Glad someone else recognizes it. ;)

I think it should have been printed on March 14th.

I weep for humanity.

Do people seriously not get the reference?

I posted the whole nursery rhyme in someone elses blog... scary

ladykat, there were two other blogs going "yay a 4/20 shirt!", but one's been deleted now.

Ugh.



That's sad.

I know! I really can't believe that more people know about some teenager's in-joke from the 1970s than they do about a rhyme which kids have been chanting since the 18th century.

*shakes head in exasperation*

Well, no one ever said people had to be knowledgeable to use the internet... unfortunately.

I saw the birds in the pie and realized that it was the nursery rhyme. Then I saw the chart heading and realized how many people are going to post 4/20 blogs.

well, in australia we have a pie brand (may i add, the best pie brand ever) called four and twenty. hehe. yum. am living in the uk and missin em

Either way the shirt is dumb. hah

I'd never even heard of the 4/20 thing. Must be something american I think.

I thought about the nursery rhyme right away, and I haven't even really heard or read that.

Weird huh.

Same thing Trimm... it is an american thing, wikipedia says north american, even.

But then again, I've never heard of the rhyme either, being from Germany originally xD

Still, if I had more money, I'd buy the shirt just for the 3.1415 part ^^

Hehehe whoa dude.



*gurgle gurgle gurgle*

but everything's not about pot?

yeah, anyone unfamiliar with every cultures idiosyncratic nuances is an absolute moron.

Both 4/20 and "Sing a song of sixpence" come from the same basic Anglo-American culture. It's not like I'm expecting people from all over the world to know them; I'm just hella surprised that people who know about 4/20 don't get that it's a reference to the nursery rhyme when it's talking about blackbirds in a pie.

THANK YOU



Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened the birds began to sing.

What a dainty dish to set before the king!

i can chalk that up with about a hundred more nursery rhymes that i don't know the words too.

and, i can almost guarantee that bc it's an ENGLISH nursery rhyme i forgot it on purpose.

Still don't care for the shirt.

And they're pot smokers, what do you expect?

I've never ever heard that nursery rhyme before... That's probably why I only though of 4/20..

And what does cannabis have to do with blackbirds?

alexandra just stop. if you don't see the similairty between 4/20 and, uh, 4 n 20 then you may be beyond help.

the condescension in this blog is thick ... almost fishbowled -

um- that "4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie" is from a nursery rhyme from people who had never heard of pot. Quit looking for refs that aren't there for pete's sake! That is rediculous

look... its just a nursery rhyme, yes... but it still says 4-20 on the shirt. which is fucking awesome.



so it doesnt matter what meaning is intended, in the end... cause people are gonna read whatever they want into it. so no interpretation is "right" or "wrong"... just some are intentional (as far as the artist goes) and some are fabricated otherwise.



and i dont know why it cant be both.



and as far as im concerned if you dont agree with me, and are gonna be all black and white about it, you can go fuck yourself because your head is clearly positioned four hundred twenty inches up your ass.



im kidding on that last bit.



but seriously, chill out.

Yeah dude, I guess I've never heard that nursery rhyme. When I don't understand a reference on a shirt, I just go to the blogs. Thanks dudes. haha

rediculous





teganjean, did you mean ridiculous?

Interesting that you point out spelling errors, and yet can't seem to grasp the whole "capitalization" thing.

hell, i'm from norway and even i know the nursery rhyme.

i've actually never heard that nursery rhyme.

i didn't think it was a 4/20 reference, but I was a little confused.

shirtflirt, if you're saying that the rhyme's not as well-known in America as it is in England, than I am less surprised/freaked that people jumped straight to pot day. But I do still find it bizarre. *shrug*



DrPanglosso, sure I understand that people come up with their own meanings for stuff, and if people want to wear it to show they like to eat to pie when they get the munchies or whatever then that's fine - but people thinking that it was an intended reference to 4/20 is what I really don't get.

just to please the UK people there should have been an empty space on one with a tag saying something like "who ate all the..."



as for the 4 and 20 who gives a monkeys, i got it cos I have 2 kids under 3.

Haha, that would have been cool.

i know of rhymes and words of far away lands.

and that dope creates cognitive wastelands

but a 4-20 reference i;v never heard

apart from the humble half-baked blackbird

also i like this shirt hey...except for the section of stars and stripes. couldnt really justify goin that far for an awesome shirt

Wow, I love the way people get so worked up about the meanings of T-shirts!

Thought I'd throw an interesting thing out there, something I read recently though I can't vouch for its veracity. Apparently the rhyme used to be "black birds" not "Blackbirds", referring to that old English delicacy Rook Pie. Delicious.

I think the perspective of the piechart is off -- or maybe that's the whiskey talkin'

(Confused Australian) Does 4-20 refer to a significant date in US history? I googled April 20 and discovered that:



-In 1775, the British began the siege of Boston Massachusetts.



-In 1999, the Columbine High School massacre took place in Littleton Colorado.



-Finally, for time- traveling historical interventionists, in 1889, Adolf Hitler was born.



I'm pretty sure you fellas aren't talking about Hitler... What ARE you talking about?



...We know the rhyme here too.

here you go buddy



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29

I'm gobsmacked! Never heard of it (or if Ihave it hasn't sunk in). So all the mull drongos were too stonkered with their dodgy-durry arvo bludge to remember to sing a song of sixpence...!

(For the Seppos, that's about $0.12US)



Thanks heaps, deadpuppy.