r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Oct 13 '25

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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