I'm still trying to determine the significance of having a press conference at 4:20 p.m. rather than 3:00 p.m. to discuss a congressman who is a bipolar, alcoholic, and drug-addicted
4:20 is shorthand for marijuana and drug culture. Why? The most likely reason, according to Wikipedia:
* Snopes.com, High Times magazine, The Marijuana-Logues, and The Straight Dope claim that in the early 1970s, a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California used to meet every day after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the Louis Pasteur statue. One piece of evidence supporting an origin of the term from the time 4:20 is the fact that the number is always said "four twenty". This theory is also the most cited, and the most widely accepted.
I have never heard this before - and I *should* have. I thought 4:20 was supposed to be 4/20, because of the Columbine massacre. Like 4/19 for Waco and OKC.