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I have a good friend who has been teasing me a lot recently (non-offensively) about growing my hair out. She's always calling me a hippy. I have to admit that I'm very "hippy-ish", since I like health food, and natural products...and I have long hair. I realize that some "hippy aspects" presented by society have been disrespectful to long haired men. So, if this offends anyone, please accept my apologies.
Anyway, one day I found this wave file that I use, now, as my Windows exit sound. It makes me laugh when I hear it. So, I thought I'd try to share it with you (hopefully this will work).
I think you can "right-click" on the link and choose "Save target as..." to download it if you want it.
Banana
P.S. If you don't know what a hippy is look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippy
Beat it hippy wave file
We do have hippy people in San Francisco, and you will know them by the bus tipping to the right when they board.
Bill
Hey, you're a hippy hippie! If you are really with it, you are a hip hippy hippie. And if you're really out of sight, you are a trippy hip hippy hippie! Groovy beyond cosmic, man.
Bill
If a simple word offends anyone, then they have come to the wrong place.
I have been tagged many times in the local newspaper as being "Baton Rouge's Hippie".
And I was wondering if I should correct it, but it looks as though Bill beat me to it...Hippie.
peace
clayton
Banana, Thanks for posting the article and photo of the the Russian hippie. If wikapedias take on hippies is true I think we need many many more. It's not words that count but a persons actions and deeds.
peace, jonalbear
Hey, cool sound there.
What I like most though, is that picture of the russian hippie, with watching all the news and history channels about hippies in the US and UK, I forgot they were back in my ancestor's homeland too lol.
My favourite explanation of the hippies is found here:-
http://members.aol.com/Fredwaite/hippies.html
This also explains that most of the people labelled as "hippies" are actually "freaks". I'm a freak and proud of it! OTOH, if people want to call me a hippy (or even a hippie, which many argue is the right spelling in the singular as well as the plural), it's fine by me.
Keep your freak flag flying! (For those too young to know, that means don't cut your hair short, because your "freak flag" is your long hair)
"Freak Flag" comming from the popular CSNY (Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young) song "Almost Cut My Hair". Bill and I have "sung" this song a few times over in the chat board in the wee hours of the night......If you've never heard it, I recommend it.
peace
clayton
Same here, because the word no longer has the negative connotation it once had, at least not among the longhaired. It is one now embraced by many.
In the 1960s, "hippie" was the only spelling often seen. It was used to describe an individual, of course, but generally in a negative sense and by an older generation. We all called ourselves "freaks". The plural was used to describe the freaky crowd in general, as well as a group of a few individuals.
The 1970s brought long hair on lots of people, and with the end of the war, far more mainstream people had long hair than did radical people. The term "hippie" to describe an individual by how he looked mostly disappeared. No one called anyone that much anymore, for two reasons. One was that it was seen as perjorative, and the other was that the hippie look did not for awhile look that out of place anymore. People did talk historically about "the hippies", though, so today's younger generations mostly saw the word in the plural.
Over time the word lost its negative connotation enough while the meaning of "freak" was lost on younger people, so we began seeing individual longhairs called "a hippie" again. These younger people had seen the word "hippies" and some thought that if one of a litter of puppies was a puppy, then one of a group of hippies must be a hippy. However, the plural of both "y" words and "ie" words ends in "ies", and this reverse-engineering endeavor led to a wrong result. The spelling is "hippie".
The word "freak" appears in considerable literature and music from the era if you look for it. For example, "Longhaired freaky people need not apply" in the song "Signs" (Five Man Electrical Band) was referring to hippies, not to freaks like you see at a circus.
Bill
Ahh Bill,
You have done it again. You have left me bewildered with your knowledge.
peace
Hell, I'm just old enough to remember all that stuff.
Bill
Hey Bill, Glad you still have your memory! he he And all that gorgeous white hair everywhere!
peace, jonalbear
Freaks have more fun anyway.
When I bring up the fact that "freaks" is the more accepted term I get plenty of weird looks. To me I've always been a freak, just recently a "hippie" due to the present tenses of it useage.
peace
A couple of other terms:
"Flower children"
"Neo-hippies"
Again, if you look at the Fred Waite article he classifies hippies, or at least people who came directly after the original hippies of Haight Ashbury, into three groups (which may still overlap), i.e. flower children, freaks and heads, out of which I would say I was a freak. Essentially, the flower children would have been the people who dropped out of regular soceity, and freaks those who didn't, whereas the heads were the druggies. There again, Bill may have been there on Haight and he also says he is a freak, and that other people called them hippies.
Neo-hippies, OTOH are mentionned in the Wikipedia article, as being more recent, i.e. people who were not there at the time, but younger people who have similar philosophies.