# What do you call the hippy dippy art teacher new age chick drawl? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646 "2009-05-26T03:18:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/101 "2009-06-02T21:10:36Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Here’s a real-like male version of the inflection. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ8FTWcspQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ8FTWcspQ) “You can call me a spiritual healer, a shaman, or a medicine man.” Is “douchebag” an option? ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/102 "2009-06-02T21:40:25Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > BA in Art, Master of Clinical Counseling. There ya go! I’d attribute the accent more to partying in art school than counsel-speak. Although it probably is a career choice many art students and other semi-professional partiers end up making, so the confusion is excusable.😃 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/103 "2009-06-02T23:09:08Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > This is a bit off from some of the descriptions, but the art teacher from “Ghost World” might be a close match for an example… > > [Here’s part #4 of the movie (which seems to have been uploaded in its entirety)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91GSRmv2ZeA&feature=PlayList&p=22067204D835C139&index=25), which starts off midway through the teacher’s “art film” being shown to a group of students. You get a good feel for her personality in the first minute and a half of the clip. Yeah, that’s pretty close. Funny thing is, I was a performance art major in college, but my teacher was a middle-aged punk lesbian who specialized in guerilla confrontational art, and NEVER explained herself. Very cool broad, and about 180 degrees different from the performance art douchebag of the _Ghost World_ clip. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/104 "2009-06-03T04:14:14Z")
> [@not\_alice](#): > > There ya go! > > I’d attribute the accent more to partying in art school than counsel-speak. It’s definitely not her full-time voice, though; just when someone is traumatized. She even labeled it as “insincere” when it’s used as a default. Okay … I think I found a female example. Difficult to find, since it’s hard to know what to search for. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8dIuMTOACH8/hqdefault.jpg "Conversations with Chris Griscom") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dIuMTOACH8) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/105 "2009-06-03T18:43:24Z")
The examples of New Age gurus talking to a video camera don’t carry the full range of inflections you’d hear in a two-way interactive live conversation. Know what I mean? Oh, I _so_ know what you mean by that!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646.md?page=5)