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Title: Hippy Slang of the 60's - Can You Dig It?
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URL Source: http://www.socyberty.com/Subculture ... the-60s---Can-You-Dig-It.57341
Published: Nov 11, 2007
Author: Darlene McFarlene
Post Date: 2007-11-11 10:15:46 by Darlene
Keywords: Culture freedom, hippies, love , peace, Protest, rebellion, slang
Views: 2152
Comments: 25

The 60’s. It was a time of political controversy, rebellion, protest marches, bras burning, bare feet, and flower power. From the dust of the 60’s turmoil rose a new cultural lifestyle with a new breed of people: We called them Hippies.

They were children of peace who criticized middle class values, rebelled against established institutions and were dead against the Vietnam War. They were a new and liberated class of people who gave preference to freedom, love, and peace. They were set apart from others by the way they looked, how they thought, and how they spoke....

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#4. To: Darlene (#0)

I take it back. "Groovey" meant "It sucks".

I just got a parking ticket. Ain't that groovey?

...  posted on  2007-11-11   10:33:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: ... (#4)

Sorry to hear about the ticket. BTW, it's spelled "groovy":

www.answers.com/groovy&r=67 and it means, like cool, very cool. "cool" was a beatnik term, from the early 50s.

robin  posted on  2007-11-11   10:39:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: robin (#5) (Edited)

"Sorry to hear about the ticket. BTW, it's spelled "groovy""

Right on baby, it was groovy and outragiously cosmic for you to correct this. Great trip being a hippie, a species that exists in large numbers in Eugene, Oregon.

By the way, here is the best thing in the Hippie world: Hippie Chicks! ;-)

Hippie Girl I don't know why this is not posting properly, so here is the You Tube URL for that: http://youtube.com/watch? v=GoTjMAMs98c

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-11-11   11:10:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Ferret Mike. hippie chicks (#9)

Lod  posted on  2007-11-11   11:26:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: lodwick (#10)

Cool dude, like thanks man. You're groovy. ;-D

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-11-11   11:27:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#12. To: Ferret Mike (#11)

Hard to believe that the summer of love was almost forty years ago...

Lod  posted on  2007-11-11 11:34:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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