Go to Hell on 6/6/06

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:01 am

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/ ... SP01.shtml

CBS News wrote:(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 Oct. 13, 1841.

Lartrak · Post by **Lartrak** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:54 am

Used to drive by it all the time when I lived in Michigan. Real small town actually. Great name, though, isn't it?

mikozero · Post by **mikozero** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:26 am

so you were on the road to hell then ?

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:29 am

The Highway to Hell, no doubt.

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:23 am

Are they going to paint the town red?

Lartrak · Post by **Lartrak** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:35 pm

DaMadFiddler wrote:The Highway to Hell, no doubt.

Interstate to Hell.. If I recall correctly (been years since I drove by it) we drove by it on one of the busiest and longest interstates in Michigan. I-96 maybe?

mikozero · Post by **mikozero** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:47 pm

so how long was it to Hell and back ?

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:19 pm

There is also a town somewhere in Mexico called Hell. I remember my parents sent me a postcard that said we went through hell and back or something like that.

Anyways date doesn't mean anything since its really 6-06-2006. There is several different ways people write the date 6-6-06 just happens to be one of them.

mikozero · Post by **mikozero** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:26 pm

the new Omen movie comes out . . . . WHoooOOooo! freaky . . . . what a coicedence . . . . 'Put the dog down Damien !'

it's still not as good as what this decade is called . . .

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:16 pm

Hello mr ticket man I'd like a 'one way ticket to hell and back' please

mikozero · Post by **mikozero** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:27 pm

there's a ticket stub to pin on the wall, huh

Post by **melancholy** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:24 pm

This topic is going to hell simply for all the bad puns.

stagg · Post by **stagg** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:47 pm

Thats my state for yea.

FETUS · Post by **FETUS** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:00 pm

Damn I'll miss the party for my sisters wedding.

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:42 am

my chemistry and physics teacher got lost in hell one time. turns out you have to cross a river to get to it.

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:01 pm

FETUS wrote:Damn I'll miss the party for my sisters wedding.

That reminds me its my sisters birthday on the 6'th, amusingly she is fairly religious as well which is normally a laugh as she was born in the 60's so every year its the beast, this time its even better

Trend Whore · Post by **Trend Whore** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:52 am

it isn't 666 ><

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=44169