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transcript:
cat mum: what's 6 times 7?
cat boy (making faces): 6 7!!!
cat mum: hilarious, as always. but actually ...?
cat boy: 42
cat mum: 6 x 7 - 6 7 - is 42?!
cat boy: yeah ... so?
cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!
cat boy: daddy! mommy's being weird again!
cat dad: aww, you see son, - your mommy is just a huge dork!
cat mum: history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes!

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

6+7=13

13!

It's everywhere!

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

What does 6,227,020,800 (=13!) have to do with anything? /j

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 9 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

I'm out of the loop. The 42 reference I get, but the 67 reference I don't. Please release me from my suffering.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 points 13 hours ago
[–] RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn't it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 2 points 8 hours ago

No, IIRC Arthur was trying to rearrange letters to figure out the question, but the closest he got was something like "What is six times nine?" which is definitely not 42.

[–] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I knew it had relation to 42! I just got the how wrong!

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago

!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Reminds me of when I said in school "some people put even things like 6x7 into their calculate" which was intended as an indirect 42 joke and someone said "it's 42" as a joke, not realizing it really is

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 12 hours ago
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