Hide and be careful in the week of Hitler's birthday: April 20th. It's what I told my kid for years.

[Mira]

2013 It has been a horrible week already. Let's hope and beg the terror is finished.


2010 United States Deepwater Horizon explodes 20th April

2007 U.S.A. Virginia Tech shooting 16th April

1999 U.S.A. Columbine High School Shooting 20th April

1995 U.S.A. Oklahoma Bombing 1995 April 19th

1993 U.S.A. Waco Cult Assault April 19th

1983 Lebanon Terrorist Attack US Embassy 18th April

this is not man-made but also on that date
1906 U.S.A. Earthquake San Francisco 18th April

[cali]

1. I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous.

[demwing]

16. It's OK to be ridiculous

Don't put anyone in danger, but having some time set aside each week for ridiculousness is healthy.

[Sherman A1]

2. It's also National Library Week

Yesterday was Bookmobile Day. Today is Animal Crackers Birthday.

You can find an event to go with pretty much any and everyday, week and month on the calendar with either google or wiki and rationalize any conclusions you want from the assembled data.

[longship]

3. Gotta love animal cracker birthday! Thanks. Will celebrate! nt

[Sherman A1]

4. My pleasure

I try to post these dates of great celebration in the lounge when I can. Yesterday was National Cheeseball Day.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

23. When is National Pirate Day?

I hope I didn't miss it. I want to talk like a fucking pirate.

[longship]

25. That's "International Talk Like a Pirate Day", Sept. 19

ARRRRRGH! Maties!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

27. Well, beeeelow me down!

'Tis just o'er the 'orizon, me swabby!!

[progressoid]

33. Mmmmm.

I prefer the frosted animal crackers.

But my doctor said I need to cut back and get a little more exercise.

[hepkat]

5. crazy people do tend to do crazy things Hitler's bday week

but the odds of being harmed are very very low. And being careful would not really help in these instances unless you want to be so paranoid that you stay home from work and school.

[Mopar151]

6. "April is the cruelest month" t s eliot n/t

[Pointy_n_sharp]

7. Really? Hide...

What do you do? Get under the covers?

[darkangel218]

8. lol!!

[tblue]

9. Titanic & Lincoln both April 14-15

These have nothing to do with each other but I thought I'd add them to your list of April horrors. it is amazing how awful April is. And the man-made disasters you mention, I am fairly certain, are planned to coincide with Hitler's birthday or to avenge Waco, or both.

[Berlum]

10. Patriot's Day is actually this Friday, April 19

N. B. - April 19 is the true date. Massacusetts was just making things "convenient" by marking the day of commemoration -- with the marathon and all the rest -- on Monday, April 15 -- a date which will live in infamy.

[cartach]

11. Don't forget April showers. EOM

[tclambert]

12. The perpetrators of Columbine left info that they planned the attack for Hitler's birthday.

Timothy McVeigh chose April 19th to bomb Oklahoma City in honor of the anniversary of the battle of Lexington and Concord (beginning of the American Revolution). So a couple of these at least did have intentional tie-ins to the date.

[tclambert]

15. Oh, I double-checked and it may have just come from journalists' speculation. My apologies.

They did leave some written record of their planning. Apparently, it left ambiguities as to the planned date. They may have intended to do it on April 19th, but had delays in their prep work.

Man, it seems like every time I get lazy on the double-checking of sources, somebody calls me on it, and it turns out I got it wrong. You'd think I'd learn a lesson from that.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

24. It's happened to me, too.

Don't worry. I'm usually diligent about checking, but it is that one time where:

1) I was too damned lazy to look it up to confirm, or
2) I got cocky and really thought my recollection was 100%

It's very rare that I do the above, but when I do, sure enough, I'm busted.

It happens to the best of us. Don't sweat it.

[LuvNewcastle]

14. What date did 9/11 happen?

Oh..... that's right.

[glowing]

17. That's 4/20 day... That's the day to get high!

Participated regularly by many college kids. Professors know not many will show up or be able to pay attention for too long if they do. It was a holiday for us on our campus. Lol.

[dotymed]

18. 4-20 is also Cannabis day in 'murika.

It is the code that cops use to describe a marijuana bust.
In the singles ads, many ads say "4-20 friendly."
Coincidence? I think not....

[hootinholler]

34. 4-20 is not a police code n/t

[dotymed]

37. Please enlighten me.

OK, here is what the "Urban Dictionary says:


So far the majority of you are incorrect.
420's origin IS known.
the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos, who are now pushing 50. The term was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. Intent on developing their own discreet language, they made 420 code for a time to get high, and its use spread among members of an entire generation.
So there ya go, someone's parents out there invented the term 4/20.
And remember this:
There are NOT 420 chemicals in Weed. It's about 315, the num. goes up or down depending on what you're smoking.
I stand corrected.
"

[era veteran]

19. Dad's birthday 4/20

He killed a lot of fascists and dropped his middle, Germanic, name. My Azaleas should bloom that day.
All my employees call it National Hang Out At The Dumpster Day.

[graham4anything]

20. The people who make fun of those who worry, and I myself am worried-

How many of those people who make fun, are the same ones that 24/7/365 sleep with their trusted gun/bullets by their side afraid of boogiemen at 1am, 2am,3am,4am,all day long?

Then say we shouldn't be worried.

I fell asleep early last night and woke up around 2am.

WTF happened in Waco last night?
I don't understand, and there are not much threads about it.
That was an accident coincidental to the time?

NY TV doesn't have much about it, but of course, seems we can't believe the tv much anymore so I don't know what to think.

[drm604]

21. There was a terrible industrial accident in the town of West, Texas.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/texas-explosion/index.html

[Ian_rd]

22. True. It's best to stay inside and celebrate Hitler's birthday quietly.

What ... y'all don't do that too?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

26. LOL ...

That's something I would say. And I'm Jewish, too.

Funny post, caught me unawares. I thought I was the only one that would go there.

[deutsey]

30. Thank you for the laugh

It was much needed.

[hootinholler]

35. Yep and go to bed early the night before

So that the nazi bunny won't skip your house.

[TheManInTheMac]

28. I don't hide. I hope, but I don't beg. Ever.

After 9/11 there was a rumor going 'round that terrorists were planning to bomb an unspecified mall on a specific date. A friend of mine at work said she wouldn't go to a mall that day. "Better safe than sorry," she told me. I say better sorry than safe, because to live in fear is worse than dying.

[bike man]

29. How does one decide the beginning of "...the week of Hitler's birthday..."? Does it

BEGIN on the 20th, or END on the 20th - or what is the actual rule for this sort of woo?

If a catastrophe occurs in another part of the year, how does one fix the blame for that? Are there enough despots/evildoers to cover the entire year for blame-fixing?

[Logical]

31. Wow, paranoid much? Talk to someone about this. Seriously. n-t

[FSogol]

32. One more: April 12 - My mother-in-law's birthday.

[Poll_Blind]

36. Hitler or those that follow him or his ideals? They're not the boss of me. nt

PB