Funny the things you learn about your own culture when trying to explain it to others. Take the use of '420,' for instance. Wikipedia offers an elucidating article with the tidbit that the California law authorizing and regulating medical uses of marijuana was Senate Bill 420. How'd they pull that off?
The law was quite successful. Medical marijuana joints outnumber McDonald's 2 to 1 in San Francisco, according to an article in The Examiner last year.
My other favorite fact: The second line of the first verse in the children's nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' goes "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie."
Yale is fortunate to have probably the only carillon in the world located on High Street. Not to say that anyone has ever gotten baked on the tower... oh no...
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I loved the San Rafael story best :-) And there's more to the link between 420 and alledgedly high carillonistas: the time 4:20 seems to refer to "bicycle day"... Aha! So besides the song "I am sailing", a whole new light is shed on Queen's "Bicycle Race" as well :-)
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