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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