Today is 4/20

[DaveTV]

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[acostiga]

put down the bong, hippie. you can't link to a tripod site.

i'm just kidding around... was wondering how long it'd be until someone started this obligatory april 20th thread.

[Steven S. Dallas]

I'm ripped to the tits already.

[powderhound]

it's so pretty
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[el_jefe]

"According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos. The term 420 was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. ``Waldo Steve,'' a member of the group who now owns a business in San Francisco, says the Waldos would salute each other in the school hallway and say ``420 Louis!'' The term was one of many invented by the group, but it was the one that caught on. ``It was just a joke, but it came to mean all kinds of things, like `Do you have any?' or `Do I look stoned?' '' he said. ``Parents and teachers wouldn't know what we were talking about.'' The term took root, and flourished, and spread beyond San Rafael with the assistance of the Grateful Dead and their dedicated cohort of pot-smoking fans. The Waldos decided to assert their claim to the history of the term after decades of watching it spread, mutate and be appropriated by commercial interests. The Waldos contacted Hager, and presented him with evidence of 420's history, primarily a collection of postmarked letters from the early '70s with lots of mention of 420. They also started a Web site, waldo420.com. ``We have proof, we were the first,'' Waldo Steve said. ``I mean, it's not like we wrote a book or invented anything. We just came up with a phrase. But it's kind of an honor that this emanated from San Rafael."

san rafael is one cool town, too. enjoy the day, kids!

[DaveTV]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=420&f=1

[FollowMe]

pull tubes brah

[InspectorGadget]

420 is an essential word in stoner vocabulary.

Small wonder I didn't understand the point of this thread.

[powderhound]

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[Buzzworthy]

How did I know that 420 would be a top thread as soon as I opened the board this morning??

[Dexter Rutecki]

Originally posted by el_jefe
The term 420 was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot.

Ha, ha! Not only does the French dude make milk safe to drink, he helps give us this enormously useful term.
What the hell kind of high-school has a statue of Louis Pasteur? Agricultural HS?

[iceman]

Even Snopes says it's true (well not the Louis Pasteur part). Kinda interesting read, actually.

[powderhound]

All this time I thought it was police code.

[Crinkle]

nope its the address of the cops.

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[bagtagley]

Got a batch of brownies cooling as we speak. I think I'm gonna take off a bit early today.

[Walter Sobchak]

I heard 4/20 was a major national German holiday from 1933 to 1945. They must have been soooo stoned ...

[Dave Chappelle]

HAPPY 420 BITCHES!!!!

[InspectorGadget]

Originally posted by bagtagley
Got a batch of brownies cooling as we speak.

Did you use Alice B. Toklas' recipe?

"Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stone dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient. Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties.... It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green."

[Big E]

Wonder when the new Volvo 420 is coming out??

[powderhound]

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[Buster Highmen]

4+20 - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young


Four and twenty years ago

I came into this life

The son of a woman

And a man who lived in strife

He was tired of being poor

And he wasn’t into selling door to door

And he worked like the devil to be more



A different kind of poverty now upsets my soul

Night after sleepless night

I walk the floor and I want to know

Why am I so alone?

Where is my woman? Can I bring her home?

Have I driven her away? Is she gone?



Morning comes the sunrise

And I’m driven to my bed

I see that it is empty

And there’s devils in my head

I embrace the many colored beast

I grow weary of the torment

Can there be no peace?

And I find myself just wishing

That my life would simply cease.

[powderhound]

on a more serious note, could we please have a moment of silence to remember Columbine 4-20-99

http://www.datvis.net/fi/columbine/

[Aldo]

I'll be mowing the lawn this evening.

[powderhound]

Ok, thank you for the silence, back to the 4/20 stoke!
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