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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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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The existence of the 6-7 meme indicates the calculations on the question are nearing completion and the Vogons are on their way

[-] Regna@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I hope we hear their gorgeous opera before Earth is ushered away like a hill next to a planned highway…

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Oh freddled gruntbuggly...

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thank god. Or the mice.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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…

[-] Echo5@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Have the dolphins left yet

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not sure, let me ask Wonko the Sane

[-] 46_and_2@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sorry to be pedantic, but wouldn't this be the correct line:

cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the ~~answer to the~~ ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!

42 is the answer

[-] huppakee@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Now let's prove that 7x6 is also the answer to the ultimate question.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

STOP!!! IF WE KNOW THE QUESTION AND ANSWER THE UNIVERSE WILL RESTART AND BE EVEN WEIRDER

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

67?

Is this some new Gen-Alpha-Speak that I'm too (Older-)Gen-Z to understand?

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Yes.

Be thankful and don't look into it any further!

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

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".

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

FYI, it isn't "67" as in "sixty seven" but "6 7" as in "six seven". Two separate numbers.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Richard?

Dick‽

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It means about as much as "23 skidoo" which you're also way, way too young and Gen Z for

[-] hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Bronzor@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

So long and thanks for all the fish!

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[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh no...

The 6 7 meme has now done three things:

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.
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.
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.

[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Naw. As with anything, once adults start going 6 7 the younglings will abandon it as if it were Plague.

[-] Comrade_Spood@quokk.au 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

But then the universe would have popped out of existence and been replaced by a more complicated one.
Again.
So we got lucky there.

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[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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...

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

A fun afternoon.

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

6-7= -1

Guys it's -1!!

IT ALL TIES BACK

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

This was the first place my mind went when I found out about 6 7

[-] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

!!!

I never saw the connection!

If nothing else, I have a bunch of brats to introduce to some great literature! Uncle Nerd Powers Activated!

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

42 is the answer to like, the universe and everything.

"What is 6*7?" is the question.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

42 / 2 is 21

ITS ALL CONNECTED

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[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

6+7=13

13!

It's everywhere!

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