It means the plur1bus virus is taking hold.
The ASL sign for “maybe” is similar to the 6 7 hand gesture. My hard of hearing grandson is getting a lot of mileage out of that when he comes over. I’m tired of this now…
I disagree, it’s actually somewhere around 6-7th grade.
Woaaahhh!!
Since the thread’s been bumped anyway, I’ll post an update. In-N-Out has removed order 67 from their ticketing system. The article mentioned that they also removed 69, but IIRC they did that a long time ago. I guess order 68 is all by itself now.
Last night I was watching an old episode of The Mentalist. Long story, but a plot point was that the husband had 7 keys on his key ring and his wife had 6. I had to do a “6-7”, just to be annoying (playfully).
Until it gets 86ed.
No, the latest (and, yes, I’m serious) is 41.
In my experience, they never just say it out of the blue. But they’re hyper-attuned to whenever it does show up.
The other day, I had my students working on a sample problem involving logarithms. I told them to round the answer to two decimal places. Because I saw at a glance that the answer was going to be 5/3.
I could tell who had finished the problem by tracking the laughter moving around the room.
Here’s a quick 30-second video of a bunch of kids in the stands losing their minds when the basketball team scored 67 in a rout:
Dayum but that’s cute. I don’t know a better word for it. Kids can be so … kidly.
That is cute. Out of curiosity, how old are these kids?
A little help?
A logarithm that has the answer of 5/3 is the logarithm of 32 with base 8.
Converting 32 base 8 to base 10 is 26. Where does ‘6 7’ come in?
5 / 3 = 1.67
Ah. I actually did do the division and came out with 1⅔, or 1.66666666667. Didn’t click. I missed the ‘two decimals’ bit.
All except for Bart
Here’s a link to the best explanation of the origins of the term I’ve come across. This is from the podcast series Lexicon Valley. (The podcast was hosted by John McWhorter for several years, but now John is taking a break, so the originators Mike and Bob are back).
Short version: 67th street in Philadelphia is included in song by a rapper named Skrilla → A highly rated high school basketball player named Taylen Kinney (and fan of Skrilla) makes a video rating a Starbucks drink “6 7” → finally it goes viral, when a random middle schooler named Maverick Travilian makes a video (while watching an average school basketball game) and says it, not really referencing anything in particular other than the Kinney video (the connecting thread simply being “basketball”).
It’s fun until someone gets hurt:
Much as the Columbine High School massacre, the Deepwater Horizon explosion, and the birth of Hitler all happened on 4/20.
So it sounds like it really did get started as the new word for “meh”. “How’s the coffee? It’s 6 7. Kinda bland.”
But then it just turned into a fun gag where folks (kids mostly) go wild when the new “meh” happens to be mentioned in other contexts. And being two of the 10 digits, “6 7” will occur rather more often than say “meh-taphysics”.
Kind of like how Gomez Addams goes wild when Tish speaks French. It’s fun just because it’s pointless and it’s pointless because it’s only fun.
Algebra II, so mostly 10th and 11th grade.
And yes, the problem was log8(32), but they were doing it via the change-of-base formula, so they were going to get a decimal answer.
Eh, that one caught on mostly because those two had the best on-screen chemistry of any romantic couple in the history of screens.