Comments on: Dining with the Devil

By: katie5000

katie5000 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:55:20 +0000

…she suddenly lost interest in my moral development, and I never had to go to church again! In the absence of God’s guidance, I’ve been killing puppies and shoving old ladies in front of buses ever since. Don’t be like me. Stay in church, kids!

This totally made me ROFL. XD

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:54:07 +0000

But wait… A Domino’s 666 deal would be more expensive than the 555 meal. Personally, I would not have ordered it for that reason alone. I may find a sort of morbid pleasure in exploiting other’s silly numerological superstitions, but that doesn’t mean I want to pay $18 for my pizzas instead of $15.

By: logoseph

logoseph — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:49:02 +0000

Oh, I definitely have a Taco Cabana “Devil Meal” with my friends-two bean&cheese tacos and two fajita tacos and tax= $6.66. If Domino’s had launched a 666 deal instead of 555, I would have ordered it. Too bad they’re run by religious nuts…

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:33:06 +0000

This begs the question of whether a fast food joint would make more money if they intentionally made more of their commonly ordered meals add up to $6.66 after tax?

Or would it have the opposite effect of the religious avoiding the place for fear of the 666 meals?

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:24:09 +0000

Same here Dan…I worked at Burger King in high school and probably about 75% of the time the same would happen. I grew up in a small town and I knew most of these people…even people who weren’t particulary religious or superstitious would add something to their order so it wouldn’t come to $6.66. I guess maybe with some people it is more about the superstition (like not walking under a ladder or avoiding crossing the path of a black cat) than being afraid of the mark of the beast.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:09:42 +0000

A colleague of mine lives a number 666. And get this: his surname is Lucifer.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:18:51 +0000

I used to work at a grocery store and I saw this kind of thing all the time. If the total came to or ended in $6.66, 75% of the time the customer would frantically proceed to add or subtract an item. It was funny the first couple of times but after that I couldn’t help but roll my eyes and sigh.

Meanwhile my friends and I had also discovered that Taco Bell had what we called the “666 Meal,” which consisted of a grilled stuffed burrito, two tacos, and a large soda (if I remember correctly).

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:22:55 +0000

Z: That's one of those funny coincidences like the anal cell phone. I had been planning to write this article for the last several years, but I kept putting it off. Then last Monday, Snopes posted (or maybe updated) their article about it. I subscribe to the Snopes RSS feed because, really, I have nothing better to do with my life than read about how stupid other people are. I know that makes me a bad person, but I can't help myself. Anyway, I saw their article on Monday and decided the time was right for my own article on the subject. And then on Wednesday, Not Always Right published that story you linked to. I thought that was a great confluence of internet events, so my story would be even more timely. I was originally going to mention those other articles and then launch into my own story. When I finally had the chance to write it this weekend, those other articles just didn't fit into the flow, so they got axed.

By: thoughtcounts Z

thoughtcounts Z — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:08:32 +0000

Made me think of this recent addition to (The Customer Is) Not Always Right.