• BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone
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    5 days ago

    As a 38 year old man I feel I’m allowed to say the best two are still 8008135 and 1337.

    69 and >9000 are both etched into my brain though.

    Fun fact for many… “IT’S OVER 9000” was a translation error. It was meant to be 8000 as Vegetas max power output was 18k and so only Goku using Kaio Ken X3 was able to defeat him.

  • moonshadow@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Boobies

    Power level

    ???

    Elite

    Bush did it

    Weed

    Sexual reciprocity

    Police radio code for a body

    Private key for critical infrastructure

      • moonshadow@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        Police radio code in certain US cities to request assistance on discovery of a body. Rap slang referencing the same. Sports euphemism wherein a prideful victor requests said body management assistance for a defeated opponent or after a particularly triumphant maneuver. Viral tiktok of a child screaming the digits at a player during a game

        And now, whether for a moment or a generation, the reigning funny number.

        Like it or not ;)

      • JoshCodes@programming.devEnglish
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        6 days ago

        42 is from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and is the meaning of life. Problem is no one knows what question to ask to get the answer. Anyway nerds in the know laugh at this number.

        No idea about 47 unless they’re talking the agent from the hitman games?

      • nosuchanon@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything? 42.

        What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? 42.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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          6 days ago

          What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? 42.

          No that’s 6-7. Literally: multiplying 6x9=54, but 6x7=42.

            • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
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              5 days ago

              Actually, the reason the question is wrong is that in later books…

              spoiler

              Ford and Arthur go back in time to prehistoric Earth with the people from the Golgafrincham B Ark. They wind up killing off all the native humans so everyone from Arthur Dent’s Earth, Arthur included, are descended from all those Golgafrincham hairdressers, telephone sanitizers and middle-managers.

              • nosuchanon@lemmy.world
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                5 days ago

                Yes I remeber that part. I always though the golgafricians died off.

                Maybe that’s why the numbers were wrong.

                • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
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                  5 days ago

                  No, in the novel it’s the neanderthals who are dying off. Arthur is trying to teach them scrabble to help them compete with the Golgafrinchams. Not sure how that was supposed to help the neanderthals, but good on him for trying to do something. Anyway, Ford points out that it’s too late to help them. By coming to Earth at all, they screwed up the program. There was no way Earth would have given the right answer even if it wasn’t destroyed by the Vogons when it was.

                  Earth was supposed to be the greatest supercomputer ever, but some of it’s critical components were ripped out and replaced with middle-managers and telephone sanitizers. Ford supposes that that’s why the answer and question don’t match. Others have suggested that Arthur actually pulled the right question with the scrabble tiles and the mismatch between the two actually shows there is a fundamental flaw in the universe. The reason everything is so screwy is that the universe, at the most fundamental level, just doesn’t make sense.

                • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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                  5 days ago

                  I always though the golgafricians died off.

                  They did, they deported all the telephone sanitisers and then they died from some infection they caught from unsanitised telephones.