Black Hole Sun and six-seven

My most recent post to mention a black hole and the Black Sun was "Strange is the night where Oreos rise" (April 18). Just weeks earlier, "Chester Bennington and King Hamlet" (April 3) discussed a Saxon Cross post called "Black Hole Sun" (June 2025), about the 1994 Soundgarden song of that name. The April 18 post also included this image:

The above was created as a reference to the old joke, "Why is six afraid of seven? Because seven ate nine." No Gen-Alpha kid would notice that, though; he would just see a giant six-seven, as in the annoying but ubiquitous meme (yes, even in Taiwan, and it's not just math teachers that are affected).

Early this afternoon, I had to spend a few hours waiting in Taichung, and so I figured I might as well get lunch while I was there. I walked to a nearby restaurant, and while I ordered, the song playing in the background was Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun."

After that, I taught my regular classes, and the kids' favorite pair of numbers kept coming up. In the first class, I happened to teach from p. 67 of the textbook, assigned p. 67 of a different book as homework, and administered a test on which no fewer than half of the students scored precisely 67%. I've never seen kids so delighted to get such a low score.

In the next class, comprised of older teens who one would have thought (erroneously) would be a bit more nihil-admirari about numbers, I taught pp. 6-7, and at the top of p. 7 was the heading "Questions 6 and 7." Yes, they broke out the hand gestures.

Sync fairies, don't even think about making this a recurring theme! I know I've patiently put up with plenty of rannygazoo from you lot, but there are limits.