BS: Ready for 420?

Subject: BS: Ready for 420?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 06:12 PM

Possibly bording on a "Folk Culture" subject, but one possibly not known to many eldsters here:

Capitalist buzz surrounds ... ... 'holiday'

Blunt efforts to make a buck off '420,' once just a counterculture affair

By Mike Stuckey
Senior news editor
updated 5:01 a.m. CT, Wed., April. 16, 2008

A once clandestine counterculture [deleted] "holiday" observed each April 20 has crossed into the mainstream this year with public gatherings that will attract thousands of participants and marketing campaigns that tout a trio of [deleted]-themed movies.

As [deleted] activists chafe, the so-called "420" (pronounced "four-twenty") celebrations "are taking on a life of their own," said Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the [deleted] who has been working on [deleted] issues for 17 years.

Click the link if necessary, to find out what it's about.

If you already know what it is, comment on the "crass commercializing" of what once was a "cultural event."

John

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 06:26 PM

Comment? On what?

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Amos
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 07:44 PM

Next thing you know they'll make movies out of Lucy in the Sky with Diamond...oh...what year?? Oh, never miind!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 08:14 PM

I was pretty sure almost NOTHING would work, to get many here to actually look at the linked info before commenting.

(It was a quiz.)

'nuff said, I guess.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 08:58 PM

dija ever see the floor. I mean really you know, see it?

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 09:03 PM

HEY! I looked! And to be honest, I'd never heard of 420 before...and I did...uh...sorry, no comment.
I never did nuttin honey.

















The Gubmint might be monitoring, ya know.
:)

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:07 PM

Picture yourself on a seat in a diner
You're ordering coffee at 4:25
the waitress is smoking, the policeman is joking
when suddenly your order arrives

Lucy made a Pie with Almonds!
Lucy made a Pie with Almonds!

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 02:15 AM

So where can I buy my 'Hippy 4-20 Day' cards then? It's only going to be a matter of time before Hallmark get in on the act....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Ernest
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 02:20 AM

So why did they pick Hitlers birthday for their "holiday"?????

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 02:34 AM

LtS -

You might see if the "campus book store" at almost any college/university in California or Colorado (esp. Boulder) has appropriate cards. I'd guess that T-shirts (and/or shorts) would be more likely offerings though.

I'd heard of this, via a couple of 6-month assignements to Boulder CO several decades ago, but as the article said, I thought it had pretty much died out. The term seems to have originated(?) with a "younger crowd" - i.e. high schoolers - rather than with old-line hippies.

(comealonglately wannabees?)

But now we'll all know the term when it shows up in a filk song - - - I suppose.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 02:35 AM

It's also the birthday of Carmen Electra, Andy Sirkiss (Gollum), Luther Vandross, Ryan O'Neal, George Takei(Mr Sulu) and Tito Puente...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 09:01 AM

What started the whole 4:20 thing, anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Amos
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:06 AM

According to one urban legend, it evolved among highschoolers waiting for school to let out at 4:20 to gather and stone. I don't remember high school running that late in the afternoon. But I wasn't paying attention.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Becca72
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:28 AM

The way I heard it 420 was the police code for possession...

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 12:43 PM

I think the Tito Puente birthday thing probably explains it.

Subject: RE: BS: Ready for 420?
From: open mike
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:25 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)