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Tim Blackmore (tim_blackmore@notes.ipl.ca) wrote:
: In article <5ag2ui$3ql@hbu005.ha.uk.sbphrd.com>,
:    Frank_Hollis-1@sbphrd.com.see-sig (Triple Quadrophenic) wrote:
: >In article <32C9D353.5BD6@efgh.net>, abcd@efgh.net (Anonymous ) dusted off 
: >the quill, prised open the inkwell and wrote...
: >>
: >
: >>
: >>It is somewhat cool that you posted this statement on the last day of
: >>1996.  As you may or may not already know, the year 1996 is only like 8
: >>other years in this milleneum in that it contains the number 666 within
: >>it.  If you drop the '1' and invert the two '9's, you get the famed
: >>dreaded mark. 
: >
: >What about 1997? If you remove the 1, the two 9s and the 7; then put in 
: >three 6s you get 666.

: Jeeze, you've got it all wrong! You simply invert the nines, and remove the 
: one from the seven!  Voila!

Nope, you subtract 1331 from 1997 and get 666! 1331 is an interesting 
number in its own right as it is the same backwards as forewards!  Not 
only does it shamelessly display the unlucky 13 in both directions, but 
it is also the fourth row in pascal's triangle:

                         1
                        1 1
                       1 2 1
                      1 3 3 1
                     1 4 6 4 1   and so on...

If that isn't enough, 1331 is also 11 cubed!!!  Remember that 
the most common isotope of boron is boron-11 and that boron 
has only 3 electrons in its valence shell.  Also take into 
consideration that boron is famous for its 3 center 
bridging bonds.  The last 3 comes from the nuclear spin of boron-11, 
which is 3/2, and that is 3 times the nuclear spin of hydrogen!  Now that 
we have boron and hydrogen together, we have boranes.  Also 666 is man's 
number.  What all this means should be obvious by now:

1997 will be the year in which humans use boranes to bring about the 
beginning of the end of the world!

-Superdave The Wonderchemist