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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
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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?
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.
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
Cool dude, like thanks man. You're groovy. ;-D
Hard to believe that the summer of love was almost forty years ago...
As High Holy Hippie Elders like the Grateful Dead would say, "the farther you go, the rounder you get." ;-) The Hippie lifestyle is alive and well in Eugene, Oregon which was an enclave - much like Arcadia, CA - after the early 70s where counterculture settled and raised their kids. Locally we have sub-lables, "neo-hippie" for kids of Hippies loyal to the cultural groove involved with being counter culture, Rainbows, Granolas, and other slang terms for members of the Hippie cultural subset. I do not have a day here in Eugene, Oregon where being Hippified is passe. It is a very real thing here. Dig it.
I'm not sure exactly what 'happened' to Austin: most of the kids cleaned up, opened businesses and went establishment here. Although many of them are now retiring and kickin' it these days, there are more and more graying pony-tails, beards, and bandanna's to be seen.
#17. To: lodwick (#14)
Many have always looked like that here, and my picture in my nick link doesn't show me to be not affected by my upbringing. ;-) The biggest thing going in downtown Eugene, Oregon economically is Saturday Market, which was born in 1970 when several Hippies refused to roll up their 'unauthorized' trading blankets in the new Downtown Mall. There are a huge number of Hippie derived businesses and communes locally. Ken Kesey's Sister has the highly successful Springfield Creamery -- why for that matter there is even a statue of Ken in the very epi-center of downtown Eugene at Willamette and Broadway. Ken Kesey reading to his grand kids The Keseys also have a highly successful cultural arts center in Downtown Eugene, and Further lives here, and is a vehicle (Are you on the bus?) that is very much a treasured Eugene, Oregon Icon The Kesey family commercial website: Key-Z.com
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#9. To: robin (#5)
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"Sorry to hear about the ticket. BTW, it's spelled "groovy""
#10. To: Ferret Mike. hippie chicks (#9)
#11. To: lodwick (#10)
#12. To: Ferret Mike (#11)
#13. To: lodwick (#12)
"Hard to believe that the summer of love was almost forty years ago..."
#14. To: Ferret Mike (#13)
I do not have a day here in Eugene, Oregon where being Hippified is passe. It is a very real thing here. Dig it.
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