What’s the meaning of 42? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers
MagnyusG@lemmy.world 2 months ago
all the older ones at least had some kind of meaning behind them, this new shit is actual brainrot.
recentSlinky@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s the answer
Thaurin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But what is the question?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That is the real question!
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It was Jackie Robinson’s number
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
we’ve been over this what is six times nine
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months 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
Thaurin@lemmy.world 2 months 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?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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?”
hoppolito@mander.xyz 2 months 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.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I’d like to add that that’s called a shibboleth :)
Thaurin@lemmy.world 2 months 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.”
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
23 was before my time, but it is 1/3 of 69, so there’s that.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Ni
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Ni’s NaN though and they no longer say it.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
23 is from the movie of the guy escaping from the number 23 I think?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you. I didn’t know what 23 was about
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh shit I forgot that movie, that was a Jim Carrey movie wasn’t it
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I think so
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.
Tower@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
What’s funnier than 24?
25
tyler@programming.dev 2 months ago
67 is the police code for a homocide. Kids just didn’t understand it and thought it referred to something else.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought that’s 187
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In California it’s 187
tyler@programming.dev 2 months ago
That might just be California. In standard “10” police codes, it’s 67. www.police1.com/…/police-codes-VqFqvwMyjl6GES0f/
matti@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
187 is homicide, yes, but it says there 67 is homocide. You’re welcome.
tyler@programming.dev 2 months ago
Thanks. Fucking ios keyboard gets worse every day.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Okay boomer
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s the children who are wrong
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 2 months ago
Shwam.
Doo.
Two and helf.
Scheven.
Schfourteen-teen.
Shwenty One.
Shwenty-Seven and Helf
27
37
WHAT YOU SAY?!!
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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