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Whitehall
12-30-2002, 09:39 AM
Guess I just not up-to-date on current slang, but could anyone explain the meaning and origin of the phrase \"420\"?
Wolfe
12-30-2002, 09:59 AM
i believe that has something to do with \"national pot smoking day\".....4/20/xx or just 420
MOBLEYC57
12-30-2002, 10:03 AM
CURIOUS! Never heard that expression. How was it used when you heard it?

Wolfe - Are you serious?
Wolfe
12-30-2002, 10:05 AM
yep
Whitehall
12-30-2002, 10:05 AM
I saw it in personals ads as in \"420 friendly\"
Wolfe
12-30-2002, 10:07 AM
i do alot of \'online gaming\', which of course puts me in contact with alot of younger ppl in the chat rooms that host the games..have seen the term \'420\' used tons by these \'kids\' in relating to pot smoking
no joke /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif
MOBLEYC57
12-30-2002, 10:10 AM
Alrighty then! /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif Thanks!
**DONOTDELETE**
12-30-2002, 10:24 AM
Correct me if I\'m wrong, but I believe the term 420 initially came from Los Angeles, as it was the Police Code for Narcotics. (just like 187 is homicide) Either Distribution or Sales fell in to the 420 code. Since then it\'s been labeled national smoke day and time.

It\'s standard typical reference is in relation to Marijuana.
krtel
12-30-2002, 12:44 PM
From what I\'ve heard, it\'s related to a crook or a phony. Don\'t ask. lol. This is what I\'ve heard.

- Krish
Watcher
12-30-2002, 12:57 PM
Alrightiy then its 420 hey thats a new one never heard it before but sounds good.
biteme
12-30-2002, 03:36 PM
I thought national pot smoking day was the first Saturday of April. Or maybe that was just a U of M thing.
seadove
12-30-2002, 10:03 PM
Whitehall
420 in the Sanskrit language is pronounced:
CHAR SO BEESS
Which also means a bluffer, a joker, and is common slang in India.

I\'m not joking.
Whitehall
12-31-2002, 08:22 AM
Can I use that on some of my Indian colleagues? Would they be offended or can it be used in a good natured way?
seadove
12-31-2002, 10:06 PM
Whitehall
The Indian people are nice warmhearted folks and they understand and laugh with you with a typical shake of their heads.
Now you can say:
\"Hey, CHAR SO BEESS, come here.\"
Or \"What a CHAR SO BEESS you are\"
Or \"Stop CHAR SO BEESSING me\"
They will laugh, it\'s common and you are not hurting their feelings.
Go ahead.
DrSmellThis
01-02-2003, 04:48 AM
What about the Neil Young lyric?
seadove
01-02-2003, 04:53 AM
No Idea.
Shell me more info.
**DONOTDELETE**
01-02-2003, 05:14 AM
Four and twenty years ago
I come into this life
The son of a woman
and a man who lived in strife
She was tired of being poor
and he wasn\'t into selling door to door ...
seadove
01-02-2003, 06:06 AM
FTR
I got it
It\'s like FOUR SCORES AND TWENTY YEARS AGO.(I got it right?)

Thanks FTR but REALLY 420 is VERY famous Indian slang/joke.
**DONOTDELETE**
01-02-2003, 08:31 PM
Yes 420 is definately that wacky tabacky. Also just for your information, its also hitlers birthday. oh and not \"nationsal Pot-Smoking day\" but, \"Stones Holiday\"