# The hippies are getting worse... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999 "2013-03-15T12:42:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/41 "2013-03-16T00:05:44Z")
Sounds like a bad attempt at a joke (or whomever was writing the ad copy for the packaging was drinking their bong water Probably just a lame joke attempt What I wonder is why my American Made Spyderco knives have a tang stamp on them that says; “Golden, Colorado” “U.S.A. Earth” Guess we need to watch out for those Martian-made Spyderco knock offs… ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/42 "2013-03-16T00:26:09Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > “Golden, Colorado” > “U.S.A. Earth” Yeah, but which Earth is it? The one in the Milky Way or the one in Andromeda? The state motto of Andromeda Colorado is “We make really shitty knives!” ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/43 "2013-03-18T00:12:49Z")
[kargh… another spyderco fanatic beat me to it!] ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/44 "2013-03-18T00:34:26Z")
So we’re going the Douglas Adams route, only starting with bean sprouts instead of cows? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/45 "2013-03-20T17:08:06Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > I imagine it’s a serious effort to summarize the environmental basis for organic farming, as opposed to the product-quality one which is all about the poisons not present in that particular bunch of sprouts. When it comes to something I’m going to eat, I’d rather the farmer was focused on the poisons than the interconnectedness. ---
**Author:** ![vd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/46 "2013-03-20T17:50:26Z")
My uncle lost his farm because big-interconnected drove him under. Those bastards! ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/47 "2013-03-20T22:57:55Z")
I don’t think it’s dumb; go, hippies, is what I say. I am all pro- interconnectedness. meanwhile it IS dumb that my shampoo bottle says “gluten free”!! ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/48 "2013-03-20T23:06:04Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > These sprouts are grown with the conscious awareness of the interconnectedness of everything and all life …by a bunch of posers. For “stupider”, though, I’d nominate the allergy warning on the last box of shredded wheat I bought. In case you missed “Shredded wheat” on every one of the box’s six sides, usually accompanied by “100% whole wheat”, there was the small print on one side: “ALLERGY WARNING: Contains wheat ingredients”. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/49 "2013-03-21T03:43:56Z")
That’s company-CYAism, though. Nothing hippie about it. (You can also find cartons of eggs with their allergenic ingredient carefully noted.) ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/50 "2013-03-21T05:52:15Z")
I grew up in a very non-hippie household, but we at sprouts a lot cause…um…they didn’t even require DIRT to grow. We had them in jars of water on the windowsills. That’s gotta be about the easiest food in the world to NOT use pesticides on, no? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/51 "2013-03-21T12:33:01Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > We’re all human beans. Especially **Filbert**. Oh, wait, sorry, no. Filbert, I can clearly see you’re nuts. (You know, the guy walks into the psychiatrist’s office, wearing nothing but cellophane…) ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/52 "2013-03-21T21:26:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > There’s a difference between interconnectedness and similarity. So no, that’s not what they’re saying. At all. It just means they support string theory, so _Good bye, and Thanks for all the Fish_. 😉 Thanks, **Chimera**. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999/53 "2013-03-21T21:57:39Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I really hope not, I ate half the packet already, and now I’m worried the survivors will be plotting against me :eek: At least you didn’t get eaten by a turnip last week. I did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hippies-are-getting-worse/652999.md?page=2)