Word: helling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...John Colone works in Hell - Hell, Michigan, that is - so he's doing his best to capitalize on the devilish date. In addition to being mayor of the town of 72, Colone owns Screams Ice Cream, where cones can be had this week for just 66 cents, and T-shirts with hellish slogans are going for $6.66. "I've Been to Hell and Back," one says...
...couples are getting married in a chapel in back of Screams, Colone says, because they reasoned that things can only get better if they get married in Hell on the "Day of the Devil." "People at church frowned at me when I mentioned the celebrations this week," says Chad Wines, who works at Screams. "They said 666 was the mark of the beast. But I'm just here to work...
...town of Hell is hardly alone in reveling in this week's ominous numerology. Conservative author Ann Coulter chose the date as the publication day for her lefty-bashing book called Godless: The Church of Liberalism. Radio Free Satan, an online rock station, is hosting a Monday "sin-tennial" party in Los Angeles called "Satan's Rockin' 666 Eve party." The band Slayer planned to launch its "Unholy Alliance Tour" on Tuesday (until a band member got sick), and 20 Century Fox is releasing its remake of The Omen, the 1976 horror film about a boy who bears Satan...
...freelance photographer who has spent 13 months in Iraq, five of them with Kilo Company--Kilo had drawn a short stick in the battle for Fallujah in 2004, enduring days of street-to-street and sometimes house-to-house fighting. During an operation that came to be known as Hell House, a Kilo unit was ambushed inside a house by half a dozen insurgents armed with machine guns and grenades; one Marine died, and several others were wounded. Trapped inside, with the enemy in the adjoining rooms, the Marines finally blew the house up in order to kill the insurgents...
...gavel, Costello does a PowerPoint floor show with happy hands and a jerky delivery. You can never predict when Costello's number will switch from the piano of crisis to the forte of triumph. So an audience tends to ride out the bumps with him. "Where the bloody hell were you?" Costello shrieks, referring to an era of high indebtedness when Labor leader Kim Beazley was in charge of the nation's finances. Soon there'll be no tax on superannuation benefits taken at age 60, Costello brags. When the cheering stops, he cheekily claims success for his procreation mantra...