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Which is funnier: hippie college kids engaging in a weed smoking festival, or the local paper trying to cover that event in respectable language? You decide! In honor of 4/20, 10,000 kids at the University of Colorado hit the quad for a massive smoke-out, and the Boulder Daily Camera was on the scene to record all the magical high-ass quotes that spilled forth from the participants. Here is just one, from freshman Emily Benson: "We're at the starting point of a movement," she said. "This is a big part of the reason I applied here — for the weed atmosphere." Ha, yes you did! And there are so many more:
"You guys need to go stand on those stairs," one girl shouted to her friends, who were seated in a circle on the quadrangle grass. "You don't even understand."
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Smoke-out participants — thousands of whom wore green or T-shirts promoting pot — climbed trees, played the bongos, snapped pictures and had miniature picnics.That, of course, after they sparked the weed they had come to smoke.
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Although CU junior Max Lichtenstein, 21, isn't into marijuana or smoking, he also felt Sunday's event was a chance to do something "bigger" than himself. He passed out 126 Rice Krispies treats with messages attached asking that they act out against the injustices in Darfur."Tomorrow, when you're sober ... call the White House at 202-456-1414," the note read.
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One woman was hopeful Betz's treats [he was selling peanut butter and jelly sandwiches] were charged with some special ingredients."Are these magical?" she asked, only to be disappointed. "Why aren't you selling magical ones? I mean, it's cool — but c'mon."
[pic via Daily Camera]
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THIS IS EVERY DAY.
'University of Colorado: The Grassy Knoll Of The Rockies!"
Enlist, hippies.
These people are the worst.
i know you hear betz say all the time that's he's a subversive, but it isn't true. really, just think. about it.
Ugh, I hate hippies.
They're just trying to get over the pain of being raped by the football team.
Yes, all 10,000 of them.
This kind of thing isn't for me. I prefer to get blind drunk at home, alone.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: No, no. They're awesome, man! You don't even understand!
This post made me paranoid, then a little sleepy.
after seeing the silent rave in union square on friday I have given up
@Clare: I'm right there with you, sister.
I only eat food that is bewitched by magic. How do you live otherwise? Also, wouldn't a "miniature picnic" entail tiny food? Someone should feed these starving people normal portions or magical food that will shrink them like Alice in Wonderland.
"WOOOOOOOOT! Michael! Aren't you so glad to seeeeee meeeeee?"
@fiveinchtaint: Are you feeling a bit peckish now?
I spent yesterday celebrating Hitler's birthday. We had cake.
@mathnet: "Are you gonna start crying?"
@mathnet: "Well don't bogart it at least, Vicki!"
Ew. At least they were outside, so the concentrated odor of patchouli and dirty hair could dissipate.
Even the smell of weed can't cover up that stink.
@DorothyMantooth: Actually now I'm seeing stars. Was there another great giveaway? I'm still trying to figure out who took mine away :-(
These people are apparently doing their best to put me off weed.
They will not succeed.
Hippie 1: "Dude, if you reduce 4/20 to its lowest common denominator, it's 1/5."
Hippie 2: "Stop it, man, you're harshing my mellow."
Hippie 1: "Let's play hacky-sack."
I would like to have been assigned that story, as an undercover investigative piece.
They're giving us job-holding, taxpaying, family-oriented pot smokers a bad name.
@fiveinchtaint: Awww! Honey!!
That's not right at all!
Heads will roll, people! (Like joints, see?)
@TheHonJudgeSmails: At least they go outside.
Since when did pot become so uncool? I love Mary Jane!
freshman Emily Benson: "We're at the starting point of a movement," she said. "This is a big part of the reason I applied here - for the weed atmosphere."
Someone needs to school Emily's ass on her campus history and bring light to the fact that this school has been kicking up clouds long before she was a fetus.
The only way this quote makes any sense to me is by rationalizing that it is indeed SHE who is at STARTING POINT. God bless her enthusiasm.
I like the "stand on the stairs girl"... she cool.
Why don't they go over to the Air Force Academy nearby and smoke there. And offer free samples? Support our future troops!
These pretzels are making me THIRSTY
I want to save this and send it to Emily in 10 years when she's an asst. HR manager at Colorado second-largest stapler company.
You guys need to comment on the Starbucks post! You don't even understand.
Emily Benson's father just canceled her tuition check.
Snap, Crackle, Pop..wha? whoa..I think the little cereal dudes are trying to tell me something. What's a Zenu?
This whole fucking thing... I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that this fucking strumpet sould get stoned to the Bejesus belt in Boulder ...
@Chamomiles Davis: Agreed, I have been harking on this point for a while now, these proprietors of the fleabag stoner stereotype lend us all a bad rep.
In California we call them SCRATCHIES.
@LoveHandles: No, it's "These PRETZELS are making me thirsty".
emohippytrustafarians are the worst.
@famousauthor: Cuz those guys do meth and wait outside the local gay bars to start fights. I've seen it with my own eyes and it's not pretty.
@Sarcastro:
Was Cho with you? He said he couldn't make it to my shindig--well, according to my pet mouse that can tell the future and keeps asking me to kill the Great Nothing.
I love the hippies who think that any and every problem can be erased by simply smoking weed.
"What's the matter, bro?"
"My grandmother died today."
"Ah, dude. Sorry. Here, smoke this."
"Um, no thanks."
"No dude, seriously."
"Yeah, that's OK, really, I'm fine."
"DUDE. I know what you're going through. I've got a grandmother TOO. You NEED this, man. TRUST me, bro."
I smoked up with Max Lichtenstein on 1/26 and IT WAS AWESOME.
@Conbon: She'll just get money from her father's saggy-titted hippie life partner.
@PickleTitsTurner: Are you implying that I don't?
I think I have to go out & get me some macramé.
"Are these magical beers? Why aren't you selling magical ones? I mean, it's cool - but c'mon."
@PickleTitsTurner: Because that's not my choice. Take it up with my P.O.
I am so glad that CU made me leave because they found out I was living in the dorms but hadn't been enrolled for two years. The only part I liked was being on the judicial affairs student board suspending and kicking out students. Who would get pissed because the board was all minorities so they would accuse us of being racist.
I wanted to go to this but I was too busy watching the 3 Stooges. Those guys were seriously old men and they made a lot of money pretending to hit each other with ladders. That's right, pretending! Think about it, peepo.
"This is a big part of the reason I applied here - for the weed atmosphere...because you know smoking pot really doesn't happen at other colleges."
@NinaHagen: she's also vowed to save half of her tips from her coffee shop job (the other half is going into the concert fund and hiking slush fund).
oh, a slushie sounds so good - like with the flavors mixed and stuff.
DOUGLAS!