My son was watching a Minecraft 6-7 You Tube video this morning. He’d already heard of it. So I guess it’s spreading to the kindergarten set. He has asked me what it means and has a hard time accepting that it doesn’t really mean anything.
None that I can see, given that the old saying is so very old. But it’s a curious coincidence.
I shudder to think what a numerologist would make of that coincidence.
The LA Kings have embraced the insanity for Kids’ night 
Great find; thank you. From xkcd: Funny Numbers. The hidden text behind that comic is appropriate to this thread too:
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.
I can’t believe this meme made it all the way to my five year old, but he in fact does say this all the time, with the hand motions and everything. I’m quite certain it has staying power because we hate it.
In light of that, he’s getting a 6-7 t-shirt for his sixth birthday. It points out that the next two years are 6-7 (2206-2007.)
Time-travel whiplash?
I hadn’t heard about the meme for the two last months this thread didn’t get any posts. I think it’s already dead and gone, and every kid who still uses it will be judged as “lame” by their friends.
I dunno, my kid’s YouTube videos still mention it a lot.
Whoops!
Speaking as a high school teacher, not yet. I think it might be on the decline, but it’s hard to tell.
All we nerdy old people should start using the phrase, thereby causing the kids to immediately shun it in horror.
Nah, let the kids have their fun. I saw a video of a little girl, maybe four years old, absolutely losing her shit over a sign in store with 6-7 on it, and it was adorable. You could tell she’d just discovered the concept of “cultural reference,” and it was blowing her tiny little mind.
It’s been great for my kid, honestly. He’s not the most socially adept so it’s good for him to feel like he’s in on something.
Okay, so what’s the term your kids put over your head. Or did you just mean they’re sick of it?
Saw “Jerry” live and he did a bit on how kids want “UP”: Wait up, hold up, shut up, Mom, let me stay… up!,
But their parents want them to settle down, sit down, keep it down, put that down!
Found it:
Much as George Carlin observed of baseball vs. football.
I’ve seen it on the decline except with kids 5 and younger. I can only speak about 5th graders and younger in our middle/working class community inside the DC Beltway. The last time I heard it from an older kid I said, “hmmm…this is the first time in a while I’ve heard that from anybody not in kindergarten or preK.” I didn’t hear it again that day. In the past week I haven’t heard it from anyone in the 5th and 2nd grade classes I’ve worked with. I heard it once or twice in a PreK class this week.
My 8-year-old still says in the particular way when he encounters the numbers together “in the wild,” often this is when he doing his math homework. It’s not some manic giggle fest and the associated hand movements are rare. It’s cute.
I’ve always been on the “let 'em have their fun” side. Like the XKCD implies, some numbers are funny. For example, I will always and forever pronounce 37 in the manner of Michael Palin’s constitutional peasant.
If I ever encounter 3,720 to 1 odds in real life I’ll lose my shit.
EDIT: Speaking of numbers, holy crap, it’s my 20th Doperversary!
They were hinting that tone it down had sexual connotations
As noted many times in many places over many years, anything has sexual connotations if you pronounce it with enough leer in your voice.