WaIIy wrote:
On 6 Oct 2003 21:18:28 -0500, noah
wrote:

The fact that more than 50% of the posts here are OT doesn't make it
right. That's the same mentality that encourages "bad boating".
Everybody wants to do what they want to do, and without respect for
guidelines and convention.

Yes, the former hippies are catching up. They can do whatever the hell
they want and we can deal with the result.


You couldn't deal a game of solitaire, Wally.

Yes, the former hippies are catching up.

Hippies. There's a myth for you. Just another stereotype that's easy for those
who feel compelled to categorize everybody all the time.

Never existed. It was a term invented by the press.

In the late 60's my travels took me, briefly, to a communal farm in Davenport,
WA. Nobody there even used the word. Some pals and I split school for a few
weeks to go to the Haight- none there, either. The very same people who the
press would have said epitomized "hippism" would never define themselves as
such.

The only people I ever met in the 60's who said "look at me, I'm a hippie!"
were goofy junior high kids from the suburbs who bought plastic peace symbols
and pop beads at Sears.

Best line on the subject I can remember from those days was a reply to a
newspaper reporter. I can't remember who said it. A reporter asked somebody who
was fairly high profile in the anti-war movement, "What's it like to be a
hippie?"

The answer was brilliant: "I'm not a hippie, I'm a human being." Right on,
man. :-)

In New Mexico where I was raised we certainly knew who and what hippies were
and we had a bunch of them. I never met one that I didn't like.

They were easy to catagorize by dress, language, mannerisms, life style, and
drug use.

I suppose there were no beatnicks?

Butch

Gould wrote: Hippies. There's a myth for you. Just another stereotype that's
easy for
those
who feel compelled to categorize everybody all the time.

Never existed. It was a term invented by the press.

In the late 60's my travels took me, briefly, to a communal farm in
Davenport,
WA. Nobody there even used the word. Some pals and I split school for a few
weeks to go to the Haight- none there, either. The very same people who the
press would have said epitomized "hippism" would never define themselves as
such.

The only people I ever met in the 60's who said "look at me, I'm a hippie!"
were goofy junior high kids from the suburbs who bought plastic peace symbols
and pop beads at Sears.

Best line on the subject I can remember from those days was a reply to a
newspaper reporter. I can't remember who said it. A reporter asked somebody
who
was fairly high profile in the anti-war movement, "What's it like to be a
hippie?"

The answer was brilliant: "I'm not a hippie, I'm a human being." Right on,
man. :-)

Up here in NH we had them. Yes the word was coined, but we all know what it
means after the fact. I know an old hippie when I see one.

-W

"JDavis1277" wrote in message
...
In New Mexico where I was raised we certainly knew who and what hippies
were
and we had a bunch of them. I never met one that I didn't like.

They were easy to catagorize by dress, language, mannerisms, life style,
and
drug use.

I suppose there were no beatnicks?

Butch

Gould wrote: Hippies. There's a myth for you. Just another stereotype
that's
easy for
those
who feel compelled to categorize everybody all the time.

Never existed. It was a term invented by the press.

In the late 60's my travels took me, briefly, to a communal farm in
Davenport,
WA. Nobody there even used the word. Some pals and I split school for a
few
weeks to go to the Haight- none there, either. The very same people who
the
press would have said epitomized "hippism" would never define themselves
as
such.

The only people I ever met in the 60's who said "look at me, I'm a
hippie!"
were goofy junior high kids from the suburbs who bought plastic peace
symbols
and pop beads at Sears.

Best line on the subject I can remember from those days was a reply to a
newspaper reporter. I can't remember who said it. A reporter asked
somebody
who
was fairly high profile in the anti-war movement, "What's it like to be a
hippie?"

The answer was brilliant: "I'm not a hippie, I'm a human being." Right
on,
man. :-)