[tcb] Re: Hippies
- From: Neil <nbmdude@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:39:54 -0800 (PST)
I'm with ya...it would be difficult to factor out all
the influences in our history...good or bad, its a
part of us...my step father said many times that all
the hippies should be lined up and shot...he was not
kidding. He tore up my favorite paisley print shirt
when I was 15, threatenin' to beat me (more than
usual) if I replaced it. In response, I ran away from
home...to San Fran. Met some great folks, saw many
wonderful things in the Panhandle, then got picked up
as a runaway and returned to Tull, Arkansas to 'get
the hippie beat outta me'...must not have worked.
But, we all have likes and dislikes and thats the way
it should be!
--- thatvwguy@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I think my comment may have been misconstrued...
> I'm not making a comment on the hippy culture past
> or present, I'm just saying you don't have to be a
> full fledged stereotypical hippy to share some
> "hippy" traits/values. I think most bus owners have
> some of these traits/values regardless of their
> background or lifestyle.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
>
> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:11:05
> To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Hippies
>
>
> I figured Neil would get injured if we're talking
> about hating hippies. I
> was actually in a commune, but it was in the early
> 70s and none of us ever
> called them that. I never knew anyone that had
> flowers or psychedelic stuff
> on their cars. We all had to work or contribute
> money to the collective pot
> (did I say pot?) or you had to leave.
>
> My hair is way longer than it was then, I never wore
> tie dye, but I do now,
> on occasion. I quit shaving one year out of high
> school. I take the fifth on
> smoking, never licked a toad (never was offered
> one). I like showers, I am
> extremely unemployed, well, except by my wife. I do
> love a road trip. Not a
> rasta.
>
> I think the number one cultural thing that I miss
> from those days, although
> one could argue that feminism had a bigger hand than
> hippie culture, was
> women without bras. Which I guess shows that one can
> be a hippie and still
> be a pig.
>
> Ah, memories.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neil" <nbmdude@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:47 AM
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Hippies
>
>
> Hippies died in 1967...it wuz in the papers...they
> even had a funeral procession.
> I resemble pretty much everything you mentioned
> (except the toad lickin' yuck!)...
> I'm tryin' to figure out what the point is???
> The hippies (I prefer diggers) were a part of our
> American history...they (we) STILL influence our
> art,
> literature, fashions, conversations, etc.
> If we could ban specific parts of our history, I
> think
> I could find better ones to try to ban...maybe
> slavery, or perhaps the type of corporate greed
> evidenced by the Enron scandal (and Pres Bush, to
> whom
> the Enron folks contributed to heavily)...
> Now, what exactly wuz da point again?
> --- ThatVWGuy@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I'm going to have to play the devils advocate
> here.
> > If you own a bus
> > chances are you have a little of the hippy spirit
> in
> > you. That
> > doesn't mean you are a tie dye wearing, long
> haired,
> > unshaven (legs
> > for the women, faces for the men)dope smokin, toad
> > lickin, bath
> > avoiding, unemployed, road trippin, rastafarian.
> >
> > But chances are you do more of the work on your
> bus
> > than the average
> > lemming does on their Accord and find it
> enjoyable,
> > you enjoy road
> > trips and camping, you enjoy the journey as much
> as
> > the destination,
> > you don't have to spend a lot of money to have
> fun,
> > and your not
> > afraid to laugh out loud. I'm sure there is more
> > but you get the idea.
> >
> > >>> Just because I own a bus that gets thrown into
> > the hippie category
> > does not make me a hippie. I am way too vicious
> to
> > be a hippie. I
> > don't ever own sandals and I can't remember ever
> > having flowers in my
> > hair. I like to think of my bus as a happy bus
> not
> > a hippie bus.
> > There are no peace signs, no political statements,
> > no dancing teddy
> > bears, and no drug symbols just fun generic art.
> >
> > Julie <<<
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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