Friday, December 28, 2007

Reporting at its Best

I've never been a fan of the Gwinnett Daily Post, which is a free paper that comes with our Charter service. However, this article in today's paper totally makes up for all of their wasted ink...


Louisiana town gets rid of telephone number of the beast

Reeves, LA--It's taken 40 years, but this southwest Louisiana village no longer bears the mark of the beast.

Beginning this month, residents and businesses can change the first three digits of their phone numbers from 666--depicted in the Bible as the mark of the beast--to 749.

Mayor Scott Walker said one of the biggest hangups he's had both as mayor and as a lifelong resident of Reeves, is the reaction he's gotten when giving people his number. He describes it as a pause, followed by the admonition: "Y'all have to change that."

"That's what we're trying to get rid of," he said. "This is a good town.

4 comments:

Nellie said...

Hilarious.

How did you get your photos to scroll like that??????

And p.s. I like this blog of yours!

Dani said...

LOL! Only you could find that artical!

Anonymous said...

Anybody who wonders if we were made for each other or not just needs to read this post!

Anonymous said...

666-7729 was my childhood phone number in Waco, TX....maybe David Koresh was the Beast!