419?

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Bill Maher was talking about Idaho has to constantly putting a new mile mark 419. What does it mean? (I don't go out much...)

[TexasTowelie]

1. It is actually installing mile marker 419.9 signs.

It is a reference to the stoners stealing mile marker 420 signs.

420, 4:20, or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is a code-term that refers to the consumption of cannabis and by extension, as a way to identify oneself with cannabis subculture or simply cannabis itself. Observances based on the number 420 include smoking cannabis around the time 4:20 p.m., as well as smoking and celebrating cannabis on the date April 20.

[question everything]

3. Thanks. Interesting. What people will do to purse their... avocation? (nt)

[NV Whino]

2. It's actually 4:19.9

Because the original markers (4:20) kept getting stolen. (Not sure I have the punctuation right here.)

4:20 is the (coded) time to light up a smoke (of the mostly illegal kind).

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4. Thanks. I missed the exact point was made but the audience, of course, loved it (nt)

[rurallib]

5. no punctuations - the 420 mile markers have been replaced with 419.9

been happening in several western states where they are big enough for highways to be 420 miles or more long.

[NV Whino]

10. Thanks. Got it.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Some prior DU discussion...

here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027089488

[seveneyes]

7. Haley's Comet

[question everything]

8. We actually saw the real Haley's Comet

back in 1986. Our employer arranged for a strategic (or something like that) meeting in Jamaica right at that time. Was quite disappointing, if I remember, throughout the Northern Hemisphere and... we had a full moon. Hale-Bopp in 1997 was a lot more impressive.

[seveneyes]

9. I saw that mofo too

It was like sitting still with a tail. It wasn't until I dogged lead that it was not the wildest sight.

I praise the will and desire to survive and nothing more.