Your movie star name: Chips Hugo Your fashion designer name is Kathryn Helsinki Your socialite name is Katie New York Your fly girl / guy name is K Lev Your detective name is Horse Memorial High Your barfly name is Chips Beer Your soap opera name is Hannah Harvey Your rock star name is Snickers Water Your Star Wars name is Kathan Levdan Your punk rock band name is The Sleepy Monkey Wrench
Dramatic and over the top, you crave attention. And you'll do anything it takes to get noticed. You love to be seductive, even when it's inappropriate. If you're ignored, you're easily hurt ... and act out even more!
Claim: '420' entered drug parlance as a term signifying the time to light up a joint. Status: True.
Origins: Odd terms sneak into our language every now and then, and this is one of the oddest. Everyone who considers himself in the know about the drug subculture has heard that '420' has something to do with illegal drug use, but when you press them, they never seem to know why, or even what the term supposedly signifies.
It's both more and less than people make it out to be. '420' began its sub-rosa linguistic career in 1971 as a bit of slang casually used by a group of high school kids at San Rafael High School in California. '420' (always pronounced "four-twenty," never "four hundred and twenty") came to be an accepted part of the argot within that group of about a dozen pot smokers, beginning as a reminder of the time they planned to meet to light up, 4:20 p.m. Keep in mind this wasn't a general call to all dope smokers everywhere to toke up at twenty past four every day; it was twelve kids who'd made a date to meet near a certain statue. It's thus incorrect to deem that '420' originated as a national or international dope-smoking time, even though the term began as a reference to a particular time of day.
These days '420' is used as a generic way of declaring one likes to use marijuana or just as a term for the substance itself. Its earliest connotation of having to do with the time a certain group of students congregated to smoke wacky tobaccy is unknown to the overwhelming majority of those who now employ the term. Indeed, most instead believe one or more of the many spurious explanations that have since grown up about this much abused short form:
420 is the penal code section for marijuana use in California. Nope. Section 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The penal codes of other states list different entries for 420, but none of them matches anything having to do with marijuana.
However, on 1 January 2004 the Governor of California signed that state's Senate Bill 420 which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes. This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection. This is the tail wagging the dog, not the other way around.
It's the Los Angeles or New York police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress. It's not the police radio code for anything, let alone that.
It's the number of chemical compounds in marijuana. The number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine.
April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin died. Though these performers were strongly identified with drug use during their brief lifetimes and the emerging drug culture after their demises, none of them kicked the bucket on April 20. Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on September 18, and Joplin on October 4.
The 20th of April is the best time to plant marijuana. There's no one "best time" -- that answer would change from one part of the country to another, or even one country to another.
Albert Hofmann took the first deliberate LSD trip at 4:20 on 19 April 1943. This was indeed the case — his lab notes back this up. But this wasn't the source of "420," just an oddball coincidence. (For the pedants out there, Hofmann's first LSD trip, which was accidental, took place on 16 April 1943.)
It's the code you send to your drug dealer's pager. Yeah, right. All drug dealers recognize a '420' page as "Please be waiting on the corner with my baggie of wildwood weed."
When the Grateful Dead toured, they always stayed in Room 420. Untrue, says Grateful Dead Productions spokesman Dennis McNally.
Spurious etymologies and uncertain definition aside, '420' has slipped into a position of semi-respectability within the English lexicon. Various free-wheeling cities annually celebrate "hemp fests" on April 20. There's a 4:20 record label in California, and a band called 4:20. Atlanta's Sweetwater Brewing Co. sells its 420 Pale Ale in supermarkets and opens its doors to the public at 4:20 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. New York's 420 Tours sells low-cost travel packages to the Netherlands and Jamaica. Highway 420 Radio broadcasts "music for the chemically enhanced." And in 2001, the forReal.org web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention put out a public service document titled, "It's 4:20 — Do You Know Where Your Teen Is?"
420s are routinely slipped into popular movies and television shows. In Fast Times at Ridgemont High the score of the football game was 42-0. Most of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20 (but not all — when the kid receives the watch it's set at 9:00). And there are many other instances, so keep your eyes peeled.
However, as amusing as it is to tie 420 to pot smoking and hunt for it in popular movies, the number has its dark side. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, and the massacre of 13 victims at Columbine High School in Colorado took place on 20 April 1999.
Yeah, you're a bit fixated on yourself. But you're so great, you can't help it! You're a bit obsessed with your own fame and success. And you'll push past anyone who stands in your way.
That was great Kitch - I've used 420 a few times thinking I knew the reasons behind it. Many of them proven wrong. I never dove into it that much. Cool shit.
Oh, and thanks for the new Tag
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I am the very gay winnie the pooh. I am a bit histrionic. I will die when I'm 82 I should have been born in april. My inner european is russian. I act 32. I am psychic. I am the los angeles smog crayon. I have too much time.
The blind melons, Bazoombas Bambi and Thumper!betty and veronica Abercrombie & Fitch Mork and Mindy Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding Siegfried and Roy--talk about major turnoff!!! Milk shakes Thelma and Louise Twin Peaks
Your movie star name: Chips Hugo
Your fashion designer name is Kathryn Helsinki
Your socialite name is Katie New York
Your fly girl / guy name is K Lev
Your detective name is Horse Memorial High
Your barfly name is Chips Beer
Your soap opera name is Hannah Harvey
Your rock star name is Snickers Water
Your Star Wars name is Kathan Levdan
Your punk rock band name is The Sleepy Monkey Wrench
My Hippie Dude Name is: Electric
chips beer??? isnt that what erik estrada drinks???
eric estrada doesn't exist
I know someone who's man-part is named Mr. Rogers
A guy could have alot of fun with that one.
ha...elvis
chubby checker?
yes but what kind of guy would have fun with mr rogers?? someoneover at redandnater.com
now its time to make plans for saintsgiving
I guess I act 22:
20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.
Funny how I scored 53 years old when taking the test that figures out your physical age. :-(
You May Be a Bit Histrionic ...
Dramatic and over the top, you crave attention. And you'll do anything it takes to get noticed. You love to be seductive, even when it's inappropriate. If you're ignored, you're easily hurt ... and act out even more!
What Personality Disorder Are You?
Hey!! Everybody look what I got! Look at me! Pahleeze!!!
Heck, they even got the pig thing right.
[Edited by on Apr 20, 2005 at 11:00am.]
mine came up with a picture of kramer from sienfeld i was schizophonic or something
http://www.blogthings.com/whatagequiz/
Says I'm 37.
Imagine that!
it says i act like a 25 year old ..yea thats about right(at least how i act)
I guess it averages out.
[Edited by on Apr 20, 2005 at 11:48am.]
In some ways I act 16, in others I act 60.
I guess it averages out.
Just like in some ways you are a complete sissy and in other ways you are the stern controller.
grumpy old man?
http://studenthome.nku.edu/~russelljo/flash/dudefalling.swf
my guess from the website is it's either a project they did to learn shockwave animation, or just a very bored student...
Claim: '420' entered drug parlance as a term signifying the time to light up a joint.
Status: True.
Origins: Odd
terms sneak into our language every now and then, and this is one of the oddest. Everyone who considers himself in the know about the drug subculture has heard that '420' has something to do with illegal drug use, but when you press them, they never seem to know why, or even what the term supposedly signifies.
It's both more and less than people make it out to be. '420' began its sub-rosa linguistic career in 1971 as a bit of slang casually used by a group of high school kids at San Rafael High School in California. '420' (always pronounced "four-twenty," never "four hundred and twenty") came to be an accepted part of the argot within that group of about a dozen pot smokers, beginning as a reminder of the time they planned to meet to light up, 4:20 p.m. Keep in mind this wasn't a general call to all dope smokers everywhere to toke up at twenty past four every day; it was twelve kids who'd made a date to meet near a certain statue. It's thus incorrect to deem that '420' originated as a national or international dope-smoking time, even though the term began as a reference to a particular time of day.
These days '420' is used as a generic way of declaring one likes to use marijuana or just as a term for the substance itself. Its earliest connotation of having to do with the time a certain group of students congregated to smoke wacky tobaccy is unknown to the overwhelming majority of those who now employ the term. Indeed, most instead believe one or more of the many spurious explanations that have since grown up about this much abused short form:
420 is the penal code section for marijuana use in California. Nope. Section 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The penal codes of other states list different entries for 420, but none of them matches anything having to do with marijuana.
However, on 1 January 2004 the Governor of California signed that state's Senate Bill 420 which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes. This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection. This is the tail wagging the dog, not the other way around.
It's the Los Angeles or New York police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress. It's not the police radio code for anything, let alone that.
It's the number of chemical compounds in marijuana. The number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine.
April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin died. Though these performers were strongly identified with drug use during their brief lifetimes and the emerging drug culture after their demises, none of them kicked the bucket on April 20. Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on September 18, and Joplin on October 4.
The 20th of April is the best time to plant marijuana. There's no one "best time" -- that answer would change from one part of the country to another, or even one country to another.
Albert Hofmann took the first deliberate LSD trip at 4:20 on 19 April 1943. This was indeed the case — his lab notes back this up. But this wasn't the source of "420," just an oddball coincidence. (For the pedants out there, Hofmann's first LSD trip, which was accidental, took place on 16 April 1943.)
It's the code you send to your drug dealer's pager. Yeah, right. All drug dealers recognize a '420' page as "Please be waiting on the corner with my baggie of wildwood weed."
When the Grateful Dead toured, they always stayed in Room 420. Untrue, says Grateful Dead Productions spokesman Dennis McNally.
Spurious etymologies and uncertain definition aside, '420' has slipped into a position of semi-respectability within the English lexicon. Various free-wheeling cities annually celebrate "hemp fests" on April 20. There's a 4:20 record label in California, and a band called 4:20. Atlanta's Sweetwater Brewing Co. sells its 420 Pale Ale in supermarkets and opens its doors to the public at 4:20 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. New York's 420 Tours sells low-cost travel packages to the Netherlands and Jamaica. Highway 420 Radio broadcasts "music for the chemically enhanced." And in 2001, the forReal.org web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention put out a public service document titled, "It's 4:20 — Do You Know Where Your Teen Is?"
420s are routinely slipped into popular movies and television shows. In Fast Times at Ridgemont High the score of the football game was 42-0. Most of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20 (but not all — when the kid receives the watch it's set at 9:00). And there are many other instances, so keep your eyes peeled.
However, as amusing as it is to tie 420 to pot smoking and hunt for it in popular movies, the number has its dark side. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, and the massacre of 13 victims at Columbine High School in Colorado took place on 20 April 1999.
Barbara "4 and 20 blackbirds" Mikkelson
http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm
[Edited by on Apr 20, 2005 at 02:41pm.]
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You May Be a Bit Narcissistic ...
Yeah, you're a bit fixated on yourself.
But you're so great, you can't help it!
You're a bit obsessed with your own fame and success.
And you'll push past anyone who stands in your way.
You May Be a Bit Obsessive Compulsive ...
Meticulous and detailed oriented, you have some irrational obsessions.
Maybe it's your super neat closet or washing your hands a gazillion times.
You probably know it's weird, but you just can't stop thinking about it.
In fact, the more you think about your quirks, the more you have to do them.
What Personality Disorder Are You?
The first time I took the test it showed a photo of
Kirk Cobains wife- Courtney Love
That was great Kitch - I've used 420 a few times thinking I knew the reasons behind it. Many of them proven wrong. I never dove into it that much. Cool shit.
Oh, and thanks for the new Tag
[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Apr 20, 2005 at 05:14pm.]
I was Tony Soprano.
I'm Courtney Love!!
You May Be a Bit Borderline ...
Your mood swings make a roller coaster look tame!
When you're up, you're a little bit crazy...
And when you're down, your whole world is crashing
Scary thing is, these moods can change by the minute!
What Personality Disorder Are You?
You May Be a Bit Borderline ...
Your mood swings make a roller coaster look tame!
When you're up, you're a little bit crazy...
And when you're down, your whole world is crashing
Scary thing is, these moods can change by the minute!
What Personality Disorder Are You?
Me three! Hehehehe
You May Be a Bit Borderline ...
Your mood swings make a roller coaster look tame!
When you're up, you're a little bit crazy...
And when you're down, your whole world is crashing
Scary thing is, these moods can change by the minute!
What Personality Disorder Are You?
Whew! We all made it thru the scary day yesterday?
I am the very gay winnie the pooh.
I am a bit histrionic.
I will die when I'm 82
I should have been born in april.
My inner european is russian.
I act 32.
I am psychic.
I am the los angeles smog crayon.
I have too much time.
 i am the walrus i am the eggman kooo koo ka choo
 anyone listening to the new jack 104.1??
I did a little...wierd! but kinda fun!
what do you mean NEW? I listen to 104.1 occasionally...is it a new format? still 80's?
 no longer 80s they flipped to the new jack format..which plays a little of everything
 and whats funny is the other stations must have know try going to http://www.jack104.com/
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[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Apr 21, 2005 at 10:02am.]
They must be trying to compete with 89.3
hmmmmmm
http://www.birdcheck.co.uk/whackthepenguin.htm
http://www.conceptlab.com/simulator/
 545 on the penguin
 lets all make big macs
[Edited by on Apr 21, 2005 at 12:04pm.]
http://www.waitforever.com/
well fine then,
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1500 Joe
 i dont have all day to wait for that site to load:)
It's actually really fun! try it!
 the wait forever site is fun or the penguin i played the penguin got 545
You May Be a Bit Schizotypal ...
A bit odd and socially isolated.
You couldn't care less of what others think.
And some of your beliefs are a little weird.
Like that time you thought you were Jesus.
What Personality Disorder Are You?
whew, Kitch, I got that one too....glad I am not alone:)
The blind melons,
Bazoombas Bambi and Thumper!betty and veronica
Abercrombie & Fitch
Mork and Mindy
Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding Siegfried and Roy--talk about major turnoff!!! Milk shakes
Thelma and Louise
Twin Peaks
Ok I'm getting bored with this...
Get your own Magic Pick Up Line
Get your own Magic Pick Up Line
Get your own Magic Pick Up Line
is this why I haven't been able to find the medallion?? I keep getting lost in the eyes of cooler babes???