April 20, 2006

When's National Thumb Wrestling Day?

Posted by pete at April 20, 2006 11:17 PM

Hurry up! There are still a few minutes left to celebrate National High Five Day.

National High Five Day falls on the third Thursday of April each year, which falls this year on April 20, 2006. The holiday originated at the University of Virginia in 2002, and has since spread across the nation, and around the globe.

I'll have to take their word for that (though the linked "intense high five montage" is somewhat amusing), and it's fortuitous that this year NH5D falls on 4-20, because what's more gratifying after smoking a few bowls than hitting each other up high, then down low? Nothing, that's what.

While I'm on the subject, this "420" shit can officially go away now. I don't know when it started, honestly (I don't read High Times), but what might have been a mildly amusing stoner in-joke many years ago has now become recognizable to the squarest of the sqaures and as lame and commodified as any other formerly obscure cultural phenomenon.

In other words, all your 420 are belong to us.

> I don't know when it started, honestly

Snopes explains.

--Posted by Julian on April 21, 2006 5:14 AM

According to the DVD commentary, I think Bob and David are still running a contest to count of the high fives between them (just those two) in all four seasons of Mr. Show. There's nobody to send it to and nothing to win, but I've got a clear schedule.

--Posted by norbizness on April 21, 2006 11:21 AM

a perfectly cromulent blog: TIMELY pop culture related smart-assery.

--Posted by denny on April 21, 2006 5:01 PM

Crystal Gale Mangum is the new Katelyn Faber.

--Posted by Leykis does it again! on April 21, 2006 8:57 PM

Crystal Gale Mangum is the new Katelyn Faber.

How very proud you must be.

--Posted by Pete on April 21, 2006 10:50 PM



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