"Depending on my mood, these are the numbers I most often use when my wife asks, 'How much did this goddamn computer cost, again?' "-- Fred Graver

"Add them together, and you get $66,600,600.51, which, if I remember my Bible, is the annual income of the beast, plus tips."--Steven L. Smith

"They are all beautiful, rounded, curvy numbers, until that little, cranky half-curvy 5 and that upright 1 came along and ruined everything. But 5 plus 1 is 6. I rest my case."--Kate Clinton

"Sixty-six million is the amount Kirk Douglas would have to spend on Viagra to get a hard-on. Six hundred thousand is the amount Michael Douglas has spent treating his 'sex addiction.' And $600.51 is the amount Eric Douglas has to his name."--Jon Hotchkiss

"The declining value of Pfizer stock once word got out that Viagra results not in longer erections but in longer elections."--Russ Evansen

"The amount I'd have made if I had loaded up on Entremed stock on Friday; the amount I'd have lost if I had bought Entremed stock at the opening on Monday; what a week's worth of Viagra would cost me at the local pharmacy. (I didn't buy the stock; I don't need the Viagra; somebody's making money out there.)"--Dennis Levandoski

"The cost of 15 seconds of advertising time on the last episode of Seinfeld; the amount Jerry spent on white shoelaces this season; the amount I'm willing to pay to not hear any of the following words or phrases in the next nine days: 'a show about nothing'; 'a show supposedly about nothing'; 'beloved'; 'bids farewell'; 'says good-bye'; 'countdown'; 'final episode'; 'soup Nazi.' "--Nancy Franklin

"Price range on a QP of Humbolt County 'kind bud' depending on the time of year."--Craig Milbourn

"All refer to the Chinese influence on American politics. Sixty-six million is what Beijing would have paid for White House influence; $600,000 is what it actually paid; and $600.51 is the amount Al Gore returned after learning Charley Trie wasn't the Greenpeace cartoon mascot."--Jeff Smith

"$66,000,000: What Ken Starr has spent just on investigating Socks. $600,000: What Garfield, Heathcliff, and Morris have contributed to the Socks legal defense fund. $600.51: Snoopy's hourly rate for defending cats in court."--Gary Frazier

"The first is the cost of providing Viagra to an entire village of smurfs. Next is Wal-Mart's retail savvy version of the Six Million Dollar Man. The latter is the amount Monica Lewinsky spent buying lattes for George Stephanopoulos in the hope that he would perform oral sex on Clinton."--Winter Miller

"Advances for future projects by Leonardo DiCaprio, Monica Lewinsky, O.J. Simpson (the 51 cents is for knife sharpening)."--Andrew Staples

"According to DNC guidelines, those sums will fetch you, respectively: a chance to personally verify Paula Jones' claims, if you catch our drift; a midafternoon tussle in the Lincoln Bedroom with Al Gore; and a suspiciously long hug from Madeline Albright."--Tim Carvell

"In 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Popkin underpaid on their federal taxes and owed $600.51. In 1972 with penalties and interest the amount came to $600,000. In 1997 the amount was $66,000,000. The Popkin Gang is holding up trains and banks in Illinois because last year the IRS raided their home, kicked in the door, broke a window, and killed their mother and their dog. But it's OK, Tommy Lee Jones is on the case and is closing in on them. Banks in Missouri have nothing to worry about."--Alfa-Betty Olsen and Marshall Efron

"They are all part of today's $66,600,600.51 question!"--Barry Crimmins