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cat mum: what’s 6 times 7?
cat boy (making faces): 6 7!!!
cat mum: hilarious, as always. but actually …?
cat boy: 42
cat mum: 6 x 7 - 6 7 - is 42?!
cat boy: yeah … so?
cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!
cat boy: daddy! mommy’s being weird again!
cat dad: aww, you see son, - your mommy is just a huge dork!
cat mum: history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes!
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Sorry to be pedantic, but wouldn’t this be the correct line:
cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the
answer to theultimate question of life, the universe and everything!42 is the answer
If 6x7=42 than 6x7 is also the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. According to my math teacher at least
Now let’s prove that 7x6 is also the answer to the ultimate question.
Sorry to also be pedantic but, mathematically speaking, 42 is equal to 6×7, so they are essentially the same thing said in different terms.
STOP!!! IF WE KNOW THE QUESTION AND ANSWER THE UNIVERSE WILL RESTART AND BE EVEN WEIRDER
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Towel
I wonder if we will be friends
Oh no, not again.
Oh no…
The 6 7 meme has now done three things:
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Not only has It has evolved it’s chimera-ed with another meme (42) which is a much older meme with a lot of resilience.
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This chimera of the two memes is an intergenerational mix between those that grew up and read/listened/watched Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and the Ticktok generation. This now means that this meme is no longer just something one generation “gets” it’s crossed the boundary and both can now enjoy it for the coincidence.
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The intergenerational conversation can now go like this:
"6 7 "(gestures with hands)
“(Sigh) Yes… But do you know what’s 6 x 7?”
(Uses calculator app) " …42?"
“42! The answer to life, the universe, and everything!”
“What?”
“Look it up.”
(*Searches and reads) “Oh… Woah, that’s crazy.”
“Yeah… Woah”
I fear that 6 7 is a meme that will now last much longer than expected.
Still, it might generate some new Douglas Adams readers, which is a good thing.
Naw. As with anything, once adults start going 6 7 the younglings will abandon it as if it were Plague.
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67?
Is this some new Gen-Alpha-Speak that I’m too (Older-)Gen-Z to understand?
Yes.
Be thankful and don’t look into it any further!
Oh no… there’s a word in my native tongue that sounds similar to 67, 碌柒
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That’s it. That’s my official headcanon definition for it. Pretty sure Gen-Alpha kids in Hong Kong are already laughing at the “67” “meme”.
FYI, it isn’t “67” as in “sixty seven” but “6 7” as in “six seven”. Two separate numbers.
Yes… 碌柒 is the same syllables as 六七 (Six Seven), but with tones 1 and 6 instead of 6 and 1
Sixty-seven would be 六十七
Ah, thank you for explaining the language rules. I just inferred from how it was typed in the comment. The link it sent me too was a bit confusing it seems without at least basic understanding of the language, which I’m not educated in.
Richard?
Dick‽
Ever hear the joke “why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 ate/8 9”? Well kids these days are really into that joke to the point that they will go crazy if you just mention 6 and 7.
It means about as much as “23 skidoo” which you’re also way, way too young and Gen Z for
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I never saw the connection!
If nothing else, I have a bunch of brats to introduce to some great literature! Uncle Nerd Powers Activated!
It’s funny that Arthur even suggests “What’s 6 times 7?” as the ultimate question. At least in the movie. It’s been a while since I read the books.
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
A fun afternoon.
Fifty four
I think they find out in book 3 or 4 that that’s the question, but it’s been years since I’ve read them.
Sort of.
The mice decide that they’ll just choose the question “how many roads must a man walk down?” and be done with it.
Arthur divines that the question is “what is six by nine” but that gives the wrong answer, because the question itself is wrong.
Wasn’t there a part in a later book, where they find the question on prehistoric earth?
He was on prehistoric earth when he figured out that he could try to “print out” the answer since he was part of the program and got “what is six by nine”, so that may be what you’re thinking of
I’m sorry, I don’t accept multiplication from any base other than base 13.
6-7= -1
Guys it’s -1!!
IT ALL TIES BACK
<Godzilla enters the chat> KReeeon? [translated: 6-7?]
6+7=13
13!
It’s everywhere!
What does 6,227,020,800 (=13!) have to do with anything? /j
Avocato?
42 is the answer to like, the universe and everything.
“What is 6*7?” is the question.
This was the first place my mind went when I found out about 6 7
I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn’t it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?
No, IIRC Arthur was trying to rearrange letters to figure out the question, but the closest he got was something like “What is six times nine?” which is definitely not 42.
Part of why I left Imgur was to escape these shitty, unfunny comics.
I hate that they’re now starting to infect Lemmy! What do you people like about these “Litter Box” comics so much? Why are they fucking everywhere? I just don’t get it.
The existence of the 6-7 meme indicates the calculations on the question are nearing completion and the Vogons are on their way
Have the dolphins left yet
Those Chinese River dolphins have.
Not sure, let me ask Wonko the Sane
Man, I’ll fuckin’ take it over what we’ve got going on. I’d say at this point we deserve to be bulldozed for a galactic bypass.
Thank god. Or the mice.
Don’t be ridiculous. It’s the rabbits. Rabbits are coming.
Rabbits are coming. Rabbits are coming. Rabbits are coming. Rabbits are coming. Rabbits are coming. Rabbits are coming. Rabbits are coming. Ra…
I hope we hear their gorgeous opera before Earth is ushered away like a hill next to a planned highway…
Oh freddled gruntbuggly…
