Dec 08

The world’s most expensive phone number 6666666, having seven sixes, was auctioned for charity Friday, December 7, 2007 in Qatar which was sold for 10 millions Qatari riyals or £1.5 millions. The previous record holder was Chinese number 88888888, which sold for £270,000. The Cantonese word for eight sounds very similar to the word for rich. It was bought by Sichuan Airlines.

The number 666 has some interesting history. The weird world of numerology shows 666 as a holy in Judaism because it represents six directions – east, west, north, south, up and down. One interpretation makes 666 equal the summation of the Greek Numbering of the Arabic word “ELLAH” (synonym of Allah) which means “GOD”. And Viagra has a molecular weight of 666.7g/mol.

The first Apple Computer was sold for $666.66. The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is w - so www shows how evil the internet is. In 1999, Intel marketed their Pentium 666 Mhz chip as 667 Mhz, conveniently rounding up. Some other wacky theories about the number 666 include Microsoft’s Bill Gates whose real name is William Henry Gates III, but he goes by Bill Gates III. By converting the letters of his name to the ASCII-values (which are used in computers) you will get the following:

B I L L G A T E S 3

66+73+76+76+71+65+84+69+83+3=666

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin also convert into 666. (65=A, Z=90).

I don’t know why people believe in this nonsense numerology, but truly what I felt is that it’s the stupidest news I have ever heard. I think that they just wanted to get notice by doing something unique, something new. It’s not all about specific reason like holy Judaism or holy name of god but it is pure show off of the money and great seeking of the people’s attention. S/he wants to earn the popularity with his/her money powers. Why not, cause money talks honey baby. And I think its being a dirty competition of getting noticed now. I heard in some countries that these kinds of cell phone and license plates’ numbers are sold in black money. There are plenty of fools who wants to buy these kind of unique numbers though they are too expensive or three expensive. Hahahaha…..

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