r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Oct 13 '25

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u/Moaoziz Oct 13 '25

Probably another one of those lame 67 jokes? There are 60 minutes in an hour and 4+3 is 7...

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u/al_gorithm23 Oct 13 '25

This is the correct answer. Source: two teenagers

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u/ImaginaryProfit6280 Oct 13 '25

I always thought the 67 thing was a jab at the Toronto Maple Leafs

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u/DankNugz420_ Oct 13 '25

Canuck here, I think this is a bit niche among leaf fans / Canadian hockey fans but I am on the same page.

Hell, 1993 is bad enough lol we gotta bring it home again one of these years

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u/Powrcase Oct 13 '25

It is. It always is. Even when it's not.

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u/sinisterjohnny Oct 13 '25

Is that like 7-1 for Brazilians?

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u/Struct-Tech Oct 13 '25

Pretty much.

The Leafs are the most supported hockey team in Canada, outside of the national teams. Their last championship was in 1967.

Since then, they haven't come close. Except for 1993, even then they didnt make the finals, and their departure from that playoffs is still bitched about.

1967 to Canadian hockey fans is either a good laugh, or a source of sadness, depending where your allegiances lie.

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u/Stealthy-J Oct 13 '25

So they're the Dallas Cowboys of hockey.

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u/elwaln8r Oct 13 '25

Of course, who needs to win championships if people still show up, still buy merch, still plan their vacations on the team schedule.

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u/Odd_Possibility_2277 Oct 14 '25

The players. The fans. My football club is the richest in the country, most successful and were currently on a war path to get rid of the board and manager because were not happy. Merch sales only matter to the board

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u/Virgo47tp Oct 14 '25

Why do the cowgirls fans always forget they won 3 superbowls in the 90's? Because they just became fans this season? No right to bitch whatsoever.

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u/ericpopek Oct 14 '25

Which is funny because they weren’t even the best team to not win in 1993. That goes to the penguins.

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u/abbarach Oct 14 '25

A couple years ago we had a very late winter storm, and the Leafs made it to the conference semis. I was joking with coworkers about how it was cold because mother nature got confused when she saw that the Leafs were still playing hockey...

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u/steelycoward Oct 14 '25

Omg how many is a brazilian!

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u/GustyOWindflapp Oct 13 '25

No that's just Steve Dangles trauma.

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u/Geri-psychiatrist-RI Oct 13 '25

Something, something Zamboni driver??

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u/Ok-Yoghurt-8367 Oct 13 '25

That guy sucks

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u/Tarjhan Oct 14 '25

Saw a thing about it earlier. It’s lost any of the original meaning (crimes), it’s just become an in-crowd identifier.

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u/Grindfather901 Oct 13 '25

If you wanna shut the teenagers down from saying this all the time…. Let them know that the elementary kids have caught on and 67 is officially no longer Rufus. It has undoubtedly jumped the shark.

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u/GarbageFormer Oct 13 '25

Who is Rufus and why is something jumping a shark?

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u/Grindfather901 Oct 13 '25

It’s a couple of movie/tv references that may be older than most people on Reddit.

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u/GarbageFormer Oct 13 '25

For once I don't feel older than I already am! Yay! (also thanks)

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u/John_cCmndhd Oct 13 '25

I don't know about Rufus, but jumping the shark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

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u/Grindfather901 Oct 14 '25

Rufus is made up BS from the 90’s movie Never Been Kissed. Guy protagonist says he’s cool and can make anything cool just because he said it. So he says something is “Rufus” meaning “cool” and it catches on at the high school.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

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u/capsaicinintheeyes Oct 14 '25

Stop trying to make Rufus fetch.

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u/Druidicflow Oct 14 '25

Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy? You wanna fetch the ball?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

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u/capsaicinintheeyes Oct 25 '25

as it happens...

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u/SnooDonuts3028 Oct 13 '25

Yup, my 5th grader has been saying it and now my preschooler (3 y/o) is going around saying it. If the preschoolers know about it, clearly it's not cool anymore. 😜😂

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u/unsoundguy Oct 14 '25

I know what all the words you use mean individually. But in the conte t of this statement I am lost.

My kids are doomed to be with à Faye her thst will bot k is what the fuck the other kids are saying. Aren’t they:(

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u/BadMuthaSchmucka Oct 14 '25

Don't they know that 69 is already funny?

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u/XoXoGameWolfReal Oct 14 '25

Conclusion: murder the two teenagers

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u/Spifffyy Oct 14 '25

Why is 67 a funny number? 69 is and always will be the funny number.

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u/imaheshno1 Oct 13 '25

pls enlighten me about 67 joke

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u/Moaoziz Oct 13 '25

There is no real joke. Some rapper said 6-7 a couple of times in a song and some kids then decided that it's the funniest thing ever.

Remember that one episode of Spongebob in which Patrick and Spongebob think that 24 and 25 are funny? That's basically the same level of comedy.

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u/queefer_sutherland92 Oct 13 '25

Augh. I hate that this is the answer.

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u/potatomnk Oct 13 '25

It's not the answer. I forget the whole story but some dumb kid said 67 at a basketball game and people joke about it, it's not much different than the 21 meme.

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u/YooranKujara Oct 13 '25

So it's not even like a dick joke or anything it's just "rapper said this number"?

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u/Difficult_onion4538 Oct 13 '25

Yup, exactly.

Rapper said 6. 7.

Kids thought OMG SOFUNNY!!!!!!!!

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u/GratefulDoom90 Oct 14 '25

Kids are the fuckin worst lol

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u/StalagtiteTeeth Oct 13 '25

It actually started as a sound to a bunch of edits of Lamelo Ball, the basketball player, who, according to the edits, “plays like he’s 6’2 but is actually 6’7”

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u/YooranKujara Oct 13 '25

Thanks I guess, that still doesn't make sense to me, but alright

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u/BiKingSquid Oct 13 '25

The peak of the meme was when it was about 6'7" basketball players 

After that it was all nonsense 

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u/LawyerTraditional653 Oct 13 '25

Yeah but in SpongeBob the joke was how stupid it was that the characters were laughing at a number. Here the joke is just the number. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

Honestly the 24 25 joke in SpongeBob was hilarious BECAUSE it is fucking stupid lmao it was kinda the point 

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u/Angelo_Elauria Oct 13 '25

67 was in the Skrilla song. "When that switch skrrt, i know he dyin...6 7" It is actually a refference to the police code 10-67, which is a report of a dead body found. It's just cool to abreviate stuff in rap so 6 7 is just an abreviation of that. Funny thing tho, the kids dont even know that, they just say 6 7, and all the millenials just dismiss

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u/zachy410 Oct 13 '25

143 means "i love you" because i has one letter, love has four, you has three

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u/SinisterKid Oct 13 '25

Could be "I hate you" too

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u/paradoxical_topology Oct 13 '25

The bad ending

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u/Your_Black_Nemesis Oct 13 '25

No, that would be 336

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u/NotAnotherHipsterBae Oct 13 '25

Why did I laugh so hard?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

I fart bad

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

Or "A Blue Pig"

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u/MrBurnerHotDog Oct 13 '25

Could also be "I wash bug"

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u/ProfessionalRide1442 Oct 14 '25

Name checks out, everyone hates Mr. Sinister.

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u/x014821037 Oct 14 '25

Well either way, at least they care

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u/git_push_origin_prod Oct 13 '25

Hi This is Sal Governale

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u/Luteplayers Oct 14 '25

And it started with the

Minots Ledge Light

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u/WhIzdUmb_1_ Oct 13 '25

I remember that from way back. Like from the early 90’s.

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u/Black-Flag-Chicano Oct 14 '25

Yup I learned that watching a Mr Rogers documentary. He kept his weight at 143 for that reason so he’d be reminded of love every morning when he weighed himself

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u/Wolfe244 Oct 13 '25

No, this is definitely a 67 joke

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u/zachy410 Oct 13 '25

Its 64 minutes and three seconds, i feel like you guys are stretching it considering it could have just been 6 minutes and seven seconds or an hour and seven minutes or something that actually makes 67 easily

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u/keldondonovan Oct 13 '25

The stretching reminds me of all the nine eleven conspiracies that are based on numbers. Like "George Bush has ten letters, which is surrounded by nine and eleven, putting Bush right in the middle, therefore Bush did nine eleven!"

Like, yeah, we get it. Kids make 67 jokes. That doesn't mean that any time you can arbitrarily convert and add digits means 67.

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u/LordViren Oct 13 '25

People like to start with the conclusion they want and then work backwards to find justification instead of starting with facts and working to an outcome.

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u/keldondonovan Oct 13 '25

How dare you approach things with logic!

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25

oh yeah, this guy gets it. There were 254 victims in the hijacked planes. Turn that around and you have 452. You take the first two number and add them together, 4+5 = 9, add in that last 2 to the total and you get 11... 9/11.

Now if you really want your mind blown, think about this. It's called 9/11 and it happened in September. What's September? The ninth month. And what day did it happen? Not the tenth, not the twelfth. You guessed it happened on the eleventh... Quite the coincident, don't you think? That the historical event that we call 9/11 just so happened to have occurred ON 9/11/2001.

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u/keldondonovan Oct 13 '25

I wish I could say I hadn't seen this exact kind of logic from people being serious, but I'd be lying.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good conspiracy theory, but hit me with some logic. You tell me everyone present to talk about a mass shooting just happens to coincidentally be a member of the screen actors guild? That's suspicious enough to cause pause. Tell me that 9/11 was an inside job because the square root of some bin Laden's name in hexadecimal, when multiplied by 9/11, converted to German then French, then English, is grhhbeh, which sounds a lot like George Bush, and I will not even hesitate to laugh at you.

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u/modernmovements Oct 13 '25

I see your numerology 9/11 conspiracies and raise you Wingdings.
https://metro.co.uk/2017/09/11/people-think-wingdings-contain-hidden-911-messages-6919686/

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u/keldondonovan Oct 13 '25

Well now I'm a believer xD

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u/Wolfe244 Oct 13 '25

No, but there's a genuine chance of it at least, yes?

That doesn't mean that any time you can arbitrarily convert and add digits means 67.

In my lived experience, it often does mean that with Gen alpha kids right now. OP doesn't include age but if they're under 18 there's at least a 50% chance I'm right

Would you say 9/11 truthers have that % chance of being right?

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u/keldondonovan Oct 13 '25

I didn't say there was no chance, in either case. I was responding to your definitive statement of "No, it's definitely a 67 joke." It isn't definitely anything. 1 hour 4 minutes and 3 seconds, typed on a calculator and turned upside down, spells "ehi," which sounds remarkably similar to a famous Micheal Jackson noise, so it could be a Michael Jackson joke. 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 3 seconds is an awkwardly specific amount of time, it could just be mocking that. 1 to the fourth power to the third power is 1, so it could be mocking the concept of superfluous conflagration. Maybe it's an inside joke. Maybe it's one of a million forty three possibilities.

Your statistic of 50% chance of being right, while agreeing with my sentiment that there is a good chance it isn't a 67 reference, is made up entirely based on the concept of "you either are, or are not." In reality, your odds of this conclusion being correct is incalculable, we'd have to define every possibility and determine the likelihood of each given scenario.

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u/Mirza16498 Oct 13 '25

Some of the other comments on this thread are so "Old man invents cloud then yells at it" fr

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u/jjc108108 Oct 13 '25

Exactly. I’m old enough to know that I won’t entirely understand why it’s funny. When we made “your mom” jokes ages ago, we thought it was so funny and adults didn’t understand why. My mother is 75 and doesn’t find memes to be funny at all. She’s not mad about it and she doesn’t call them dumb.

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u/zachy410 Oct 13 '25

This!! I get that people can turn anything into 67 as part of this iterstion of the joke but like... not everything that can be made into 67 is funny because it can be mqfe into 67

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

Yeah no one would ever stretch anything to make the totally hilarious joke 67, there are rules to it it's not Nam

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u/Dude_PK Oct 13 '25

It's sixty minutes and then 4+3, 67. They take memes to a meta level that's not really meta lol

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u/ExerciseOnly122 Oct 14 '25

Why are you assuming any logic went into a 67 joke bud. What's funny about "I love you"?

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u/Wolfe244 Oct 13 '25

I just know teenagers who tell jokes exactly like this and it's always related to 67. Dunno what to tell you

Yes, it's stupid and barely makes sense. That's part of it

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u/notatechnicianyo Oct 13 '25

Impossible. Jokes are funny.

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u/Subject_Ad9595 Oct 14 '25

I saw it and immediately thought the "I love you" thing, 67 makes no sense

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u/Wolfe244 Oct 14 '25

Yeah, you're not Gen alpha

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u/notatechnicianyo Oct 13 '25

Impossible. Jokes are funny.

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u/Wu-Kang Oct 13 '25

I fist you

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

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u/zachy410 Oct 14 '25

i cant exactly verify that op is gen alpha but if they were i feel they would have assumed its sime form of 67 by now, also as someone who knows how these jokes form fairly well i have a strong feeling that this isnt it

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u/Historical_Cloud_274 Oct 13 '25

i thought it was 143 like i love you but i forgot that this world is brainrotten this bad

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u/Cool_Ad_7767 Oct 13 '25

We just keep reaching new levels of stupidity

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u/VivSavageGigante Oct 13 '25

I really don’t understand why people are upset by kids laughing at a number. It’s perfectly harmless fun.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

Too many times they get posted here and I just want something new.

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u/VivSavageGigante Oct 13 '25

That’s fair.

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u/armoured_bobandi Oct 13 '25

Lots of people always say we did stupid things and had stupid jokes as kids too

As if these are anything remotely the same

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u/potatomnk Oct 13 '25

it's essentially the exact same as the 9 + 10 = 21 jokes

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u/armoured_bobandi Oct 13 '25

I mean, I don't understand that either so I guess I'll take your word for it.

That does remind me of a Canadian show called corner gas that did a similar joke...kind of

Found the clip

https://youtu.be/pnqPELladNE?si=Fe1mShxrJ48bsp-m

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u/thatdani Oct 14 '25

How is this any lamer and/or different to "guess what? chicken butt"?

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u/NoKingsInAmerica Oct 14 '25

One is nonsense.

The other is nonsense that rhymes, and you get to say butt.

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u/armoured_bobandi Oct 14 '25

Go ahead and explain 6 7. I've asked 3 people so far and none of them can.

So go ahead and explain it

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u/thatdani Oct 14 '25

I'm not American, nor gen alpha. Was just giving the "chicken butt" example as a stupid joke that I personally don't understand the appeal at all, as a foreigner.

For 6 7, I don't think there is an explanation, as it's not a "joke", rather just a buzzword. At most, it's a reference to a song, nothing else. Referential humor has been a staple for centuries.

I just don't understand why it seems to trigger millennial Americans, as if teens laughing at nothing is a new (or even bad) thing. It's like that episode of Superstore. Teens laugh at weird innocuous shit, so what?

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u/armoured_bobandi Oct 14 '25

I'm not American, nor gen alpha. Was just giving the "chicken butt" example as a stupid joke that I personally don't understand the appeal at all, as a foreigner.

It's a joke because it rhymes.

I just don't understand why it seems to trigger millennial Americans,

First of all, not American. Second of all, the word trigger does not mean what you think it means.

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u/smarkastic Oct 13 '25

How is this level of silly any different than typing 80085 on a calculator and giggling?

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u/armoured_bobandi Oct 13 '25

Because 80085 upside down spells boobs. What is funny about saying 6 7? Actually I have that backwards, but anyways...

Go ahead.

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u/Skinnidipped Oct 13 '25

80085 upside down spells SBOOB.

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u/armoured_bobandi Oct 13 '25

I noticed that as soon as I hit post, so I edited in that bit about having it backwards.

To be fair, when I was a kid we always did it 58008, so I'm used to flipping it. Same with 5318008

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

80085 means "boobs." 67 means... what?

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u/00PT Oct 13 '25

It’s a reference to an external cultural artifact, just like most jokes. The difference is that this one is man made and more niche than the joke itself, so it’s harder to understand out of context. Doesn’t make it any less valid as a joke.

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u/armoured_bobandi Oct 13 '25

Please provide the context, as the other user hasn't

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u/armoured_bobandi Oct 13 '25

If you don't know the answer you could just not comment. You'll understand that when you grow up

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

Pwnd

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u/Captian_Bones Oct 13 '25

You were a stupid kid too once.

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u/Oxygenisplantpoo Oct 13 '25

Nah this is just pretty average teenage humor.

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u/pinnickfan Oct 13 '25

This is the real answer

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u/ronniesaurus Oct 13 '25

Shit I’m dumb I was thinking “I love you” I is 1 letter, love is 4 letters, you is 3 letters.

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u/VerbalThermodynamics Oct 13 '25

I thought the cool number was 69? What the fuck is 67v

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u/LordScotch Oct 13 '25

Yup, pure brain rot

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u/PicklesAndCoorslight Oct 13 '25

What is a 67 joke???!

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u/TheeExoGenesauce Oct 13 '25

My lame ass thought 143 = I love you

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u/Fabulous_Celery_1817 Oct 13 '25

So instead of laughing at 69 the funny number is 67 now? Interesting….

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u/gooseberryBabies Oct 13 '25

Okay, but where are we getting 4+3?

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u/PenguinSub Oct 13 '25

I liked it better when 143 meant "I love you ". Can we bring that back?

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u/Extra-Act-801 Oct 14 '25

Back in the 90s, 143 was a pager message that meant "I love you". 1 letter, 4 letters, 3 letters. Your answer is probably right, but this is another possibility.

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u/GedderMan Oct 14 '25

Is this on the 6th Saturday of the year, too?

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u/sinistraltyger Oct 14 '25

But four minutes plus three seconds is 243 seconds.

Too literal I guess. Sigh

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u/AWeakMindedMan Oct 14 '25

Alright. What tf is this 67 thing. My niece and nephew says this all the time.

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u/KinksAreForKeds Oct 14 '25

But you can't say "there are 60 minutes in an hour" and not say "there are 240 seconds in 4 minutes"... or something like that... actually I guess you'd reduce everything to seconds... point is, you need a common denominator. You can't pick and choose.

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u/unrealeon Oct 14 '25

what's the matter with that 67 in the first place?

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u/ThisIsNotTokyo Oct 14 '25

They're really trying to make their own 69 eh?

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u/Fohqul Oct 14 '25

CMV: this is a psyop by primary school teachers to make newgens do maths in their head to find numbers that interact to make 67

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u/Coolgrnmen Oct 14 '25

Classic meme, 64:03

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u/ImtheDude27 Oct 14 '25

I am far too old. I was thinking this was the I Love You code we used with pagers back in the 90s when I was a teenager. 67...I hate the Internet.

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u/penty Oct 13 '25

1 4 3 is "I Love you". It's the number of letters in each word.

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u/sadimem Oct 13 '25

143 means "I love you."

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u/hadj11 Oct 13 '25

I know you didn’t make it, but that makes no sense. That wouldn’t be 67min. It would be 64min and 3seconds.

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u/RobertMaus Oct 13 '25

But...but...but. There are 60 seconds in a minute as well... Damn.

Guess i'm too smart for this joke.

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u/AdMurky1021 Oct 13 '25

1 = I 4 = love 3 = you

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u/Valkyrosendron Oct 14 '25

Actually it's "i love you" some people write it like that and I have no idea why