hexakosi...oh, forget it

[Jonathan Lighter]

Here's somthing you don't see every day. About a town that whipped evil:

  2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7163767.stm (Dec. 29):

  "The fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia."

  JL




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