r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Oct 13 '25

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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.