# I'm a hippie. You're a hippie. Tell me your story **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2021, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133 "2021-04-16T08:31:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/21 "2021-04-16T23:52:45Z")
Love is all you need, man. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/22 "2021-04-17T00:11:07Z")
It was a long, strange trip… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eyhTY7ZZoyo/hqdefault.jpg "Riot On Sunset Strip (1967) - Mimsy Farmer's Trip") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyhTY7ZZoyo) Sometimes it ended badly. That’s why The Man was around, to set things straight: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/u5iFVfwMnG4/hqdefault.jpg "Dragnet 1967 - Blue Boy"" In 5 Minutes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFVfwMnG4) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/23 "2021-04-17T00:31:38Z")
That freaked me out, man! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/24 "2021-04-17T01:27:13Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > It was a long, strange trip… > > Sometimes it ended badly. That’s why The Man was around, to set things straight: Then we’d write a song about it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TXVe2XH5rpk/maxresdefault.jpg "The Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Live At Monterey Pop Festival 1967)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXVe2XH5rpk&t=29) ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/25 "2021-04-17T01:31:43Z")
I’d like to be a hippy, but I can’t afford it. I have to get back to work. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/26 "2021-04-17T01:50:21Z")
I wish I brought deodorant. And Febreze. It’s smelly In this thread. Inscense don’t cover B.O. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/27 "2021-04-17T02:00:18Z")
But…the wonderful smell of a full pound of Columbian weed, spread out on a Hendrix album cover, ready for division into dime bags…Hand me those Zig Zag rolling papers! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/28 "2021-04-17T02:01:14Z")
And light some incense. It covers everything! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/29 "2021-04-17T02:02:33Z")
Go teach at an art college. SO many wannabe-hippies… …that I just have to rant. They’ve got the fashions and the speech patterns down. They’re trading vintage cassettes of Dead concerts, and sneaking joints, and painting Mom’s old mini-van to take to a Phish concert. But it doesn’t cost them anything. No one’s trying to ship them off to a Vietnam jungle, no one’s shooting them for having long hair. No cops are clubbing them just for being “a college liberal” (my friend Matt still walks with a cane). But, hey, the Neo-Hippie Kids are having a blast. So I don’t rant at them out loud. And yeah, I might be nostalgic for the camaraderie at the Jesus Freak commune (and the acoustic jams and Chucko’s _really good shit)._ And a little jealous that I can’t paint Mr. Natural on an old school bus and take off for Burning Man… ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/30 "2021-04-17T02:54:33Z")
I don’t know if this qualifies, but I was there for the Democratic Convention Riot in Chicago in 1968. I missed Woodstock a couple of weeks earlier because my ride insisted on my share of the gas money in advance. After missing the ride to Woodstock, a friend and I bought an old Ford Falcon for $20.00 and a case of beer. We drove it to Chicago and almost all the way home. We abandoned it in a small town in Iowa called Beebeetown when it quit running and hitchhiked the rest of the way home. The Sixties were a lot if fun. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/31 "2021-04-17T04:41:25Z")
@LH75 , you’re the real deal. I just ordered me some bell bottom jeans. I have the tie-dye shirts. I’m gonna freak the lil’wrekker out. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/32 "2021-04-17T04:48:20Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > And light some incense. It covers everything! And get some patchouli oil. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/33 "2021-04-17T04:53:15Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Everything in the universe is… is… is made of one element, which is a note, a single note. Atoms are really vibrations, you know, which are extensions of THE BIG NOTE. Everything’s one note. Everything, even the ponies. The note, however, is the ultimate power, but see, the pigs don’t know that, the ponies don’t know that. Right? You mean just _we_ know it? Sounds like lumpy gravy to me. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/34 "2021-04-17T05:09:12Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Sounds like lumpy gravy to me. No, man, that’s _Wavy_ Gravy. [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/da/b4/36dab436bc1249eef0443b725da49741.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/da/b4/36dab436bc1249eef0443b725da49741.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/35 "2021-04-17T05:14:38Z")
I’ve always suspected Granny Hawkins was a closet Hippy. I’ll bet them pits is hairy as a Bigfoot! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/36 "2021-04-17T06:09:34Z")
Let me tell you how the cow eats cabbage! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/37 "2021-04-17T07:40:18Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Everything in the universe is… is… is made of one element, which is a note, a single note. Atoms are really vibrations, you know, which are extensions of THE BIG NOTE. Everything’s one note. > _And the future’s been seen as men try to realize the simple secret of the note in us all._ > > _What happened to the truth? What happened to the dream? What happened to all that lovely hippie shit?_ > > –Pete Townshend ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/38 "2021-04-17T08:02:01Z")
Duuuuuuuuuude! Got the bell-bottom jeans, but I need a proper [shirt]([https://wide](https://wide) collar 70s shirt paisley print), preferably in powder blue. A pair of powder blue cords would be nice. Then I would be dressed in my favorite outfit when I was 7. And I have the Birks. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/39 "2021-04-17T08:23:31Z")
Too poor for birks. Homemade sandals(jesus boots) made of tire tread and leather. ✌ ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133/40 "2021-04-17T10:13:21Z")
I’d trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday, to be holding Bobby’s body next to mine… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133.md?page=3)