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* [[John Hodgman]]'s ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'' includes a list of (North American) phone numbers beginning with the prefix "666" including "a bunch of Satanists who got lucky" and "the author's home phone number". |
* [[John Hodgman]]'s ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'' includes a list of (North American) phone numbers beginning with the prefix "666" including "a bunch of Satanists who got lucky" and "the author's home phone number". |
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* ''[[Nightmare Academy]]'', by Frank Peretti has a rather contrived situation near the end of the book in which a row of buildings is being demolished and one of the characters needs to stop it by putting in a code that corresponds to... some technical detail. Anyway, it ends up being 666 (or 666.0 if you want to be picky, and the computer did). Lampshaded by the kid stopping it when he figures it out. |
* ''[[Nightmare Academy]]'', by Frank Peretti has a rather contrived situation near the end of the book in which a row of buildings is being demolished and one of the characters needs to stop it by putting in a code that corresponds to... some technical detail. Anyway, it ends up being 666 (or 666.0 if you want to be picky, and the computer did). Lampshaded by the kid stopping it when he figures it out. |
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* In [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Apocalypso'', every dimension is assigned a Greek letter and a number. Hell is Omega 666. |
* In [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Apocalypso'', every dimension is assigned a Greek letter and a number. Hell is Omega 666. |
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* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone]]'' book, Nicholas Flamel dies willingly at Six Hundred and Sixty Five Years old, which was intentionally spelled out to hide the reference. |
* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone]]'' book, Nicholas Flamel dies willingly at Six Hundred and Sixty Five Years old, which was intentionally spelled out to hide the reference. |
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