420 = police code
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
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SuziQ - Jul 11, 2006 3:38:02 pm PDT #3867 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Gris - Jul 11, 2006 3:40:08 pm PDT #3868 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Apparently not.
Urban Dictionary says it comes from a group of pot-heads in the '70s called the Waldos. It definitely seems to be in agreement that the police code thing is a falsehood.
Steph L. - Jul 11, 2006 3:43:20 pm PDT #3869 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Snopes, too: [link]
Trudy Booth - Jul 11, 2006 3:46:55 pm PDT #3870 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Sorta dumb to use a police code as your secret code from, you know, the police. Even stoned people couldn't be that dumb.
Emily - Jul 11, 2006 4:37:19 pm PDT #3871 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I feel so very out of it, since I had no idea what that meant.
Me too. I had no idea. Although now the police-code thing has been mentioned, maybe I had heard of it, but in the context of teenager slang.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 11, 2006 4:39:52 pm PDT #3872 of 10001
What is even happening?
I thought maybe it was some code for someone who had undergone a sex change.
vw bug - Jul 11, 2006 4:44:47 pm PDT #3873 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
So, um, I think I'll go to bed. Did I study for my final tomorrow? Nope. Why would I do a silly thing like that?
I did buy a swimsuit today, though. So freaking depressing. Three sizes larger than my last suit, which is kind of why I needed it, but still. I complain about this as I sit and eat a bowl of fully fat ice cream and had chicken quesadillas filled with cheese and chicken and guacamole and sour creamy goodness for dinner.
I also bought three pairs of shoes--sandals, I might add. The retail therapy, she is good. Now, did I really need three new pairs of sandals? Especially half-way through summer? No. But they sure are pretty!
Polter-Cow - Jul 11, 2006 4:45:24 pm PDT #3874 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I thought maybe it was some code for someone who had undergone a sex change.
Because there are 420 things different between men and women?
Topic!Cindy - Jul 11, 2006 4:53:13 pm PDT #3875 of 10001
What is even happening?
No, because the guy was adamant it was not sexual, but he would not share a bedroom with a male, and would only accept a female, and he read as nuts, so I figured the aliens told him which numbers to choose.
Hil R. - Jul 11, 2006 4:54:29 pm PDT #3876 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My dad just called. My mom's in the hospital again. It's probably nothing, but I'm still kind of worried.