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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!
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.
Naw. As with anything, once adults start going 6 7 the younglings will abandon it as if it were Plague.
!!!
I never saw the connection!
If nothing else, I have a bunch of brats to introduce to some great literature! Uncle Nerd Powers Activated!
The existence of the 6-7 meme indicates the calculations on the question are nearing completion and the Vogons are on their way
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.
I hope we hear their gorgeous opera before Earth is ushered away like a hill next to a planned highway…
Oh freddled gruntbuggly...
42 is the answer to like, the universe and everything.
"What is 6*7?" is the question.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Towel
I wonder if we will be friends
Oh no, not again.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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...
the question in the book is 6×9, because of course it is
I'm sorry, I don't accept multiplication from any base other than base 13.
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".
It means about as much as "23 skidoo" which you're also way, way too young and Gen Z for
6-7= -1
Guys it's -1!!
IT ALL TIES BACK
KReeeon? [translated: 6-7?]
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.