--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote:
> <snip>
> > And don't get me started on the fact that all bar codes
> > start with 6, end with 6, and have 6 exactly in the middle.
> > All of them. So there's the sign of the beast's coming.
>
> "Contrary to popular myth, no bar code includes the
> number 666. This belief arose because the number six
> is represented by a pattern similar to that of the
> guard bars used to mark the beginning, middle, and
> end of every bar code. Since the guard bars always
> appear three times in a given bar code, people who
> mistakenly read them as sixes claimed that the
> pattern 6-6-6 was embedded in every bar code.
> However, if you look closely at the '6' in a bar
> code, you will see that there is a wide white bar
> either to the left or the right of its pattern
> (depending upon where within the bar code the number
> is positioned), which is not the case with the guard
> bars. The only numbers on the bar code which are
> scanned are those shown in the conventional numerals
> underneath it."
>
> http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/barcode.asp
>
Even if 666 were imbedded in every bar code, so what? There is
nothing intrinsically evil about those numbers, or that sequence.
Just another string posing as a snake, albeit humorously most of the
time.:-)
