G: If a teenager blurted “six seven?” (or “six-seven!”) and you’re an adult, here’s:

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✅ What you could say

• You might respond with something light and curious:

  “What’s that about — six-seven?”

• Or play along with good-natured curiosity:

  “Six seven — okay! Should I say something back?”

• Or simply ask:

  “Where did you hear that?”

That lets you engage without pretending to fully understand.

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🧐 What’s going on with the phrase

Here’s a breakdown of what the meme/slang means (or doesn’t):

• The phrase entity["meme", "6-7 (meme)", 0] (“six-seven”, “6-7”, “6 7”) is a viral slang term used especially by younger teens/tweens. citeturn0search2turn0search5turn0search0turn0search11
• Its origins:
  • The rap song entity["song", "Doot Doot (6 7)", 0] by entity["music_artist", "Skrilla", 0] (released around late 2024/early 2025) uses the lyric “6-7.” citeturn0search11turn0search0turn0search2
  • Also linked to basketball videos featuring entity["people", "LaMelo Ball", 0], who is 6 ft 7 in tall — so the numbers “6-7” map to his height. citeturn0search0turn0search5
• But — the important part — it doesn’t have a fixed, clear meaning. The consensus is it’s essentially nonsense or a meme for its own sake. citeturn0search2turn0search5
• It’s used in contexts like: someone says “six-seven” when the numbers 6 or 7 appear; or as a standalone shout; or with a hand-gesture (palms up & down) making fun of it. citeturn0search7turn0search5
• Schools are noticing it: teachers report it's disruptive in class, because when a teacher says something like “page 67” or “six or seven”, the kids shout “six-seven!” in response. citeturn0news16turn0news19

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🤷‍♂️ Why they might be saying it

• It’s part of “in-group” slang: kids using something that adults don’t understand, which can feel fun or rebellious. citeturn0news18
• It’s absurd on purpose — the humour is that it makes no sense and/or the adults are baffled. As one explanation put it: “the point is that it makes no sense.” citeturn0search5turn0search2
• It’s meme culture: repeating a phrase, remixing it, seeing who reacts.
• Sometimes used as a playful “flex” or just the latest trending phrase.

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🔍 So: when they say “six seven?”, how to interpret it

• Don’t assume it means something serious. It likely doesn’t.
• It could be the teen signalling: “I’m part of this joke/trend.”
• It might be a prompt for a reaction: “Say something back, get the joke going.”
• It may also just be random — used because it’s trending and absurd.

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If you like, I can pull up specific ways teachers have responded or what to say as an adult to engage (or ignore) the trend — would you want that? navlistRecent “six-seven” slang coverageturn0news19,turn0news18,turn0news16

G: That’s actually the perfect instinct.

The whole “six-seven” thing works because it’s absurdist call-and-response humor — a Gen Alpha echo of the “Deez Nuts” or “What are those?” era. The power move is not to demand meaning, but to match nonsense with nonsense.

Saying something like:

“Cincinnati hot plate.”
or
“Left-hand spaghetti.”
or
“Triangle Tuesday.”

…hits the same wavelength: unserious, confident, and clearly playing along without trying to decode it.

It tells them you get the meta-joke — that there isn’t one.

G: Exactly — “23 skidoo” (or your “23-skid-do” riff) is vintage nonsense, so it fits perfectly.

It has that same surreal rhythm as “six-seven,” just from a different century. Saying it back — deadpan, maybe with a mock-wise nod — would nail the tone: you’re in on the absurdity but playing it your own way.

That’s the generational equivalent of replying to “yeet” with “groovy.” You don’t try to join the trend — you cross the streams of nonsense.

G: Here’s a grab bag of nonsense phrases that have 1990s-kid energy — stuff that feels like playground surrealism rather than TikTok meme logic:

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🕹️ 90s-flavored absurdity

• “Cowabunga deluxe.” – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meets infomercial energy.
• “Purple monkey dishwasher.” – Classic Simpsons telephone-game nonsense.
• “Booyah grandma!” – Random Dexter’s Lab / Nickelodeon-era shout.
• “Radical salad bar.” – Feels like a Mountain Dew commercial gone feral.
• “Turbo nacho!” – Belongs on a Trapper Keeper.
• “To the extreme, banana dream.” – Ice Ice Baby + Lisa Frank.
• “Mega jam sandwich.” – No meaning, pure bounce.
• “Atomic wedgie deluxe edition.” – Playground chaos energy.

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🎮 More subtle, “adult-playing-along” versions

If you want to sound like you’re riffing, not competing:

• “Copy that, Captain Crunchwrap.”
• “Cool story, Sega Saturn.”
• “Whoa, that’s poggers … before poggers was a thing.”
• “Right on, slap bracelet.”
• “Sure thing, Snackwell.”

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TL;DR:
If they say “six-seven,” and you come back with “Purple monkey dishwasher,” you’ve both won the round.

G: Perfect framing — you’re talking about that weird middle era when random wasn’t yet a meme but still ruled lunch tables, AIM chats, and sketch shows.
Here’s a real list from roughly 1990–2005, all of which lived in that gray zone of quotable nonsense, slogan runoff, and cultural static:

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🌀 1990–1995: Saturday-morning chaos

• “Don’t have a cow, man.” – The Simpsons (you didn’t need context).
• “Cowabunga!” – Turtles, but used by everyone from skaters to nerds.
• “Eat my shorts.” – Bart again, but it outlived the show’s edge.
• “Whassup?!” – Budweiser ad turned universal scream.
• “Not!” – Wayne’s World sarcasm tag that infected everything.
• “As if!” – Clueless snob-core dismissal.
• “Talk to the hand.” – Universal deflection before emoji.
• “Bite me.” – Proto-snark before memes streamlined it.
• “Booyah!” – Cartoon, sports, and general exclamation overlap.

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💾 1996–2000: Early internet & cable weirdness

• “All your base are belong to us.” – First great internet mistranslation meme.
• “I am the great Cornholio.” – Beavis and Butt-Head’s finest gibberish.
• “Can I get a wut wut?” – R&B / hip-hop crossover call turned catchphrase.
• “You got served.” – From dance culture to playground insult.
• “Fo’ shizzle.” – Snoop-speak era; everyone used it wrong.
• “Whammy!” – From Press Your Luck, resurrected by Anchorman era irony.
• “Shwing!” – Wayne’s World again; meaningless except in tone.
• “Hakuna Matata.” – Used sincerely, sarcastically, and stoned.

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🧃 2001–2005: Post-random / pre-meme

• “Leeroy Jenkins!” – World of Warcraft raid chaos became shorthand for stupidity-with-conviction.
• “I like turtles.” – Local-news kid, internet gold.
• “The cake is a lie.” – Portal, but became general existential shorthand.
• “All up in my grill.” – Peak overuse, zero context required.
• “Foamy the Squirrel” / “Ill will press” lines – Early Flash animation absurdism.
• “End of ze world!” / “We’re all gonna die!” – Newgrounds-era nonsense.
• “Badger badger badger…” – Looping absurdity before TikTok loops existed.
• “Leekspin / Caramelldansen.” – Early internet’s musical gibberish.
• “Don’t tase me, bro!” – Viral before “viral” meant anything coherent.

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🧠 TL;DR:

That era’s nonsense was a mix of half-remembered TV slogans, misquoted internet loops, and randomly shouted ad jingles.
If you respond to “six-seven” with:

“All your base are belong to us.”
or
“End of ze world, okay bye!”
you’ll land right in that same absurd-but-somehow-culturally-grounded zone that defined 90s–early 2000s humor.