Do you remember making jokes about 69 when you were a kid? (Or maybe you still do...?)
So, I was mystified when the kiddos started laughing anytime I referred to 67. 67?!?
I was afraid to ask, but eventually I worked up the nerve. "Hey, what is this 6 or 7 thing all about?"
I did that a couple weeks ago, in the art class. And now that I know, I hear it everywhere. Seriously. Every. Where. All the kiddos refer to it. I hear it multiple times a day.
And because I'm a giving person, I thought you all might like to know about the current meme. (Because if I have to know...)
That's what started it. But what the kiddos are responding to...
So, yeah. If you're around any teens, say, "6 or 7". And watch their eyes light up. It's just so weird.
Jamie here: This is the first I've heard of all this!
ReplyDeleteIf you're not around teens, you wouldn't have heard it. So, as a public service, I present this to you.
DeleteFirst I've heard of it, too. Weird.
ReplyDeleteYou don't spend time around teens. There's no reason why you would have heard of it otherwise.
DeleteI just spent a delightful 10 minutes listening to Doot Doot for the first time. I spent most of the time googling words like boul and bipped and beglasse (which Google didn't even know). The only reference in the song I understood was baby shark, which probably means I'm pretty clueless. To be fair, the rap music I listened to in middle school didn't make a lot of sense then or now either. I think it's great you did some sleuthing. I would probably rap the baby shark part instead of 67, but that may cause some division! : D
ReplyDeleteUrban Dictionary. Whenever they come up with some term I'm unfamiliar with, I first go to Urban Dictionary (I believe it's just urbandictionary.com.) It rarely lets me down.
DeleteNew to me as well!
ReplyDeleteI figured.
DeleteInnocent and cute
ReplyDeleteNot when you're discussing something with a class, you ask a question, and someone has to respond, "six or seven". It gets very old, very fast.
DeleteThat's sad maybe? about the 67 kid being turned into a meme in and of itself, but maybe he likes it. So 67 basically means nothing, just a number, after starting out in a song as a street number, then a reference to the ht of a basketball player.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it pretty much means nothing. Only, now if you ask them a question and the answer "6 or 7" makes sense, even if that's not the answer, that's the answer you get.
DeleteOk.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the explanation!!
Looks like it can quite 'educative' if one spends time among teens!! Thanks for letting me know about Doot Doot and 6-7.
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I doubt it's reached as far as you, but now you can tell them what the American kids are saying.
DeleteIt's not just teens! My son works at an elementary school (K-5) and I asked him if he's heard it. All the time! Sometimes just for no reason, sometimes as a silly answer to anything asked. He says you probably heard "Chicken Jockey" too much, something about the Minecraft Movie. I remember a little rhyme in my elementary school days in 1968, about 69, but I don't think we knew what it was about. We may have jump-roped to it!
ReplyDeleteNo, I have not heard "Chicken Jockey", but I'll keep my ears open. But, yeah, not surprised the elementary kids are into it. I can only imagine how much worse it is there.
DeleteEach year there's something that catches on right now it's 6 7 . My grandson is 12 so I hear all the weird stuff from school when he comes over.
ReplyDeleteLast year at this time it was them saying "pumpkin" for no reason whatsoever. At least with this, the answer sorta makes sense in context.
DeleteOMG that is crazy, how one simple thing morphed in this huge...nothing! . What would these kids have done 30 years ago? This is happening just bc of social media!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAh, but that's how fads work. They are all over nothing, really. One thing that makes it tolerable for me is to be able to make fun of it with all of you folks.
Deletethat was me, Marina
ReplyDeleteI'm out of the loop.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first I've heard about it. I'm never current on fads.
ReplyDeleteYou're not up on the teenage slang? I'm shocked. Shocked, I say... Yeah, I figured no one knew about this, hence the post.
DeleteThis hasn't reached my part of the world yet.
ReplyDeleteI doubt it will. Just enjoy our discomfort from afar.
DeleteI remember the 69 jokes, and I have heard that the 67 thing is going around, however, I have not heard my grands using it. The prob with that sort of thing, the kids think they are so cool, like they have come up with something we did not think of, that they stand out, it makes them unique, but my thoughts, if they are following something someone else has started, therefore, not making them unique at all.
ReplyDeleteThese sorts of things come up every year, every generation. I kind of enjoy laughing about it.
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