Did you know...

[Warbaby]

...today (April 20th) is the birthday of the little-known German artist Adolph Hitler.

 

[Silver Dollar]

Today is 20 April. PBPBPBPBBPBTTT right in da Fuhrer's face.

 

[Warbaby]

Oops - forgot what month this is...:eusa_doh:

Yep, it's April 20th.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

April 20th is also special for the hippy culture. :eusa_doh:

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It is also Harold Lloyd's birthday.

 

[Tomasso]

In the '86 playoffs Jordan dropped 63 on the Celtics at the Boston Garden.

 

[Silver Dollar]

In 1942, the Doolittle Raiders were trudging their way through China after they bombed Tokyo on 18 April.

 

[Warbaby]

April 20th is also special for the hippy culture. :eusa_doh:

Hey - I was a hippie back in the 60s - what did I miss on April 20th?

 

[Slim Portly]

...today (April 20th) is the birthday of the little-known German artist Adolph Hitler.

I don't want to come off as too critical, but if that painting is representative of his oeuvre, I'm not crazy about the guy.

 

[Paisley]

Also the day of the Columbine Massacre.

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Eric Hoffer said that fanatics are often frustrated (no-talent?) creative types.

 

[Viola]

Hey - I was a hippie back in the 60s - what did I miss on April 20th?

It's probably more well-known now than then.

420, 4:20 or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) refers to consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis subculture. The date 4/20 is sometimes referred to as "Weed Day" or "Pot Day".[1]

The term was coined from a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971

 

[Tomasso]

It's probably more well-known now than then.

Or WB has some memory issues.

 

[Warbaby]

Or WB has some memory issues.

Well, yeah, there are a few years that I don't remember all that clearly. It's probably just as well...

 

[Mr_D.]

April 20th is also special for the hippy culture. :eusa_doh:

Not just hippies

 

[Spitfire]

...today (April 20th) is the birthday of the little-known German artist Adolph Hitler.

Just imagine what the world would have been like, had he been a better artist.
Just to quote Eddie Izzard: "Damn I can't get the bloody trees right, I am going to kill everubody in the world!"

 

[Silver Dollar]

I don't want to come off as too critical, but if that painting is representative of his oeuvre, I'm not crazy about the guy.

Don't worry about being too critical, the Austrian critics didn't like him either. He was a pretty good painter though. He could do a 3 bedroom apartment in one afternoon, two coats.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Hitler as an artist was a competent draftsman but that was pretty much the limit of his artistic talent. Actually his original dream was to become an architect rather than an artist. According to August Kubizek, Hitler's former roommate as a young man in Linz, Austria, the future Führer would talk his ear off ad nauseum about his grandiose plans to rebuild Linz and Vienna.

 

[Paisley]

Hitler as an artist was a competent draftsman but that was pretty much the limit of his artistic talent.

He should have stuck with drafting. The perspective in the painting is OK, but the composition...where to begin?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Other April 20 Births

It is also Harold Lloyd's birthday.

Muhammed -- founder of Islam (571 AD)
Napoleon III -- Emperor of France, 1852-70 (1808)
Joan Miro -- Spanish painter (1893)
Bruce Cabot -- King Kong actor (1904)
George Takei -- Star Trek's Mr. Sulu (1937)
Ryan O'Neal (1941)
Jessica Lange (1949)
Crispin Clover -- nerdy Back to the Future actor (1964)

 

[MisterCairo]

Or WB has some memory issues.

I hear that if you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there...