Deep Thoughts - 6x7=42

a year ago by rapchee to c/comicstrips

transcript:
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!

Semi_Hemi_Demigod 188 points a year ago

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

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Regna 43 points a year ago

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

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ceenote 21 points a year ago

Oh freddled gruntbuggly...

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Echo5 22 points a year ago

Have the dolphins left yet

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 8 points a year ago

Not sure, let me ask Wonko the Sane

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NewSocialWhoDis 3 points a year ago

Those Chinese River dolphins have.

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ameancow 8 points a year ago

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MadMadBunny 3 points a year 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…

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skulblaka 3 points a year 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.

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46_and_2 59 points a year 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

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huppakee 24 points a year 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

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olafurp 8 points a year ago

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

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Doc_Crankenstein 8 points a year 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.

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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds 6 points a year ago

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

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Comrade_Spood 47 points a year 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.

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Vincent 43 points a year 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

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corsicanguppy 12 points a year ago

Remember, that's where they ran out of tiles. It could have been 'ninety' or 'nine minus 2' or in base-13.

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myrrh 6 points a year ago

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Vincent 3 points a year ago

Doing the Lord's work.

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Zorque 4 points a year ago

Personally I blame travel scrabble for that one.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points a year ago

oh thank you. i'm getting tired of being the only one saying that.

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kami 29 points a year ago

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.

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Vincent 42 points a year ago

They got that question by drawing pieces from a set of scrabble tiles IIRC, and I just realised that Douglas Adams basically predicted LLMs.

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FishFace 24 points a year ago

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."

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Xaphanos 7 points a year ago

https://alienencyclopedia.fandom.com/...

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palordrolap 21 points a year 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.

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CannonFodder 6 points a year 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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prex 1 point a year ago

Spot on.
Also: Knowledge of the answer precludes knowledge the question. Peak knew that.

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lime 16 points a year ago

the question in the book is 6×9, because of course it is

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grue 14 points a year 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...

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Hope 11 points a year ago

6 by 9, right?

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Rhaedas 7 points a year ago

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.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points a year ago

you have an off-by-one error

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Rhaedas 4 points a year ago

Thanks, fixed. Broken in any multi-universe.

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dohpaz42 1 point a year ago

6x9 IIRC. It’s not supposed to make sense.

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Bronzor 33 points a year ago

So long and thanks for all the fish!

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the_mighty_kracken 6 points a year ago

Zaphod Beeblebrox

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brown567 5 points a year ago

Towel

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the_mighty_kracken 3 points a year ago

I wonder if we will be friends

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Tigeroovy 5 points a year ago

Oh no, not again.

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QuinnyCoded 18 points a year ago

42 / 2 is 21

ITS ALL CONNECTED

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kami 14 points a year ago

OH SHIIIT!!!

(i have no idea what 21 refers to)

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BigBananaDealer 8 points a year ago

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

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certified_expert 7 points a year ago

That is 3x7, or 7 7 7. The divine number!

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carotte 8 points a year ago

21 is also 10+9

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groet 2 points a year ago

U stoopid!

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kami 1 point a year ago

😲🙏

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recentSlinky 5 points a year ago

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.

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ArsonButCute 6 points a year ago

Ever make a pbj like a grilled cheese? Toast is great, but grilled is soo good

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explodicle 1 point a year ago

Bitcoiner dog whistle

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kami 2 points a year ago

Oh no, cringe...

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jordanlund 3 points a year ago

21 + 2 is 23 OMG!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma

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racketlauncher831 1 point a year ago

2 + 1 is 3! Half-Life 3 confirmed‽

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DeathByBigSad 14 points a year ago

67?

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

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ouRKaoS 13 points a year ago

Yes.

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

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DeathByBigSad 8 points a year 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".

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Doc_Crankenstein 3 points a year ago

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

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DeathByBigSad 5 points a year 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

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AngryCommieKender 1 point a year ago

Richard?

Dick‽

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hamFoilHat 5 points a year 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.

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ripcord 3 points a year ago

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

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Kolanaki 11 points a year 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.

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spiffmeister 13 points a year ago

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

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ArcaneSlime 4 points a year ago

A fun afternoon.

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Johanno 1 point a year ago

Fifty four

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Maultasche 4 points a year 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.

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ripcord 4 points a year ago

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.

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Maultasche 1 point a year ago

Wasn't there a part in a later book, where they find the question on prehistoric earth?

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ripcord 2 points a year ago

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

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KurtVonnegut 11 points a year ago

I'm out of the loop. The 42 reference I get, but the 67 reference I don't. Please release me from my suffering.

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DerisionConsulting 32 points a year ago

Saying 6-7 at random times is the gen-alpha "lulz pancake waffles XD"

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Draegur 13 points a year ago

*holds up a spork*

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moody 8 points a year ago

OMG so random!

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Draegur 8 points a year ago

RAWR XD >w<

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VinnyDaCat 3 points a year ago

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.

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Underwaterbob 1 point a year ago

I heard it was the height of some basketball player.

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AntiBullyRanger 10 points a year ago

𒐆 𒐇 × = 𒐏𒐀

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ThePantser 8 points a year ago

6+7=13

13!

It's everywhere!

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Gutek8134 2 points a year ago

What does 6,227,020,800 (=13!) have to do with anything? /j

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ThePyroPython 8 points a year 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.

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renrenPDX 4 points a year ago

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

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SLVRDRGN 7 points a year ago

6-7= -1

Guys it's -1!!

IT ALL TIES BACK

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PillBugTheGreat 5 points a year ago

KReeeon? [translated: 6-7?]

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TheObviousSolution 6 points a year ago

I'm sorry, I don't accept multiplication from any base other than base 13.

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Makeshift 6 points a year ago

I knew it had relation to 42! I just got the how wrong!

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lugal 6 points a year ago

!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

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KingOfTheCouch 5 points a year 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!

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Vincent 4 points a year ago

Holy shit.

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RotSteinFinke 4 points a year ago

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?

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moody 3 points a year ago

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.

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lugal 4 points a year ago

Reminds me of when I said in school "some people put even things like 6x7 into their calculate" which was intended as an indirect 42 joke and someone said "it's 42" as a joke, not realizing it really is

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And009 3 points a year ago

Avocato?

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Tattorack 1 point a year ago

Kinda looks like him, doesn't it?

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And009 1 point a year ago

Family in alternate universe. Little Cato is good in school.

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agamemnonymous 3 points a year ago

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

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Nemoder 3 points a year ago

Love the new facial expressions! Perhaps she has been influenced a bit by merrivius' elf comic?

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SpaceCowboy 2 points a year ago

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

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

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ceenote 2 points a year ago

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Comrade_Spood 1 point a year ago

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Psythik 0 points a year 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.

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*� Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 🖐) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 🖐) will be removed.
*�‍☠️ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
  Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]
*� Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.

Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

Jago
Stonetoss
GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

Web Accessibility

Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Markdown - Links / Images

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

Web of Links

!linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
!memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)

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