Dub
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I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember.
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Post by Dub on Sept 29, 2024 20:26:18 GMT -5
All you people born before 1963 are hippies to me. I’m guessing 1953 would be a better dividing line. Also, I’m sort of on the dividing line. Some people my age were hippies but the number drops off pretty fast for people born in ‘41 or ‘40. |
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Post by drlj on Sept 29, 2024 20:36:53 GMT -5
We didn’t trust anyone over 30 so if there were old hippies around, we assumed they were narcs.
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 29, 2024 21:03:07 GMT -5
"All you people born before 1963 are hippies to me.'
Are you trying to bum my trip, man?
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Post by TKennedy on Sept 29, 2024 22:03:59 GMT -5
The full blown hippie thing in the midwest seemed to start right after I got out of college in 1967. I equated it to the availability of birth control pills.
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Post by John B on Sept 29, 2024 22:06:45 GMT -5
All you people born before 1963 are hippies to me. I’m guessing 1953 would be a better dividing line. Also, I’m sort of on the dividing line. Some people my age were hippies but the number drops off pretty fast for people born in ‘41 or ‘40. Actually, I was just trying to exclude Todd and Joe S from the hippie label. All the rest of you are Damn Hippies, except for the Beats. On edit: some of you are Mods, or Rockers. And some of you are Mockers. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Sept 29, 2024 23:27:20 GMT -5
At my age, I'm hep. If I'm lucky, anyway. Otherwise I'm just another old fart with no idea who those people on the magazine covers are and why I should care about their heartbreaks.
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Post by John B on Sept 30, 2024 5:42:11 GMT -5
At my age, I'm hep. If I'm lucky, anyway. Otherwise I'm just another old fart with no idea who those people on the magazine covers are and why I should care about their heartbreaks. Or their perils.  |
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Post by howard lee on Sept 30, 2024 6:20:03 GMT -5
The full blown hippie thing in the midwest seemed to start right after I got out of college in 1967. I equated it to the availability of birth control pills.
1967 was the Summer of Love. That was the beginning of the end.
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 30, 2024 6:44:17 GMT -5
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Post by coachdoc on Oct 2, 2024 15:09:24 GMT -5
Made a Trader Joe's run this morning, as well as a Morelli's run -- had 15 mins to kill before the latter opened, so I parked in the huge, empty National Guard lot at nearby St. Paul Downtown Airport to watch air ops. A white SUV pulled alongside me, passenger window down, and a guy with a German accent asked me where the main terminal building was, explaining that they had a flight to catch. Except no scheduled airlines operate out of St. Paul, so they were obviously looking for MSP, easily 20 miles away. I suggested they just type MSP into their GPS app and wished them well. But I wondered -- how did this happen? Assuming they were visitors, did they not fly INTO MSP, rent a car and know where the airport was, more or less? Hoping they had a big time cushion -- fortunately, there is a speedy route from where they were to where they needed to be. Hmmph. Morelli is Stephanie Plum’s boyfriend. |
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