666-3976, and you
| never know what sort of nut will run up our 800 bill over that prefix!

You had no worries there.  Just advertise the number as 1-800-MONEYRM
and the fundie fanatics won't ever realize that it translates to
something beginning with three sixes.  After all, you think more than
a couple of the extreme nutcases who would call you satanic for having
that number actually would order computer software?

Later in that issue, il Moderatore commented to Donald Kimberlin thus:

| [Moderator's Note: If he wanted to get 800 service, I guess MCI would
| be out of the question. After all, 800-666-POPE would be a dead
| giveaway! :)  PT]

One could always ask MCI for a number on a different prefix.

When I first heard about "beasting" people (using the lengths of the
words in Reagan's name was really a cheap substitute, as was the
forcible introduction of a factor of six when it was done to Henry
Kissinger and Ken Johnson), it took me a few minutes to get 666 from
Jesus's name.  So I guess that at the tender age of nineteen I managed
to disprove Christianity and expose it as Satanism, right?

For the record, I was naked at the time I did it, because I was taking
a shower.  Yup, didn't even need pencil or paper.


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