Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers

MagnyusG@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some kind of meaning behind them, huh?

  Let me ask you something…

  Can you count…

  All the way…

  To shfifty-five?

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  • codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shwam.

    Doo.

    Two and helf.

    Scheven.

    Schfourteen-teen.

    Shwenty One.

    Shwenty-Seven and Helf

    27

    37

    WHAT YOU SAY?!!

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    • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have said “schfourteen-teen” about once per week for the past 20 years

      …I’m not sure anyone has ever gotten the reference

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  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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• recentSlinky@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s the meaning of 42? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

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  • WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s the answer

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    • Thaurin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But what is the question?

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That is the real question!

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  • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was Jackie Robinson’s number

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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  • Thaurin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    42 is from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. They built an enormous computer that is the most powerful ever built to calculate the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. The computer, after many 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?

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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, more like 6 7 being nothing. Poof, now everything is a multiple of nothing, and at the end of the day none of it made any sense.

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      • melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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 is “What do you get if you multiply six by nine?”

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  • hoppolito@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d like to add that that’s called a shibboleth :)

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    • Thaurin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.”

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    23 is from the movie of the guy escaping from the number 23 I think?

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh shit I forgot that movie, that was a Jim Carrey movie wasn’t it

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I think so

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

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      • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you. I didn’t know what 23 was about

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    23 was before my time, but it is 1/3 of 69, so there’s that.

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    • bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ni

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ni’s NaN though and they no longer say it.

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• Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Tower@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s funnier than 24?

    25

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• tyler@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  67 is the police code for a homocide. Kids just didn’t understand it and thought it referred to something else.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought that’s 187

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In California it’s 187

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What

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