FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for November 10, 2023

In the midst of the war

He offered us peace

He came like a lover

From out of the East

With the face of an angel

And the heart of a beast

His intentions were Six Sixty Six

(Larry Norman)

That kid has got too much time on his hands.

“666 is no longer alone

He’s getting out the marrow in your backbone

And the seven trumpets blowing sweet rock and roll

Gonna blow right down inside your soul

Pythagoras with the looking glass

reflects the full moon

In blood, he’s writing the lyrics

of a hip, brand-new tune."

~ Supper’s Ready (Genesis, 1972)

The phone company assigned us BELL666 as our WiFi router. When our “ministers” came to visit and wanted to connect to it, some eyebrows were raised, also the neighbours could see it on available networks. Had that number for 10 to 15 years, now a new router and a new number.

Okay, that’s it! It’s time for a ultimatum! Unless Jason start treating Paige like a human being, everything he owns like his toys, comic books and video games will be thrown into the incinerator!

That’s just sick-sick-sick. (/s?)

In the mid to late 1990s, for those too young to know, phone companies had voice mail that allowed you to have up to 6 mail boxes. Not a PBX like business, but for home phone.

It was gimmick, really, to go along with their multi-ring system. (The phone would ring a different way for different people. i.e. short-long-short-long for one person, short-short-long-short for a second person etc.)

Let me guess who recorded that message…

Six-six-six, the number of the beastHell and fire was spawned to be released – Iron Maiden, ‘The Number of the Beast’

So whose turn is it to ground him this time?

Btw, the Apple 1 Computer that Steve Wozniak built was originally sold (in 1976) for $666.66. Steve thought is was hilarious how some religious groups would say Apple is satanic because of the cost at the time.