Google got in on 420!

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DainBramaged

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Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

Fans of marijuana think today's Google logo pays tribute to their day of celebrating drugs, not knowing that it's actually in recognition of artist Joan Miró's birthday. They think Miró's style of art somehow relates to pot.

:thumbsup:
 
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They were talking about 420 on the hip-hop thuggie radio station this morning. Is this the police code for marajuana possession or something?
 

MikeMike

Lifer
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Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

Fans of marijuana think today's Google logo pays tribute to their day of celebrating drugs, not knowing that it's actually in recognition of artist Joan Miró's birthday. They think Miró's style of art somehow relates to pot.

:thumbsup:

yes, but if they posted every famous artists birthday, they would have tons.

they dont post Joan Miros just because shes a famous artist, its because her paintings somewhat fit in with the days trends.
 

ZoomStop

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Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
on this day in 1979, jimmy carter was attacked by a swamp rabbit in plains, georgia.

On this day in 1889 Adolph Hitler was born to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl in Austria.

!! Creepy tid-bit is that Klara was Alois's neice. !!
 

kranky

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Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

Fans of marijuana think today's Google logo pays tribute to their day of celebrating drugs, not knowing that it's actually in recognition of artist Joan Miró's birthday. They think Miró's style of art somehow relates to pot.

:thumbsup:

yes, but if they posted every famous artists birthday, they would have tons.

they dont post Joan Miros just because shes a famous artist, its because her paintings somewhat fit in with the days trends.

Really? Then help me understand how her paintings relate to marijuana.
 

40Hands

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Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

Fans of marijuana think today's Google logo pays tribute to their day of celebrating drugs, not knowing that it's actually in recognition of artist Joan Miró's birthday. They think Miró's style of art somehow relates to pot.

:thumbsup:

yes, but if they posted every famous artists birthday, they would have tons.

they dont post Joan Miros just because shes a famous artist, its because her paintings somewhat fit in with the days trends.

Winnar!
 

MikeMike

Lifer
Feb 6, 2000
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Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

Fans of marijuana think today's Google logo pays tribute to their day of celebrating drugs, not knowing that it's actually in recognition of artist Joan Miró's birthday. They think Miró's style of art somehow relates to pot.

:thumbsup:

yes, but if they posted every famous artists birthday, they would have tons.

they dont post Joan Miros just because shes a famous artist, its because her paintings somewhat fit in with the days trends.

Really? Then help me understand how her paintings relate to marijuana.

surrealist works, with their subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy

never smoked have you.
 

Feldenak

Lifer
Jan 31, 2003
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Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

Fans of marijuana think today's Google logo pays tribute to their day of celebrating drugs, not knowing that it's actually in recognition of artist Joan Miró's birthday. They think Miró's style of art somehow relates to pot.

:thumbsup:

yes, but if they posted every famous artists birthday, they would have tons.

they dont post Joan Miros just because shes a famous artist, its because her paintings somewhat fit in with the days trends.

Really? Then help me understand how her paintings relate to marijuana.

surrealist works, with their subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy

never smoked have you.

I don't know what kind of pot you were smoking but I've never heard of someone hallucinating on pot alone.
 

jjones

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Oct 9, 2001
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Joan Miro's work has nothing to do with marijuana and neither did the surrealist movement, best expressed in the words of Salvador Dali, "I don't do drugs, I am drugs."
 

Literati

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Jan 13, 2005
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Originally posted by: y2kc
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

neither do i... it's a druggie burnout thing i guess..

If by druggie burnout thing you mean common sense then you're right!

Sounds like you need to start doing drugs.
 

sobriquet

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Sep 10, 2002
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Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

Fans of marijuana think today's Google logo pays tribute to their day of celebrating drugs, not knowing that it's actually in recognition of artist Joan Miró's birthday. They think Miró's style of art somehow relates to pot.

:thumbsup:

yes, but if they posted every famous artists birthday, they would have tons.

they dont post Joan Miros just because shes a famous artist, its because her paintings somewhat fit in with the days trends.

Wow, so did anybody actually bother to read enough about Miró to discover that HE is a MAN? And yes, drugs factored heavily into surrealism. Miró was known to create in starvation-induced hallucinations.
 

sobriquet

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Originally posted by: jjones
Joan Miro's work has nothing to do with marijuana and neither did the surrealist movement, best expressed in the words of Salvador Dali, "I don't do drugs, I am drugs."

But Breton, the advisor-of-sorts to the surrealists, strongly encouraged drug use and other modes of hallucination.
 

Babbles

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Jan 4, 2001
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Originally posted by: Literati
Originally posted by: y2kc
Originally posted by: Shawn
eh? I don't get it.

neither do i... it's a druggie burnout thing i guess..

If by druggie burnout thing you mean common sense then you're right!

Sounds like you need to start doing drugs.

Wait you are advocating common sense and at the same time advocating drug use . . . yeah that makes a lot of sense.
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