Turn the graphic upside down and take another look. Now the three center characters can be read as "666."
I wonder if this is another case of someone in the WT art department taking a little license in order to send a subliminal message.
I didn't use to believe any of the subliminal crap that was being "exposed." Then I remember reading "Hidden Persuaders," by Vance Packard (first publshed in 1957; now released in a new version). Some of it was very obvious (preferred colors like red) and some was very subtle (faces in ice cubes or in backgrounds). I think a lot of companies and advertising firms who weren't using subliminal messaging actually moved in that direction after the book came out because they realized how potentially effective it could be to influence some people.
I noticed that the subliminal messaging really started in the WT shortly after that time. While many here will poo-poo the idea that the WT is using, or ever has used subliminal messaging as a corporate policy, I do believe that a few members of their art department may have snuck in some boogered graphics that they knew would get past the reviews of the old guys, especially the nearly blind Fred Franz.
JV