http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198104,00.html
heck, Mich. — They're planning a hot time Tuesday in heck.
Tuesday bears the once-in-a-millennium date of 6-6-06, or, in brief, 666 — a number that, according to the Bible's Book of Revelations, signifies the devil.
And there's not a snowball's chance in heck that the day will go unnoticed in the unincorporated hamlet 60 miles west of Detroit.
Nobody is more fired up than John Colone, the town's self-styled mayor and owner of a souvenir shop.
"I've got `666' T-shirts and mugs. I'm only ordering 666 [of the items] so once they're gone, that's it," said Colone, also known as Odum Plenty. "Everyone who comes will get a letter of authenticity saying you've celebrated June 6, 2006, in heck."
Most of Colone's wares will sell for $6.66, including deeds to one square inch of heck. Live entertainment and a costume contest are planned. The Gates of heck should be installed at a children's play area in time for the festivities.
"They're 8 feet tall and 5 foot wide and each gate looks like flames, and when they're closed, it's a devil's head," Colone told The Detroit News for a Saturday story.
Mike "Smitty" Hickey, owner of the Dam Site Inn, wasn't sure what kind of clientele would show up Tuesday.
"We're all about having fun here. I don't think we're going to get the cult crowd, the devil worshippers or anything like that," said Hickey, whose bar's signature concoction is the Bloody Devil, a variant of the Bloody Mary.
Colone, meanwhile, has been in touch with radio stations as far away as San Diego and Seattle that are raffling off trips to heck in honor of 6-6-6.
The 666 revelry is just the latest chapter in the town's storied history of publicity stunts, said Jason LeTeff, one of its 72 year-round residents — or, as Colone calls them, Hellions or heck-billies. But LeTeff wasn't particularly enthused.
"Now, here I am living in heck, taking my kids to church and trying to teach them the right things and the town where we live is having a 6-6-6 party," he said.
According to the town's semiofficial Web site, there are two leading theories about how heck got its name.
The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schoene heck" — roughly translated as, "So bright and beautiful." Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.
The second holds that George Reeves was asked after Michigan gained statehood what he thought the town he helped settle should be called, and reportedly replied, "I don't care, you can name it heck if you want to." The name became official on Oct. 13, 1841.
Don't really get what this huge deal about 6/06/06 is. Seriously, it's just a date. I don't think anything special or scary is going to happen. "The Omen" that creepy stupid movie about some kid that's the devil is coming out . . . but other than that. Why are people freaking out?
Whether or not it's just a date, I'm still really relieved not to be babysitting Tuesday. 
The new version looks rather interesting, although I would definitely not recommend any of these movies to young kids.
