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| Tue, 10-10-2006 - 8:44pm |
"Looking for a gal who is 420 friendly?"
"420 girls"
This is not an area code in my area so what does 420 mean? I'm seeing it more and more. Does anyone know?
| Tue, 10-10-2006 - 8:44pm |
"Looking for a gal who is 420 friendly?"
"420 girls"
This is not an area code in my area so what does 420 mean? I'm seeing it more and more. Does anyone know?
I googled this and found that the term '420' friendly refers to people who smoke marijuana. According to snopes.com:
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.
LOL! A guy I had a date with last week asked me if I knew what "420" meant because he saw it in a lot of Craigs List ads. He had no idea and neither did I. Of course, we're both over 40.
Thanks for clearing this up. I figured it was some weird sex thing I had yet to encounter. These youngsters today!! ;)
No .... THAT would be 69! lol