When you celebrate 4/20, you celebrate Hitler's birthday

[Bucky]

 

Discuss.



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Well done, Bucky, well done. That's a lot more provocative than the original title of this thread, which was going to be:

"When you celebrate 4/20, you celebrate Oliver Cromwell's 1653 dissolution of Parliament in which he fundamentally betrayed the republican principles that undergirded the English Civil War."

Obviously use of the word "undergirded" would have opened me up to charges of sexism.

[PA_Progressive]

1. LOL

[provis99]

2. 4/20 is also SC Justice John Paul Stevens' birthday.

Serendipity?

[Oregone]

3. So when Stevens blows out his birthday candles, its normally to a Wagner tune

And the cake is made with Cannabutter

[David__77]

4. It's my friend's bday too.

...

[Mojeoux]

5. Tommorro (the 21st) is my daughter's Birthday

When she was born in 1982, 420 wasn't a symbol for weed, at least not famously. But when I went into pre-labor on 4/20, the radio dj laughed that it was hitler's b.day and I told her she had to wait.
She is still Bombastic!!

[ChicagoSuz219]

16. Happy Birthday to your daughter!

It's funny. My daughter was born on Aug. 5. Aug. 6th of that year was the 40th anniversary of dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima. She was born 20 minutes before midnight! I was determined. ;-)

[Morning Dew]

17. Yeah, well, August 5th is the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death.

Why do you hate Marilyn??











Nah, my sister's BD is 08-05... that's the only reason I know MM's death day.

[ChicagoSuz219]

19. I loved her...

...my daughter's an actress, as well... ;-)

[NanceGreggs]

6. I don't get this OP.

I'm also stoned.






There may be a connection.

[dipsydoodle]

7. This is what I'd call a 75 percenter

The other 25% or so of us on DU, to which 4/20 means 20 minutes past 4 , use dd/mm/yy. Exactly why the USA uses mm/dd/yy will remain one of life's great mysteries to us.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. 4-20 was the beginning of the ichingcarpenter decade

No wonder we were unable to get together and solve any of the many serious problems facing our nation. Oh sure, some people did do some positive things in the 00's - like jogging and texting - but always for the wrong reasons, for their own selfish, personal benefit.

Well, I believe the 10's are gonna have to be different. I think that people are going to stop thinking about themselves, and start thinking about me, Ichingcarpenter. That's right. I believe we're entering what I like to call the Ichingcarpenter Decade. Oh, for me, Ichingcarpenter, the 00's will be pretty much the same as the 10's.

I'll still be thinking of me, Ichingcarpenter. But for you, you'll be thinking more about how things affect me, Ichingcarpenter.

When you see a news report, you'll be thinking, "I wonder what Ichingcarpenter thinks about this thing?"

"I wonder how this inflation thing is hurting Ichingcarpenter?"
And you women will be thinking, "What can I wear that will please Ichingcarpenter?", or "What can I not wear?"

You know, I know a lot of you out there are thinking, "Why Ichingcarpenter?"

Well, because I thought of it, and I'm on DU, so I've already gotten the jump on you. So, I say let's leave behind the fragmented, selfish 00's, and go into the 10's with a unity and purpose for me, Ichingcarpenter


Apologies to Al Franken

[Mojeoux]

10. Was Al's decade the 89s or the 90s? n/t

[XOKCowboy]

12. I loved that skit. nt

[Solly Mack]

9. I celebrate 4/30, so I must be celebrating his death.

[Call Me Wesley]

15. May I ask, is that your birthday?

It's definitely mine. ;) And yes, I always celebrate his death, too.

[Solly Mack]

23. Hey! No

...it's my anniversary. :)


It's a death well worth celebrating.

[harry_pothead]

11. That's funny, when I celebrate 4/20 I celebrate weed.

To each his own.

[stray cat]

13. Even if your birthday or anniversary falls on that day!

[peekaloo]

14. Fuhrer fumar furor?

Dude.

[Fla_Democrat]

18. what if you spark up a doobie?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29

420, 4:20 or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) refers to consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis subculture. 4/20 is sometimes referred to as "Weed Day" or "Pot Day". '<1>

The term was coined from a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971.<2><3> The teens would meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana outside the school.<4>



:smoke:

[ThomThom]

20. and I share a birthday with Richard M. Nixon

and I don't celebrate for him
silly silliness

[Javaman]

21. Also my grandfathers birthday...

which many in my family equate with hitler. They were both born on the same day in the same year.

He was not a nice man. I will leave it at that.

[Iggo]

22. Billions upon billions of people, and 366 possible birthdays. (n/t)

[ret5hd]

24. But only one hitler.