four-twenty

Alexey I. Fuchs c0654038 at TECHST02.TECHNION.AC.IL
Mon Jan 24 06:02:27 UTC 2000


>
> A bike messenger at my courier company refers to it as "5:20".
> Unfortunately, I don't know what his folk-etymology is.

        It's probably because of the confusion with the tea-times. It used
to be 6:00 before, and it changed then to five.
        I insist on tea in fourty minutes.

                                                        Alexey



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