Jon Stewart had a good bit on this. "It's not 6/6/6, it's 6/6/06. In fact, it's not even that, it's 6/06 in the year 2006. ...It hasn't really been 6/6/6 since July 6th in the year six. And back then, they weren't calling it the year six."
...it was funnier when he did it.