# Social Spread of Slang Term “6-7” **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825 "2025-11-13T10:18:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/81 "2025-11-14T16:18:50Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Anytime, you hear a young person say 67, you should respond by singing _"-5309. Jenny, I got your number._ Hey, I didn’t know you kids liked that song." Even better if you mash up with Stacy’s Mom and Jessie’s Girl. > **[867-5309/Stacy's Mom/Jessie's Girl Mash-Up by Rick Springfield, Pacific...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DjhjDpL5r4%5C)** > > Rick Springfield performing 867-5309/Stacy's Mom/Jessie's Girl Mash-Up at Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, CA on August 15, 2024@RickSpringfieldOfficial #... ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/82 "2025-11-14T16:51:02Z")
I really didn’t know today’s kids were that easily amused. When do they usually say 6-7? Is it mostly just in the little videos? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/83 "2025-11-14T17:10:35Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Today I was teaching my third graders the game [All Ten](https://beastacademy.com/all-ten) (which, give it a try, it’s pretty fun and more challenging than you’d think). Whelp, showing that one to the boy. I think he’d love it. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/84 "2025-11-14T23:22:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > We need to fight back. > > Anytime, you hear a young person say 67, you should respond by singing _"-5309. Jenny, I got your number._ Hey, I didn’t know you kids liked that song." > > I guarantee this will kill 67 within a week. I admit, I just don’t get the desire for kids to not have things for themselves (that yes, sometimes try to exclude you/adults) that they enjoy and do you no harm. I’m sure kids think a lot of things you do are stupid and annoying, too, but they mostly don’t try to stop you from doing them…mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/85 "2025-11-15T00:00:27Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > I admit, I just don’t get the desire for kids to not have things for themselves (that yes, sometimes try to exclude you/adults) that they enjoy and do you no harm. I’m sure kids think a lot of things you do are stupid and annoying, too, but they mostly don’t try to stop you from doing them…mostly. [It’ll happen to you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/86 "2025-11-15T00:03:41Z")
> [@Nyvaak](#): > > That’s one of my favorite riddles to ask young kids. Recently, though, one of them surprised me. When I asked it, he replied, “because Six knew that Seven was after him.” I think that’s a way better answer. That, and 7 is a registered 6 offender. ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/87 "2025-11-15T02:49:39Z")
Ooh ! I like it. It’s just not a version I can tell to little kids. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/88 "2025-11-15T03:30:37Z")
Oh, and funny story… > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Anytime, you hear a young person say 67, you should respond by singing _"-5309. Jenny, I got your number._ Hey, I didn’t know you kids liked that song." > [@Telemark](#): > > Even better if you mash up with Stacy’s Mom and Jessie’s Girl. Just yesterday, I learned that not only is Jenny a prime, but she has an older twin sister: 8675309 and 8675311 are both prime. And I shared that fact with the other math teachers in our group chat. One of them responded with a link to that song, and another replied “He said 6 7!”. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/89 "2025-11-17T21:20:19Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/FaWljXP.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/FaWljXP.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/90 "2025-11-17T21:39:33Z")
Right as the “skibidi toilet” action figures hit Walmart too, sucks for them. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/91 "2025-11-17T21:42:00Z")
Can’t link, but there’s a cartoon showing the numbers 420 and 69 as bent-over old men with canes saying “We used to be hip, too!” ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/92 "2025-11-17T22:43:18Z")
I asked my 25 year-old and my 22-year-old about it, and they each told me that it “made them feel old”. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/93 "2025-11-17T23:05:10Z")
Did you strangle them? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/94 "2025-11-17T23:43:39Z")
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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/95 "2025-11-17T23:53:34Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I asked my 25 year-old and my 22-year-old about it, and they each told me that it “made them feel old” I’ve never been more \>\< at people I’ve never met in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/96 "2025-11-18T00:03:57Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Did you strangle them? 😉 > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I’ve never been more \>\< at people I’ve never met in my life. Kids trying on adulthood. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/97 "2025-12-11T14:24:25Z")
If a kid says ‘6-7’, reply with ‘4-2!’ That’s the answer. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/98 "2025-12-11T15:36:18Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I really didn’t know today’s kids were that easily amused. When do they usually say 6-7? Is it mostly just in the little videos? No, like literally any time they possibly can, in real life. The first time I was really exposed to it was during my niece’s birthday party this summer. She was opening gifts and we had a baseball game on in the background. Her younger cousins were “6-7!!!”-ing with delight any time either number showed up on the screen. It was pretty ridiculous but it made me chuckle. This week I was at a middle school orchestra concert and they had a raffle. Of the 4 ticket numbers that were called, TWO of them ended in 67 and the crowd went wild. So basically any time the words 6 or 7 are uttered, kids go nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/99 "2025-12-11T16:01:34Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I asked my 25 year-old and my 22-year-old about it, and they each told me that it “made them feel old”. My 14-year-old son says he’s “too old” for it. My 11 year-old loves it. So at least around here, that appears to be the dividing line - somewhere around 7th/8th grade. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/100 "2025-12-11T16:03:35Z")
Middle school - my 6 year old granddaughter said it to me over the weekend. She said she doesn’t know what it means, but kids at school are saying it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825.md?page=6)