In Hebrew, the letters of the alphabet have each assigned a number (for example S might be represented by the number 42, I don't know the actual numbers). Written Hebrew uses only consonants. The total of the number values of the consonants in Nero Caesar (Qasr Nero) add up to 666. Any Jewish scholar in the first century would have understood this, and would have understood that 666 was code for the Emperor Nero. NOT Satan. Nor any of his minions. Nor what we commonly think of today as the Antichrist. Nor even Hillary. You're welcome.
Oh, blast, that wasn't it, hold on a sec:
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything. (I like that one).
Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.
(Sigh!!) OK, third time pays for all, as Bilbo's dad used to say:
Michelle Malkin has got her girdle in a knot about Mrs. Bush's humour. Did it ever occur to anyone that Mrs. Bush had just joked about about how Dubya couldn't tell a horse from a cow, and was then just joking about how he couldn't tell a boy horse from a girl horse? And this was not necessarily about masturbating horses?? I mean, masturbating a horse was the first thing that occurred to me, but you all know me, I'm sick. How can all our upright uptight fellow conservatives be thinking of such things? Sheesh! And the stripper joke was a cute shot at Lynn Cheney. I saw the clips last night, Mrs. Bush was not pushing the prurient as most comics will as a matter of course with body language and leering facial expressions. Ho hum...
(These same types would take my "Ho hum" at the end of the last paragraph and ask me why I was inserting a Chinese prostitute into my discussion...)
Gasp! You're gonna get my thread pulled!