Party in Hell planned for 6-6-06

[Lewis]

Can you believe this, some people are just plain nuts.

Party in Hell planned for 6-6-06
USA Today

HELL, Michigan (AP) -- They're planning a hot time in Hell on Tuesday.

The day bears the date of 6-6-06, or abbreviated as 666 -- a number that carries hellish significance.

And there's not a snowball's chance in Hell that the day will go unnoticed in the unincorporated hamlet 60 miles west of Detroit.

Nobody is more fired up than John Colone, the town's self-styled mayor and owner of a souvenir shop.

"I've got `666' T-shirts and mugs. I'm only ordering 666 (of the items) so once they're gone, that's it," said Colone, also known as Odum Plenty. "Everyone who comes will get a letter of authenticity saying you've celebrated June 6, 2006, in Hell."

Most of Colone's wares will sell for $6.66, including deeds to one square inch of Hell.

Live entertainment and a costume contest are planned. The Gates of Hell should be installed at a children's play area in time for the festivities.

"They're 8 feet tall and 5 foot wide and each gate looks like flames, and when they're closed, it's a devil's head," Colone told The Detroit News for a Saturday story.

Mike "Smitty" Hickey, owner of the Dam Site Inn, wasn't sure what kind of clientele would show up Tuesday.

"We're all about having fun here. I don't think we're going to get the cult crowd, the devil worshippers or anything like that," said Hickey, whose bar's signature concoction is the Bloody Devil, a variant of the Bloody Mary.

Colone, meanwhile, has been in touch with radio stations as far away as San Diego and Seattle that are raffling off trips to Hell in honor of 6-6-6.

The 666 revelry is just the latest chapter in the town's storied history of publicity stunts, said Jason LeTeff, one of its 72 year-round residents -- or, as the mayor calls them, Hellions or Hell-billies. But LeTeff wasn't particularly enthused.

"Now, here I am living in Hell, taking my kids to church and trying to teach them the right things and the town where we live is having a 6-6-6 party," he said.

According to the town's semiofficial Web site, there are two leading theories about how Hell got its name.

The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schoene hell" -- roughly translated as, "So bright and beautiful." Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.

The second holds that George Reeves was asked after Michigan gained statehood what he thought the town he helped settle should be called, and reportedly replied, "I don't care, you can name it Hell if you want to." The name became official on October 13, 1841.
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[RichardE40K]

I think it's funny. Everything seems to be fine here. It's mainly to do with the new omen film which I'm looking forward to. You know iyt's wierd really, all my SAT's results were 666, and I took them 3 times. Really creeped out all my teachers lol.

 

[Vic C.]

http://www.christianforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=22914

8-)

 

[Lewis]

I saw a guy on TV today, just bragging away, about this day because his birthday fell on the 6/6/06.

 

[Scott]

I didn't think anyone would forget today is 6-6-06.

 

[Lewis]

CNN

Moms-to-be avoid births on beastly day
Hospitals reschedule baby deliveries away from 6-6-6

NEW YORK (AP) -- Around the country, some superstitious mothers-to-be took steps Tuesday to make sure their babies were not born on the most bedeviling of dates, 6-6-6.

In New York, "people are canceling left and right because of what today represents," said Liza Washington, an administrative assistant at Children's Hospital of the New York-Presbyterian Medical Center. More than a dozen deliveries were postponed because of 666, which is said to be the "Number of the Beast" in the Bible's book of Revelation.

Julie Haley, 33, of Reading, Massachusetts, went into labor Monday. As of Tuesday afternoon, she still had not given birth.

"We were going to try to get it out before midnight or I was going to keep my legs closed," she said. "I don't want her to have that stigma for the rest of her life. When she gets older, her friends would say that anything bad would be because of her birthdate."

A Chicago, Illinois, obstetrician, Dr. Scott Pierce, performed a C-section on Monday on a woman who didn't want her son to be teased about his birthday and called names like Damien. Damien is the lead character in the movie "The Omen," about a sinister boy who turns out to be the Antichrist. A remake of the classic horror film was released Tuesday.

Pierce, who works at two Chicago-area hospitals, said he and his colleagues canceled the deliveries scheduled for Tuesday. But he added, "I'll do nothing that is ethically not indicated."

Pierce said that in general, about 25 percent of all births involve C-sections whose timing can be controlled "give or take a day." And about 30 percent of births are natural, but labor is artificially induced, allowing the timing to be controlled as well.

In Wichita, Kansas, when a woman realized that her delivery date was June 6, she asked her doctor to delay the birth, said Dr. James Whiddon of the obstetrics and gynecology department at Wichita Clinic.

Another baby was born early because of 666.

Tabitha Unternahrer of Wayland, Iowa, was supposed to have a C-section on Tuesday but called her doctor and had the date moved up. Her daughter, Taryn Reney, was born May 31.

"About two weeks ago, I realized the date and called and told them it had to be moved," said Unternahrer, whose decision was triggered by a dream about complications in childbirth.

Rebecca Zerkin scheduled her baby girl's birth by C-section for the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year -- on purpose.

"I did it because June 5 is my birthday and I wanted us to each have our own birthday," said the 35-year-old teacher, still on painkillers as she held her 5-hour-old girl at Manhattan's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. As for the superstition, "I couldn't care less. The date is easy to remember."

Jill Haub, born on June 6, 1966, celebrated her 40th birthday on Tuesday. She is a mother of two boys and teaches sixth-graders in Yukon, Oklahoma.

"When I tell people my birthday, the ones who are really brave give me the look and say, `That's scary!' " said Haub, a practicing Christian. "And I say, `Actually, I have an extra 6 -- born on 6-6-66 -- so that's four sixes. I'm good, not evil.' "

 

[RichardE40K]

When superstion meets pure idiotic thoughts and fears. This is what happens. I don’t know if any woman has given birth in the UK. I think it’s cool if someone has, its just a date.

 

[Vic C.]

When superstion meets pure idiotic thoughts and fears. This is what happens. I don’t know if any woman has given birth in the UK. I think it’s cool if someone has, its just a date.

I agree, not being a superstitious man myself. This is like omitting the 13th. floor in a high-rise building. :-?

 

[ArtGuy]

When superstion meets pure idiotic thoughts and fears. This is what happens. I don’t know if any woman has given birth in the UK. I think it’s cool if someone has, its just a date.

I'd guess that probably thousands of women gave birth in the UK on that date. The population there is, what, 60 million, or something?

 

[RichardE40K]

Population is huge, birthrate getting bigger each year, the army of damiens is almost complete lol.

 

[Khristeeanos]

Why doesn't the ACLU sue the city of Hell and get them to change their name? :evil:

 

[Lewis]

Why doesn't the ACLU sue the city of Hell and get them to change their name? :evil:

Yeah" how about that. The ACLU will pick on us in a New York minute, and that is fast.

 

[Dakota]

I know this is wrong to laugh at, but this line just made me roll on the floor.

"The Gates of Hell should be installed at a children's play area in time for the festivities. "

Now, this wouldnt have made me laugh if it was the enterence to the party for the parents, but for the Childrens play area? What the crap.