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Old 11-24-2011, 07:23 PM
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In my previous commercial building the space I took for my office was 666. I had never heard of it related to revelations so thought nothing of it. Next door was the Christian Science Reading Room. Someone from there commented about it. After thinking about it I decided to change it. I called the city engineers office and asked how to change my address. They said I had to appear at the board of zoning appeals, fill out a bunch of forms etc. I said OK I'll think about it.

So I asked my sign painter to paint the address 666 1/6 on my door. The sign painter was a druggie and when I got back to look at it he had painted 666 1/3 on the door in gold leaf. I said "good enough".

Next day my mailman came along and saw the sign. He said, "did you go to the city engineer etc etc? " I said "no".....then I said "If i put 666 1/3 on all my business cards and stationary and folks start sending me mail at that address and it comes into your box at the post office, what are you going to do with it?" He said "I guess I'll deliver it here". I said "good".

And so my address became 666 1/3 Main st. Of course somewhere in a file in the city hall City engineer's office resides a little sheet with my address as 666 Main st.
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