We call 'em “Safety Meetings” !!
Being from Britain i’ve never heard this term before but I always seem to take my ciggarette break at 4.20. Coincidence? I think not, its obviousley the time the worlwide collective consciousness tunes in to smoke chemicals (legal or not) and to hell with datelines!
Slight hi(gh)jack:
Why is a bong a bong?
Here in the wonderful land of Oz they were always bongs and I
only ever heard Americans refer to them as waterpipes or hubble
bubble pipes.
Derivations please. I always thought it was the sound your brain
makes after two or three lungbusting pulls. Perhaps, the one-pull-
cone emptying brigade knows something.
I think “bong” was originally a brand name, back in the 1970s. I’ve seen Bong-brand waterpipes from that era, in a sort of classic bong shape. (Looked to be made out of cheap plastic, too). If I had to speculate, I’d guess that before this most waterpipes were hookah-esque.
Complete WAG, though, and no cites.
Your niece is correct. Also the next time you watch the movie Pulp Fiction see what time the clock is always set on too. Quite a few of the marijuana cites I read from, says it seems to have originated during the seventies and was the time a bunch of CA high school kids would fire up each day.
JZ
Whut?
No blackbirds reference?
Duckster, that was brilliant - at least to me, but I don’t indulge.