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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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#1. To: Darlene (#0)
What I remember most is that a "lid" costs $15. *sob*
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Say what you will about the excesses of the 60's and the navel gazing- but I have a new found respect for the rebellion that did occur. Granted it wasn't always directed at the right things and took some wrong turns into weirdness- but at least they took stands and their rebellion was real. Now- it seems teen angst and rebellion is all contrived and even managed. There is no rebellion. I don't see any intellecuals or artists in this country who are slightly interesting or daring. I would call most of what passes for art in this country obscene but to have obscenity there needs to be moral standards. There arent'. What passes for "rebellion" in this country is just puerile, stupid, and irrelevent.
Women were always called "chicks". By about 1969 "hippy" was an insult reserved for posers. If you were Ok, then you were a "head". I never heard anyone say "far out" or "groovey" except for the "hippies" described above. A piece of anything was a "hit", e.g., if someone was eathing cake and you wanted some you would say "gimme a hit off that cake". Wine and other alcoholic drinks were called "panther piss". But I don't know if this was universal or not.
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I take it back. "Groovey" meant "It sucks". I just got a parking ticket. Ain't that groovey?
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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.
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In the fall of '65, at the Student Union Bldg there was one table in the corner with maybe ten 'hippies,' eight years later, the situation had reversed itself. It really was a revolution of sorts.
The Civil Rights movement, the anti-war (Vietnam of course) movement - "How many babies have you killed?", anti-establishment "Question Authority" and "Do it now" ideas, Seat-ins, Love-ins, all began small - like boys being suspended from school for wearing their hair below their ears, then below their collars; while the girls were shortening their skirts at an even faster rate - at the knee, measured in homeroom, X # of inches above the knee, (we were not allowed to wear slacks or jeans to school). Hair and skirt length were outward signs of where you stood socially and politically; something not true today.
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Like, groovy thread, baby. But like man, Hippie ain't spelled 'Hippy.' Man that just bums my trip when I see such gaffs, but if mis-spelling is your thing baby, then far out and groovy. But if you are not tuned in and dropped out enough to know correct hippie spellings, worry not, man. You have hippies here who can set you straight on the right way to spell.
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.
I recently went to a rave type event with a band I know. There were thousands of these neo-hippie kids there in their tie-dye and dredlocks. It really did look like the Cow Palace in about 1968 except these kids were more decked out. As I recall, few people actually had the full montey back in those days, e.g., the long hear, clothing, etc. Everyone wanted it, but most looked pretty ordinary. There wasn't a short haired kid in the whole crowd at the thing I went to. About a week later I had dinner with some people who had been involved in the SF back in the 60s. I told them about the rave and how hilarious it had been to be in with a bunch of hippie kids. They actually got pissey about it. Acted like the kids were ripping off their thing and that they were the genuine articles. Really weird.
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Bizarre. Pass'em the blunt and tell'em to chill.
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 I'm thinking of building a bus like that. Saw one in Northern California in the early 1980s that was well done. Wood stove, Indian tapestry for a headliner, professional paint job, really functional bath and kitchen, etc. I've been looking at cabins far up in the hills here and I've been thinking that if I had the bus I could just buy the land and put in septic and utilities - and then blow off building the cabin. I could also then use the bus to go to music festivals and such. I figure it would take about a year to get the bus going. Still mulling it over. Driving a regular motor home would make me feel like an old fart.
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If you watch the Movie, 'Independence Day' when Dennis Quad is driving his RV across the salt flats there is a hippie bus a friend of mine owns right behind the shot driving to his left. They frantically flagged him down and begged him to be part of the extras and their vehicles for that movie. In fact, they had filmed much more scenes involving that bus they didn't get to use. I sat in that bus getting smoked out before going into the theater to see that movie. That was interesting. There are hundreds of 'hippie buses' in Eugene, and air coled VWs still are common. (I think they come here to die.) You are on the right track for an RV, a bus is much nore a statement then a a swine- abago like most RVs are. Here is the original Furthur, the new one is the torch carrier of the 'Are you on the bus?' trip, but at the Kesey Ranch in Pleasent Hill nearby, the one the Smithsonian Wants still molders. Hungry freaks, daddy.
I just want everyone to know that I was the first (to my knowledge) to coin the use of the word "mellow", man.
Dig it, man.
Trick it out.
Back when, after The Pill, it was like rabbit-nation. I don't know that much has changed since, except the threat of STD's.
I agree with you. I loved everything about the 60's including the sit-ins, demonstrations and the fact that out of it all came changes that were necessary. The Hippies may not have got the credit but anyone who was around during that time knows the truth. They were a gutsy bunch and stood up for what they believed.
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"Sorry to hear about the ticket. BTW, it's spelled "groovy""
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"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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They actually got pissey about it. Acted like the kids were ripping off their thing and that they were the genuine articles. Really weird.
#17. To: lodwick (#14)
"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."
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I've already said too much.
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Driving a regular motor home would make me feel like an old fart.
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