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What's your favourite one that you almost believe? And why? We're popping on our tinfoil hats and very much looking forward to your answers. (Thanks to Shezam for this suggestion.)
( , Thu 1 Dec 2011, 13:47)
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Barcodes are the Secret Mark of THE DEVil!
Find a Barcode (this is TRUE) look at the numbers under it. Find one with a 6 in. Barcodes are just machine readable numbers, so each number is represented by a pattern of thin and fat black or white lines. Look just above the 6 in your barcode, you'll see the pattern;
Thin black line / thin white line/ thin black line. that =6.
Now all barcodes have markers to tell the reader laser the Start, Middle and End. these are the slightly longer bars that stick out the bottom, and they are standard on ALL BARCODES.
See them? thin black line, thin white line, thin black line?
ALL BARCODES HAVE 666 in them!!!!!1!!eleventyone!!
REV 3:17-18 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is a human number; and his number is Six hundred sixty and six. (666)
( , Fri 2 Dec 2011, 21:20, 17 replies)
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But I'm pretty sure that about 4-5 weeks ago on radio 4 I heard somebody (a woman) who was a bit of an expert in all this state that the number of the beast is actually 667 and the error is (not surprisingly) down to the number of poor translations the "bible" has been through over the last 2,000 years.
Or something like that.
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I am quite certain that 667 is in fact the neighbour of the beast
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667 is on the other side of the road.
They do compete to have the most Christmas lights though.
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and here I was quite pleased with myself getting a randomly issued number plate beginning with 666. Obviously I've had it all wrong.
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and furthermore, the numbers on one side of the middle are negative images. Each number will have two black and two white strips, you see, in other words four black/white transitions per digit. The middle bar has two black lines surrounded by white on either side, or five strips in total, allowing the negative patterns on the other side to follow straight on from it. Thus it can be scanned upside down and still work.
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Isn't the whole number of the beast thing to do with how Nero signed his name?
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and they're all crazy.
My favourite one, though, is Vicarius Filii Dei.
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I thing the one you are looking for is
Equos amo
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Even if your sig is an obscure Bonzo's lyric.
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Well spotted... was a happy shopper on Wednesday, found the 40th Anniversary BDDB concert on dvd for £1!!!! I now have 2 very happy sons who now have a tendency to shout out "Barbed wire bum baby!!" and burst out laughing!
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Sadly, not true. Only on certain codes, like Pharmacodes and older variants. 128A-C codes don't have to have them, and neither do Code 3&9 (referred to as Code39). The starts and ends on 128 codes are designated by an asterisk and can be any length needed. There was a habit of printing the human readable text at the bottom of the barcode and encasing it with longer lines each side to fill in the space.
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The "Barcode" you're referring to is the "European Article Number" which is an EU standardised system of assigning a unique number to everything that is sold in retail.
The elongated bars are indeed the same pattern as the bar-code for 6 and in keeping with the sheer silliness of the programmers that devised this system, the computer in Brussels that assigns each number is named "The Beast"
And we say Belgians have no sense of humour.
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on the right-hand side a 6 has a narrow black bar, a narrow white space, a narrow black, and then a wide white space on the right. The two black bars look the same as the elongated bars but the width of the white spaces are part of the pattern as well.
On the left-hand side of the middle, a 6 looks nothing like the elongated bars, narrow white, narrow black, narrow white and then wide black. i.e. the optical inverse of the other 6.
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