hippie thread

[sniffa]

are you a hippie? check in and prove it.

[LSK]

1. I was at a protest and took this pic

Does that qualify me?

[meegbear]

2. I was in San Francisco and went to the HaightAshbury Festival ...

I bought a tiedye shirt and I gave the GAP store that was there the finger.

[Beer Snob-50]

3. i took trans love airlines to san francisco california

which, for our european bretheren, is on the west coast.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Whether you know it or not

you're beautiful. :7

[Squeech]

4. Dunno

You tell me. Just because my hair hasn't been cut in a dozen years, and I sing along with "Estimated Prophet."

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Not quite.

[wildhorses]

6. i partied at the allman brother's house back in '73--

they were on the road touring at the time

does that qualify :shrug:

[sniffa]

7. nope

where are the pictures? i want Long hair, tydied and birkonstocks.

[wildhorses]

23. --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu8sKc6g2E0

[zanne]

8. I lived in a commune.

Best time of my life.

[momophile]

9. I won "best hippie costume" in high school...

and I wasn't dressed up that day.

[mike_c]

10. I am a real hippie-- born in the early '50's...

...grew up in the sixties, been a stoner for nearly 40 years, have never cut my hair. Tuned in, turned on, and dropped out. Now I'm back in Babylon, but I'm still a hippie. I do not own a suit or a tie and I never will.

[XemaSab]

34. But you actually know what the hell you're talking about

unlike 90% of all hippies and wanna-bes in (insert town here).

[jonnyblitz]

11. i have peace in kanji tattooed on my neck.

total hippie.

[anarch]

12. I once attended a Rainbow Gathering

but it was by accident...hitch-hiking and got picked up by a coupla damned hippies. I did have long hair and a beard back then, though...hmmm.

[davsand]

13. I own more than one tie dye, and my husband is a Dead Head.

I own multiple tie dye shirts and wear them proudly--even to buy groceries in places other than the whole foods store or to go to a retail place (non Walmart, of course..) Oh, and we are at protests or on picket lines at least four times per year for one thing or another, along with going to any number of potlucks where Vegan is more common, rather than the exception.

What REALLY clarifies me as a hippie is Kevsand. He wears his denim, hand painted, Terrapin Station jacket to walk our daughter to school. He also shaves only when we're working a political campaign. He works for a progressive statewide non-profit and has been there for 20 years...

I think we qualify as hippies.

:smoke:

Laura

[momophile]

19. dang. you two are so cool.

can I be your friend?
:hi:

[davsand]

32. If "cool" is embarrassing your 9 year old then we maybe qualify!

We do manage to embarrass her with some regularity.

:evilgrin:

However she does wear a T-shirt with a Frederick Douglass quote on it that says,"Power concedes nothing without a demand..." and she did volunteer with a local social justice organization this last two summers, so she isn't exactly a little Rush clone, I guess.

She recently went on a field trip with her class from school to see an African style drumming group at the local university center. She came home and told us she wants to start hand drumming lessons back up again--those stopped last fall when she picked up an electric guitar.

Yeah, our kid is showing signs of growing up a hippie even IF she doesn't embrace it yet! She has been to peace protests, and she has marched with us for Labor related causes along with Jobs with Justice actions.

We are not "cool" I don't think, so much as socially aware and active. And you ARE our friend. The correct hippie saying is "We are ALL friends. Peace and love, man."

Come on by some time. We'll hang out in the back yard and talk politics and drink wine.


Laura

[slj0101]

14. I haven't showered since 1977, and my VW Bus runs on earwax & corn oil.

[XemaSab]

35. Is that corn oil organic?

:shrug:

[Raffi Ella]

15. No

Unfortunately,I am not.

ooh how I wish I'd been born in 1955...I woulda' made a great hippie. :hippie:

[MrCoffee]

16. ewww, hippies!

i like my hippies to smell like crap from the Body Shop and to wear their freshly laundered Gap hippie fashions.

[Connonym]

17. I own 4 pairs of birkenstocks

peace bumperstickers on my car (come on, even hippies need cars), was against the war before it was cool, don't wear makeup, don't style my hair, I compost and refuse to spray my lawn with chemicals like every other a$$hole in my neighborhood. Do I qualify?

[Kali]

18. I go barefoot almost all the time, haven't cut my hair in 25 years, (neither has the old man)

call, my SO "old man", birthed my kids at home, and lived through the 60s and 70s. Walked in a peace vigil in Berkley in in the 60s too. Man.

[sniffa]

20. you're my kind of hippy

:hi:

[Kali]

22. aww thanks

there are a few things that might disqualify me (age, carnivore and never owned a VW) but a lot of my neighbors think we are damn hippies so....

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. okay if you insist....

have a farout turkey day man!

http://song2play.com/a/arlo_guthrie-962/alices_resturant-4020/alices_restaurant_massacree-51144.html

[Whoa_Nelly]

24. Made my own bell bottoms with inset fabric 1968

Made love bead necklaces, headbands, wore a wide leather wrist band, moccassins, patches on my jeans where there really were holes, grooved to all the best of the best, and sometimes on LSD, lived in a VW camper for three years, traveling to almost everywhere west of the Mississippi with my Airedale mix dog, Flippy.


Oh! You want PROOF!!!! :P

Well!

Here's Flip from back then! The ULTIMATE in Hippie Dogdom!
(Lived to be 17, was a brownie eater (stole'em whenever he could)
and like to have his turn in the "smoking circle".

[chknltl]

25. Eric Cartman is out to get me!

But I forgive him and I find it in my heart to love him and all his little friends ..... proof enough!

[graywarrior]

27. Oh yeah.

a biggest proof of all

http://www.mediaprima.com/graywarrior/

[cwydro]

28. Well, let's see

I was only 10 in '68, but I did have some bellbottoms. I go barefoot all the time. I like to grow my own vegetables. I love Neil Young. And of course Crosby, Stills and Nash. I think pot should be legalized. I live in the Keys.:hippie: . But really, I just wanted to post the hippie smilie.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Witness:

I was out collecting on my paper route one day. I must've been 16, so it was 1972, and I had hair nearly to my shoulders.

While Mom goes to get her purse, her little boy, about 4, stands there staring up at me. Finally, he says, "Are you a hippie?"

I said, "Sure, man. Aren't we all?"

:rofl:

[tinfoil tiaras]

30. I consider myself a hippie for the most part

ideologically--anti war, democratic and all that jazz. I'm just not a vegetarian and the Greatful Dead isn't my favorite band. I consider myself a neo-hippie.

[KamaAina]

31. I saw 13 Dead shows in my day

have an acquaintance who drives an old VW Bus and once lived on a houseboat, AND I still want to ruin the country. :sarcasm:

[BikeWriter]

33. Uh, I put a peace sign on my bunker in Nam. Does that count?

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

36. Graduated from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California

so I'm *not* a hippie.

Real hippies drop out because they make you take science and math classes for your Environmental Science degree. :hide:

[leftofthedial]

37. damn hippies

always bogarting the joint

[Telly Savalas]

38. I spend about 20 minutes a day trying to levitate the Pentagon.

That's gotta count for something.