barcodes are of The Devil
Barcodes are the Secret Mark of THE DEVil!
Find a Barcode (this is TRUE) look at the numbers under it. Find one with a 6 in. Barcodes are just machine readable numbers, so each number is represented by a pattern of thin and fat black or white lines. Look just above the 6 in your barcode, you'll see the pattern;
Thin black line / thin white line/ thin black line. that =6.
Now all barcodes have markers to tell the reader laser the Start, Middle and End. these are the slightly longer bars that stick out the bottom, and they are standard on ALL BARCODES.
See them? thin black line, thin white line, thin black line?
ALL BARCODES HAVE 666 in them!!!!!1!!eleventyone!!

REV 3:17-18 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is a human number; and his number is Six hundred sixty and six. (666)
(captainweasel, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 21:20, 17 replies)

Now correct me if I'm wrong...
But I'm pretty sure that about 4-5 weeks ago on radio 4 I heard somebody (a woman) who was a bit of an expert in all this state that the number of the beast is actually 667 and the error is (not surprisingly) down to the number of poor translations the "bible" has been through over the last 2,000 years.
Or something like that.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 2 Dec 2011, 22:01, closed)

I think you might be wrong
I am quite certain that 667 is in fact the neighbour of the beast

resumes lurking
(taya, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 22:22, closed)

nah 668 and 664 are the neighbours,
667 is on the other side of the road.

They do compete to have the most Christmas lights though.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 22:30, closed)

Hahaha.

(Vinnie Strokes Got bummed on, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 11:23, closed)

0.666 is...
... the Number of the Millibeast
(gordonjcp, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 18:03, closed)

some variant manuscripts have it as 616

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 23:19, closed)

Fuck!!!
and here I was quite pleased with myself getting a randomly issued number plate beginning with 666. Obviously I've had it all wrong.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 7:18, closed)

the truth is the start/end/middle codes don't correspond to any number at all,
and furthermore, the numbers on one side of the middle are negative images. Each number will have two black and two white strips, you see, in other words four black/white transitions per digit. The middle bar has two black lines surrounded by white on either side, or five strips in total, allowing the negative patterns on the other side to follow straight on from it. Thus it can be scanned upside down and still work.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 22:33, closed)

Nero
Isn't the whole number of the beast thing to do with how Nero signed his name?
(Rilux might be pregnant and has bum-aids, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 22:44, closed)

there are umpty theories,
and they're all crazy.

My favourite one, though, is Vicarius Filii Dei.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 22:48, closed)

Still not quite right
I thing the one you are looking for is

Equos amo
(the_icks has the sweet essence of giraffe, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 8:04, closed)

I'm not clicking that!
Even if your sig is an obscure Bonzo's lyric.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 8:29, closed)

Signature
Well spotted... was a happy shopper on Wednesday, found the 40th Anniversary BDDB concert on dvd for £1!!!! I now have 2 very happy sons who now have a tendency to shout out "Barbed wire bum baby!!" and burst out laughing!
(the_icks has the sweet essence of giraffe, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 9:38, closed)

I always connected the everyone is numbered
with your IP address.
(Phooey I COOK MUD, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 9:37, closed)

these are the slightly longer bars that stick out the bottom, and they are standard on ALL BARCODES.
Sadly, not true. Only on certain codes, like Pharmacodes and older variants. 128A-C codes don't have to have them, and neither do Code 3&9 (referred to as Code39). The starts and ends on 128 codes are designated by an asterisk and can be any length needed. There was a habit of printing the human readable text at the bottom of the barcode and encasing it with longer lines each side to fill in the space.
(dchurch bah, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 10:04, closed)

The "Barcode" you're referring to is the "European Article Number" which is an EU standardised system of assigning a unique number to everything that is sold in retail.
The elongated bars are indeed the same pattern as the bar-code for 6 and in keeping with the sheer silliness of the programmers that devised this system, the computer in Brussels that assigns each number is named "The Beast"
And we say Belgians have no sense of humour.
(SCar, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 13:07, closed)

they're not the same pattern as a 6,
on the right-hand side a 6 has a narrow black bar, a narrow white space, a narrow black, and then a wide white space on the right. The two black bars look the same as the elongated bars but the width of the white spaces are part of the pattern as well.

On the left-hand side of the middle, a 6 looks nothing like the elongated bars, narrow white, narrow black, narrow white and then wide black. i.e. the optical inverse of the other 6.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 16:07, closed)