Title text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/
163 Comments
hOrni@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 262d
For millennials, like me: 1337 means "LEET" which is short for "Elite".
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 200 pts · 262d
Sorry, what? I'm a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.
hoppolito@mander.xyz · 99 pts · 262d
I was going to say, I think the perpetuation of leetspeak and most of its use falls squarely into the millennial generation's early 90s into the early 2000s.
Devial@discuss.online · 1 pts · 262d
grue@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 262d
What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
davidagain@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 262d
Nope. Source: am gen X.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 262d
Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 262d
That's the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 261d
Sorry to hear that, gramps!
(Am also Gen X. Sigh...)
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 261d
If you're GenX and no one has called you pops before you have lived a Sheltered life
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
This is a fair point. I'm a programmer and this kind of banter is not super common in my workplace. We are all a little bit odd in our own ways.
veroxii@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 262d
Yeah it was common on BBSes late 80s at least. Also am gen X.
chunes@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 262d
People get confused because leet speak had a resurgence around 1997 or so.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
Y2K
davidagain@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 262d
I remember it well.
The newspapers were apoplectic about the coming millennium bug Armageddon (hospital equipment was all going to crash because programmers encoded a date as two digits to save what was then rather sparse memory and storage space, and everyone was going to accidentally become of negative age and all timers would temporarily give very wrong answers.
COBOL programmers: there's a serious issue with banking and other business systems and we need to concentrate on this above above other issues to resolve it
Managers and newspapers: ARMAGEDDON!
COBOL programmers: we've got this.
Newspapers: nobody is doing anything about it! Armageddon!
COBOL programmers: It's a lot of work but we're cracking on, we've been working at it a while and it's going to be tight and we're going to need to put in some overtime, but really, we've got this.
Newspapers: OH FUCK LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CRASH
Millienium dawns. Some slight issues remain. Most important systems already patched and fine. Society does not crash.
Newspapers: There was no millennium bug after all!
COBOL programmers: no, there was, but we fixed it like we said we needed to and then we did. Boy, that was hard work.
Newspapers: It was ALL A HOAX.
COBOL programmers: no, it was a problem and we fixed it.
Newpapers: CELEBRITY WOMAN WEARS DRESS.
COBOL programmers: we just see the world differently, I guess. Can I retire early with all this emergency business critical overtime money?
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
Ahahah I experienced only the media narrative, and it did play out exactly as you described it.
Of course now it comes to reason that many people were actively working to fix the problem, but they never really explained that part on TV.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 260d
Lol no, they did not!
NERDS WORK VERY HARD INDEED AND FIX BUGS IN MASSIVE NUMBERS OF SYSTEMS doesn't sell papers.
For that matter, neither does TEENAGERS WORK NIGHT AND DAY IN UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF REVISION AND EXAM PREPARATION AND BREAK PREVIOUS SUCCESS RECORDS AGAIN BECAUSE TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS ARE GRADED AS FAILING UNLESS RESULTS RISE CONTINUOUSLY. Can you tell I have friends in the teaching profession?!
remon@ani.social · 1 pts · 262d
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 66 pts · 262d
I'm confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already
hOrni@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 262d
It seems, I'm on the older side.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
if you're in your 40s and don't know this i'm worried.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 261d
It's been around since the 1980s. If you didn't know it it's not because you're a millennial, it's because you weren't part of the right subcultures when you were young / teen / 20s.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 50 pts · 262d
1337 h4x0r
qbus@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 262d
Hack the planet
tensorpudding@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 262d
Millenials pwnd the n00bs with the best of the genX back in the day, but I think leetspeak was a lot more niche than say 67 is, it was very gamercoded/nerdcoded when that wasn't cool.
Source: am millenial who had a leetspeak AIM handle back then
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 262d
back when the internet was not cool
wavebeam@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 262d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
oh they had designers then
gangdinesout@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
Yeah, I had my Facebook set to leetspeak back in the day when it was restricted to college students. Of course, Zuckerborg was still a POS and I got rid of my Facebook ages ago
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 26 pts · 262d
Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi · 75 pts · 262d
84CK P41N
Sabata11792@ani.social · 10 pts · 262d
D0/\/'7 m4k3 f|_|/\/ 0f /\/\y 84(kmorphballganon@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 262d
I can confirm you can in fact get back pain before the age of 40
callouscomic@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 262d
Batman can confirm too.
Source: Knightfall.
KENNY_LOGIN_LILLIAN@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 262d
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 262d
Had a friend who wrote his french oral presentation out in 1337, he was allowed notes but not the word for word presentation. He showed the teacher beforehand, she said that's fine, looks like gibberish.
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 262d
I did that too, but back then it was called Backtrack Linux. I bought a special Atheros chipset WiFi card for my laptop's PCMCIA slot. The built-in 802.11b WiFi card worked under Linux but only by using the Windows ME driver in NDISWrapper, which didn't support promiscuous mode.
The Atheros chipsets could be configured (by flashing the firmware with a blob I got from a BBS, if I recall) to capture the traffic from nearby wireless networks. In particular, I wanted to pick up the signal from when a device first connects. There was a bug in Windows XP that could cause the WiFi to drop briefly, then promptly reconnect. By triggering that bug over and over I could capture a lot of reconnect packets in a short time frame.
Then I'd save the data to a big file and pipe it to Aircrack and extract the Wired Equivalent Privacy password.
I was a 1337 H4XX0|2 B-)
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Well, that's how the tutorial said it would work anyway. I actually never could get enough packets captured. The signal strength was too low :::
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 2 pts · 262d
Just to toss this in there, it totally wasn't a bug, you were sending a deauth packet to force them to reconnect then recapturing their auth sequence until you had enough packets to crack the WEP key. A pretty fun demo back then was to setup a wireless bridge between an open public network and a rogue AP (usually we'd just use a pcmcia WiFi card bridge to the internal WiFi adapter); then (due to pretty much no https anywhere), you could follow peoples browsing habits, log into their MySpace/LiveJournal/DeadJournal/GeoCities/etc (passwords were pretty commonly passed in plaintext), etc.
It was never done nefariously, but allowed us to learn a lot.
four@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 262d
Same, but I was 15 like 15 years later lol
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 262d
I know it just means you aren’t familiar with it but it’s funny you picked the millennial one as the one you had to explain to millennials.
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 262d
Also for geeky Gen X
Valmond@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 262d
Y35!
wieson@feddit.org · 76 pts · 262d
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 262d
6'7" is a non integer measurement.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 262d
It’s got nothing to do with height. It’s a Chicago police code for murder. The rapper whose song this was taken from is from Chicago and the the context in which it appears in those lyrics make it clear it’s also about murder.
The 6’7” thing was made up by people trying to find reason or rhyme as to why a shibboleth they didn’t know would be said at a basketball game and inventing that it had to be connected to the height of one player.
Deebster@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 259d
Skrilla is from Philadelphia, where the police apparently don't use 10-67, but it's "Report of Death" in some areas so this still seems the most likely explanation.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 258d
Sorry, you’re right. Philadelphia
Trev625@sopuli.xyz · 56 pts · 262d
What about Schfifty-Five?
hOrni@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 262d
Three fiddy?
showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 13 pts · 262d
Tree-fiddy came so close to making the list I think but it feels right that it didn’t.
Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 262d
Shiggity Schwat
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 262d
Girlfriend's age?
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 262d
My IQ
wolfrasin@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 262d
Fourteen-teen
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 262d
Vengefu1Tuna@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 262d
I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit:
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 261d
23 also independently came to prominence with the 23 enigma, originating with William S. Burroughs and popularized by ‘The Illuminatus! Trilogy’ and ‘Principia Discordia’. It postulates that the number 23 appears to have significance suspiciously often.
redwattlebird@lemmings.world · 30 pts · 261d
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 261d
Oh, that's easy to remember!
blujan@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 261d
I think it's more of a 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3
el_abuelo@programming.dev · 9 pts · 261d
I've had a bit of a tumble
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 262d
Missing "about three-fitty"
the_trash_man@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 262d
Tree fiddy
elephantium@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
Dammit Loch Ness monster...
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 261d
true I misspelled that :/
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 262d
I'm not a mathematican, but
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 262d
Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.
31 is funny in Turkey.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 262d
Schfifty-five.
ksigley@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
Shiggity shawh
anas@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 261d
twennyone
Techranger@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 261d
You stoopid
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 261d
Where's 3.50?
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 261d
Get outa here ya lock ness
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 261d
It was about that time that I noticed that sweet little verilyfemme was a three story tall crustacean from the Mesozoic era!
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 261d
It was about that time....
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 262d
42 is undeniably the funniest number
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 261d
Sorry for the inconvenience.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 262d
If you're gonna include 23 skidoo... You should include being at sixes and sevens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens
67... Is very very old British slang for wrecked/confused, at odds, or hysterical.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
Dressed to the nines no less.
We better 86 it with all this numbers business tho.
Deebster@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 259d
I think some will still understand it, although I can't remember the last time I heard anyone use it.
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
Vague Austin Powers memory somewhere...
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 262d
“Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 262d
58,008 clearly wins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG3Y0npvS5c
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 262d
That took me so long to figure out, I'm embarrassed
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 262d
Women and men love it!
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 262d
Needs to add my favorite number: 8647
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 262d
and 1312
Guillermosaenz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 262d
67 sneaking onto the ‘funny numbers’ list is hilarious—teens are basically a standards committee now.
yellowbadbeast@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 261d
Bot account? Comments seem like your average "short and humorous response" bot.
anas@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
Definitely a bot, not sure what the point of them is on Lemmy.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 261d
6-7 is an under 10 thing. By the time you're 12, it's stupid.
nomorebillboards@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
Nah, even early 20s do it here.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 261d
Maybe not a teen thing, but among children I think "because 789" could bring 789 into the discussion.
Moolam@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 261d
That only works in English though and while it does have a pun, I dont see it gaining any cult status...
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
1337 also only works in English.
The cult status is a good point, though.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 260d
What are you on about. It's shortened from "elite." You think that only works in English?
Really?
Afrikaans:elite Akan:nnipa atitiriw Albanian:elite Amharic:ልሂቃን Arabic:نخبة Armenian:էլիտար Assamese:অভিজাত শ্ৰেণী Aymara:élite ukax mä jach’a uñacht’äwiwa Azerbaijani:elit Bambara:elite (jamanatigiba). Basque:elitea Belarusian:эліта Bengali:অভিজাত Bhojpuri:अभिजात वर्ग के लोग के Bosnian:elita Bulgarian:елит Catalan:elit Cebuano:elite Chichewa:osankhika Chinese (Simplified):精英 Chinese (Traditional):精英 Corsican:elite Croatian:elita Czech:elita Danish:elite Divehi:އެލައިޓް އެވެ Dogri:अभिजात वर्ग Dutch:elite Esperanto:elito Estonian:eliit Ewe:ame ŋkutawo Filipino:elite Finnish:eliitti French:élite Frisian:elite Galician:elite Ganda:abakulu Georgian:ელიტა German:Elite Goan Konkani:अभिजात वर्ग Greek:αφρόκρεμα Guarani:élite rehegua Gujarati:ભદ્ર Haitian Creole:elit Hausa:fitattu Hawaiian:elite Hebrew:עִלִית Hindi:अभिजात वर्ग Hmong:cov neeg tseem ceeb Hungarian:elit Icelandic:Elite Igbo:ndị isi Iloko:elite ti Indonesian:elite Irish:mionlach Italian:elite Japanese:エリート Javanese:elit Kannada:ಗಣ್ಯರು Kazakh:элита Khmer:វរជន Kinyarwanda:intore Korean:엘리트 Krio:elit dɛn Kurdish (Kurmanji):elît Kurdish (Sorani):نوخبە Kyrgyz:элита Lao:ຊັ້ນສູງ Latin:electi Latvian:elite Lingala:elite ya bato ya lokumu Lithuanian:elitas Luxembourgish:elite Macedonian:елита Maithili:अभिजात वर्ग Malagasy:sangany Malay:elit Malayalam:വരേണ്യവർഗം Maltese:elite Maori:rangatira Marathi:अभिजन Mizo:elite te an ni Mongolian:элит Myanmar (Burmese):အထက်တန်းစား Nepali:कुलीन Northern Sotho:maemo a godimo Norwegian:elite Odia (Oriya):ଅଭିଜିତ Oromo:elite jedhamuun beekama Pashto:اشراف Persian:نخبه Polish:elita Portuguese:elite Punjabi:ਕੁਲੀਨ Quechua:elite nisqa Romanian:elită Russian:элита Samoan:tagata maualuluga Sanskrit:अभिजात वर्ग Scots Gaelic:mionlach Serbian:елита Sesotho:phahameng Shona:elite Sindhi:اشرافيه Sinhala:ප්රභූ Slovak:elita Slovenian:elita Somali:akhyaarta Spanish:élite Sundanese:élit Swahili:wasomi Swedish:elit Tajik:элита Tamil:உயரடுக்கு Tatar:элита Telugu:ఉన్నతవర్గం Thai:ผู้ลากมากดี Tigrinya:ኤሊት ዝበሃሉ ምዃኖም ይፍለጥ Tsonga:va xiyimo xa le henhla Turkish:seçkinler Turkmen:elita Ukrainian:еліта Urdu:اشرافیہ Uyghur:سەرخىللار Uzbek:elita Vietnamese:ưu tú Welsh:elitaidd Xhosa:abaphezulu Yiddish:עליט Yoruba:olutayo Zulu:elite Hebrew:עִלִית Javanese:elit
I'm not gonna format that but as you can see there's quite a few languages which use essentially the same word, and thus it works quite as well.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 245d
It's still language specific and most of these wouldn't work.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 245d
It's not specific to a language and most PIE languages and even non-PIE euro languages use a version of "elite."
English didn't come up with the word, you know?
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 261d
Further cementing that there is an xkcd for everything.
Lightsong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 262d
Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there's no good direct translation for this)
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 261d
Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?
Lightsong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
Hmm, it's hard to think of good resources for this. It's just kinda part of community. You could google asl slang and look around in YouTube or something. Or learn asl (or your country's sign language) and join the community.
Found a link with a short quip about 258 lol
https://258hub.ca/about/
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 238d
I don't get the 258 and 84 one, also deaf.
Lightsong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 238d
258 = very interesting. 2 being v, you sign "very", and then using 5 into 8 from ahead of your face/nose area for "interest" sign.
And for 84, try and sign it kinda side way. Kinda like "terrible" sign, but you would say it after crazy or whatever happened.
Like "oh really? 84!"
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 237d
Ah then it's probably a different sign language, mine does not do it like that.
Lightsong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d
I was referring to ASL, what's your sign language?
Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 262d
Tree fiddy
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 262d
They left out 86 and the more recent variant 8647
shalafi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
8675309
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 262d
I'm still disappointed that 27 never managed to get on this list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-7CqYFi64
anas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
That’s right, I’m Toilet.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
because it's a sad number. only depression really wants to join the 27 club
ksigley@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
There really is an xkcd for everything.
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 261d
They forgot 37.
Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 261d
My girlfriend acquired 37 limes In a row?!!
axexrx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
Try not to acquire any more on the way to the parking lot!
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
Head-In-Fridge
Cnote5@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
Evotech@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 262d
It’s in the panel
Cnote5@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
Doh!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 261d
8647
Alenalda@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 261d
231, twenty three is number one!
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 261d
I mean. I'm filled with nostalgia hearing that, but is it a funny number?
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 262d
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 261d
1 hehe
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 261d
Why is 二百五 (250) not on there lol
fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 261d
2137
MagnyusG@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 262d
all the older ones at least had some kind of meaning behind them, this new shit is actual brainrot.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 262d
Some kind of meaning behind them, huh?
Let me ask you something.
Can you count...
All the way...
To shfifty-five?
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 262d
Shwam.
Doo.
Two and helf.
Scheven.
Schfourteen-teen.
Shwenty One.
Shwenty-Seven and Helf
27
37
WHAT YOU SAY?!!
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 262d
I have said "schfourteen-teen" about once per week for the past 20 years
...I'm not sure anyone has ever gotten the reference
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 262d
But this isn't even a fair comparison because that's literally a whole ass song with an animation compared to a dumb kid in some viral video saying six or seven
recentSlinky@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 262d
What's the meaning of 42? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 262d
Thaurin@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 262d
But what is the question?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 262d
That is the real question!
pimento64@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 262d
It was Jackie Robinson's number
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
we've been over this what is six times nine
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 262d
What did 23 mean? I thought the post was pointing out it meant nothing? 69 is a position, 420 smoke weed, boobs, 42 was a nonsense joke that meant nothing as well. They just defined it as the meaning of life for no reason from what I know.. so 23, and 67 seem about the same, running closely behind 42
Thaurin@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 262d
42 is from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. They built an enormous computer called Deep Thought that was the most powerful ever built to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The computer, after 75 million years of processing, came up with 42. The confused crowd that gathered to hear the answer did not understand. Turns out, 42 is the correct answer, but what is the question?
So after that, they decide to build another computer, which is planet Earth, to figure out the question.
It was still calculating when it was destroyed by the Vogons to make space for a hyperspace bypass.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 262d
Yeah I remember that, saying 42 is the answer to everything was what I called nonsense, as I could just as easily say 42 meaning everything is is the product you get from, 6 7 (meaning nothing). Poof, now everything is a multiple of nothing, and at the end of the day none of it made any sense or had any meaning
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 262d
Funny enough, there's a point in a later book in the series where they suggest the "ultimate question'" that 42 is an answer to could be "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 262d
Which works in base 13!
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 262d
Im 93% sure that 6*9 doesnt equal 42 in base 6227020800
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
which, when a mathemagician occasionally asked adams about it, he would respond along the lines of "oh fuck"
hoppolito@mander.xyz · 21 pts · 262d
Additionally, while technically imbued with 'meaning', even the number 420 itself is somewhat meaningless and was originally used to delineate those who knew from those who don't. It's just that it got famous enough that we now almost all know.
In that sense I would argue it filled more or less the same function as 67.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 262d
I'd like to add that that's called a shibboleth :)
Thaurin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
I’ve heard it said that 420 referred to the time 4:20 pm, when a group would come together to smoke, but that sounds contrived.
420 can also refer to the birth date of Adolf Hitler, which makes 420 a bit darker than just “haha, smoke.”
toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 262d
23 was before my time, but it is 1/3 of 69, so there's that.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 262d
Ni
0x0@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 262d
Ni's NaN though and they no longer say it.
TrillianAstra@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 262d
Japanese would argue otherwise, 二 is certainly a number.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 262d
23 is from the movie of the guy escaping from the number 23 I think?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 262d
No
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
davidagain@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
Thank you. I didn't know what 23 was about
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
Oh shit I forgot that movie, that was a Jim Carrey movie wasn't it
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 262d
I think so
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 262d
That number is just an example of a specific category of absurd humor. It’s rare to see that sort of thing applied to numbers though. In other situations, we’ve all seen it. Just repeat any dumb thing a hundred times and suddenly it becomes funny. You could look at pretty much any TV comedy. Pick any decade, like 60’s, 70’s, 90’s or whatever. The rule is very simple: Just repeat it and it becomes funny at some point.
You could also say that the seeds of brain rot are older than we dare to admit. The 2020s just distilled it to its purest form yet.
Tower@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 262d
What's funnier than 24?
25
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
Ok boomer
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 262d
It's the children who are wrong
tyler@programming.dev · 3 pts · 262d
67 is the police code for a homicide. Kids just didn’t understand it and thought it referred to something else.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 262d
I thought that’s 187
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
In California it’s 187.
And now I gotta listen to sublime
tyler@programming.dev · 2 pts · 262d
That might just be California. In standard “10” police codes, it’s 67. https://www.police1.com/resources/articles/police-codes-VqFqvwMyjl6GES0f/
matti@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 262d
187 is homicide, yes, but it says there 67 is homocide. You're welcome.
tyler@programming.dev · 1 pts · 262d
Thanks. Fucking ios keyboard gets worse every day.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
What
hOrni@lemmy.world · -19 pts · 262d
NewDark@lemmings.world · 43 pts · 262d
Nazi dog whistles do not go on the fun numbers board.
grue@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 262d
That one isn't funny.
hOrni@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 262d