[Ford Prefect]

Well it makes sense, I suppose. Nero wasn't a very nice man.

[Unknown Target]

[Ford Prefect]

God damn. It's too late at night for that.

[Nuke]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Well it makes sense, I suppose. Nero wasn't a very nice man.

so why did they name a cd writing package after him ?

[karajorma]

Cause he's famous for burning things.

[Clave]

6 + 6 + 6 = 18... not an unlucky number

6 + 1 + 6 = 13... hmm....

[BlackDove]

Clave solved it.

It ties in with the Friday the 13th movie of the crapass movies ever.

[Corsair]

Originally posted by Clave
6 + 6 + 6 = 18... not an unlucky number

6 + 1 + 6 = 13... hmm....

On the other hand, 18 = life in Judaism.

And Jews are bad people. So therefore it works?

[phreak]

Originally posted by Flipside
Iron Maiden are gonna be seriously pissed

What about Deströyer 666?

[Ford Prefect]

That makes sense, too. My life sucked when I was 13, and I'll bet that goes for a lot of us.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Nuke


so why did they name a cd writing package after him ?

Nemo: Burning Rom.

Add an 'e'.

[Unknown Target]

Don't you mean Nero: Burning Rom?

[Flipside]

The Nautilus comes with Nukes

[Clave]

Toast!

[kode]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Don't you mean Nero: Burning Rom?

I think he was aiming for Nero: burning Rome.

[aldo_14]

No, I was thinking of having fish & chips for dinner.....

[TrashMan]

There is no "number of the beast".
It's all a bunch of crap...

If you knew how that number came to be in the first place, you would drop from your chair from laughing...

current year 8at that time) - year when pope Pio X (well, some pope..can't remeber which one exactly) was born + number of ships in american fleet = 666...

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by kode


I think he was aiming for Nero: burning Rome.

He said "Nemo"

[Clave]

Lots of stuff about 666 and Nero here: http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/666.htm

[phreak]

An example of this spelling has apparently been recently discovered in one of the Dead Sea scrolls. If you use the same process, but without the added "n" the result is 616. Interestingly, some early manuscripts have 616 rather than 666, but even scholars such as Irenæus [A.D. 120-202] attribute the 616 to only a copyist error (Against Heresies: Book V Chapter XXX.), "this number [666] being found in all the most approved and ancient copies" [of the Apocalypse] and asserts that "men who saw John face to face bearing their testimony" [to it - 666].

There is a problem though with the above calculation. According to the rules of Jewish numerology, known as gematria, when the letter Nun appears a second time in a word, it is known as a "Final", and takes the value of 700.* So to be precise, NRWN QSR actually adds up to 1316 and not 666.

interesting