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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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I never saw the connection!
If nothing else, I have a bunch of brats to introduce to some great literature! Uncle Nerd Powers Activated!
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.
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Avocato?
Kinda looks like him, doesn’t it?
I’m sorry, I don’t accept multiplication from any base other than base 13.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Towel
I wonder if we will be friends
Oh no, not again.
The existence of the 6-7 meme indicates the calculations on the question are nearing completion and the Vogons are on their way
I hope we hear their gorgeous opera before Earth is ushered away like a hill next to a planned highway…
Oh freddled gruntbuggly…
Have the dolphins left yet
Not sure, let me ask Wonko the Sane
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…
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
6-7= -1
Guys it’s -1!!
IT ALL TIES BACK
<Godzilla enters the chat> KReeeon? [translated: 6-7?]
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
💀
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‽
It means about as much as “23 skidoo” which you’re also way, way too young and Gen Z for
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.
Isn’t that actually canon though? Cause the first book says the answer to the life, universe, and everything is 42, but then what is the question? And I think in the second book they answer that the question is 6x7
Edit: I was wrong, its actually 6x9. Which means Litterbox Comics only read the first book and is a poser and a fake fan. Probably only watched the movie sigh /s
In my defense of failing to remember the correct question, it has been awhile since I read the books.
W H A T D O Y O U G E T I F Y O U M U L T I P L Y S I X B Y N I N E
…had to downvote so your sum is appropriate…
Doing the Lord’s work.
Remember, that’s where they ran out of tiles. It could have been ‘ninety’ or ‘nine minus 2’ or in base-13.
oh thank you. i’m getting tired of being the only one saying that.
Personally I blame travel scrabble for that one.
The reason, or at least a significant part of the reason, if not the complete reason, that Arthur derives that question in particular is because he’s a result of the corruption of the calculation caused by the arrival of the B Ark of Golgafrinchams on Earth.
If Arthur had actually been a six foot tall Earth-ape descendant as described by the guide, his brain would have contained the actual answer rather than something almost but not quite totally unlike the true question.
But then the universe would have popped out of existence and been replaced by a more complicated one.
Again.
So we got lucky there.Spot on.
Also: Knowledge of the answer precludes knowledge the question. Peak knew that.
Earth was destroyed before it finished calculating. Of course the Question, as expressed by Arthur (who was part of said calculation), was wrong.
Never mind the issue of corrupted data from Ark B…
I didn’t read it, but I think SPOILER ALERT that it was 6x9 and than they were like “oh I always knew something was wrong”, or something like that.
Not sure though.
They got that question by drawing pieces from a set of scrabble tiles IIRC, and I just realised that Douglas Adams basically predicted LLMs.
Yes. And then someone pointed out that 6×9 = 42 in base 13. To which DNA replied, “I may be a sorry case, but I don’t write jokes in base 13.”
the question in the book is 6×9, because of course it is
6 by 9, right?
No, the question ends up being “what is 6x9”, which they then surmise would explain why everything is all screwed up.
Corrected from 8 to 9, it’s been a while since I’ve read it lol.
you have an off-by-one error
Thanks, fixed. Broken in any multi-universe.
6x9 IIRC. It’s not supposed to make sense.
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?
Fifty four
A fun afternoon.
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
This was the first place my mind went when I found out about 6 7
42 / 2 is 21
ITS ALL CONNECTED
OH SHIIIT!!!
~(i have no idea what 21 refers to)~
an infamous video of an older brother filming his younger brother
older bro: you stupid!
young bro: no i not!
old: whats 9+10?
young: 21
old: you stupid
That is 3x7, or 7 7 7. The divine number!
21 is also 10+9
U stoopid!
😲🙏
It was my age when i found out toasted bread in a peanutbutter sandwich is much better than untoasted. I’d say that’s significant enough to be part of the ultimate answer.
Ever make a pbj like a grilled cheese? Toast is great, but grilled is soo good
Bitcoiner dog whistle
Oh no, cringe…
21 + 2 is 23 OMG!
I’m out of the loop. The 42 reference I get, but the 67 reference I don’t. Please release me from my suffering.
Saying 6-7 at random times is the gen-alpha “lulz pancake waffles XD”
*holds up a spork*
OMG so random!
RAWR XD >w<
1337 h4x0rz on teh internetz ROFL
This is just what I’ve heard, but apparently 67 comes from a rap song called Doot Doot by Skrilla. The 67 is a reference to the 10-67 police code for a report of death.
Allegedly. I doubt the kids are saying it for any reason though.
I heard it was the height of some basketball player.
