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2006-06-06

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I feel sorry for all the babies born today.

Posted by Glese Glimp6249 2006-06-06 00:07|| 2006-06-06 00:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 00:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I have a Norwegian friend who came over here from Hell, Norway. It's just above the Artic Circle.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-06-06 07:36|| 2006-06-06 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Hell, Michigan? I thought it was called "Detroit."

Posted by Mike 2006-06-06 08:12|| 2006-06-06 08:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 10:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-06 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 My favorite is Peculiar, Missouri. Town motto: Where the odds are with you

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-06-06 11:52|| 2006-06-06 11:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 12:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I've driven through George, Washington.

Speaking of towns named Hell, think High Plains Drifter.

Posted by DoDo 2006-06-06 12:47|| 2006-06-06 12:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 13:19|| Front Page Top

#11 A bit of trivia.
The fear of the number 666 is called Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

Posted by tipper 2006-06-06 13:25|| 2006-06-06 13:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 14:06|| Front Page Top

#13 If you're born today and your parents named you Damien, you have my sympathies.

Posted by Mike 2006-06-06 14:10|| 2006-06-06 14:10|| Front Page Top

#14 So, 6, you've been to Two Egg?

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-06-06 14:13|| 2006-06-06 14:13|| Front Page Top

#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 ">mom 2006-06-06 14:38|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-06-06 14:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 15:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 20:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 20:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-06-06 21:11|| Front Page Top

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