06-06-06 is a Bodacious Bonza Bottler Day

Author: Lisa Tolliver — Published: Jun 06, 2006 at 6:20 pm 2 comments

Today is an occasion for fetes, not threats. Don’t believe it? Read about the Mayor from Hell and others having a wicked good time.


The signs are unmistakable. Today is bound to be a helluva day. It is the sixth day of the sixth month of year six of this millennium and at 6:06 this morning, the temperature ranged from 60 to 66 degrees Fahrenheit in the New York Metro area.

I am all fired up because 06-06-06 is a Bodacious Bonza Bottler Day. If you are wondering, "What the H-E-double-hockey sticks is a Bonza Bottler Day?" read "Cinco de Mayo and Bonza Bottler Day" here at Blogcritics. Bonza Bottler Day was founded by Elaine Fremont, who died in a car accident in 1995. Her sister, Gail Berger — who is now the Bonza Bottler Day sponsor — explains that:

When the number of the year also coincides with the number of the day and month (July 7, 1997), there is reason to have a bigger celebration (more food, more friends and more decorations). We call this a Bodacious Bonza Bottler Day. Bodacious means "extraordinary, impressively great in size, or enormous." A baby born on a Bonza Bottler Day is known as a Bonza Bottler Baby which makes those birthday celebrations doubly special.

Days like 06-06-06 occur only once per century and, for better or worse, this Bodacious Bonza Bottler Day has particular significance. Heather Whipps explains the brouhaha in a May 25, 2006 LiveScience article entitled, "06/06/06: Another Date with Para-Science:"

The number 666 is used to refer to the beast in the Bible's Book of Revelations:

"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."

Purveyors of pop culture, such as the filmmakers responsible for making and marketing Omen, a.k.a. Omen (666), have capitalized on the day, turning "evil into gold," as Tony Allen-Mills of the Sunday Times-Britain observed. In contrast, the advent of June 6, 2006, struck a note of dread in some people. For example, Allen-Mills reported in, "Mothers expect Damien on 6/6/06" (April 30, 2006, Sunday Times-Britain), that the prospect of giving birth today sufficiently terrified some parents that they took pains to rush or delay their babies' arrivals to avoid "spawning devil children on Armageddon."
 
Not everyone is worried today, though. As Dan Nailen of the Salt Lake Tribune reports in "666 - for many, today's a devil of a good time:"

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BlogCritic Lisa Tolliver is a Principal at professional services firm 360 MERIDIAN, LLC and a popular lecturer and media personality. Blogging is one way she pursues her "four eyed" mission to inform, instruct, intrigue and inspire. …

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  • 1 - Dave Nalle

    Jun 06, 2006 at 8:41 pm

    Technically there's a 6/6/6 every century, not every millenium.

    Dave

  • 2 - LIsa Tolliver

    Jun 06, 2006 at 11:45 pm

    Thanks Dave, hell yes...you're right. LT.

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