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Warpy

(110,900 posts)
187. We certainly flocked to the web starting in the 90s
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:46 PM
Feb 2013

and found each other again. It's a gift to those of us with health issues who have felt increasingly isolated by health and by the country's seeming march into totalitarian bullshit.

It's just great to be around so many younger voices chiming in against the bullshit.

You are a treasure, my dear DonRedwood! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2013 #1
Very kind Miss Peggy! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #13
Forever Young Xipe Totec Feb 2013 #181
... CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2013 #183
It's HIPPIE, by the way Warpy Feb 2013 #2
thank you for keeping me from humiliating myself DonRedwood Feb 2013 #5
they share some of those stories too DonRedwood Feb 2013 #6
I certainly did do the go-go boots thing! But they were not allowed in cotillion! calimary Feb 2013 #52
My mother had refused her coming out party Warpy Feb 2013 #84
I'm remembering tear gas in Harvard square. RILib Feb 2013 #153
I was there Warpy Feb 2013 #162
Welcome to DU, RILib! calimary Feb 2013 #167
We certainly flocked to the web starting in the 90s Warpy Feb 2013 #187
We'd love to hear your account! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #199
some morons set a car on fire, smashed store windows of small shopkeepers RILib Feb 2013 #212
Awe yes those were the good old days. I don't know how old you are but stop southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #3
We seldom appreciate what we are right now. Granny M Feb 2013 #87
My father-in-law use to say "Every day you wake up in the morning and put your feet on southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #118
Welcome to DU Granny M! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #123
Thank you, DonRedwood Granny M Feb 2013 #182
Life is like a roll of toilet paper - the closer you get to the end the faster it goes. CrispyQ Feb 2013 #201
Hahahaha now that is funny. Love your humor. southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #203
that toilet paper saying is awesome DonRedwood Feb 2013 #205
That's so sweet TuxedoKat Feb 2013 #4
I'm married to a most wonderful woman madokie Feb 2013 #7
My husband is similarly married. :-) WinkyDink Feb 2013 #24
lol! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #29
You have "cute ways"! TexasProgresive Feb 2013 #89
I was 16 in 1966 and my wife was 13 in 1966, talk about wild times! xtraxritical Feb 2013 #142
No offense here... Contrary1 Feb 2013 #8
Hey! I want to know if you did it! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #31
Nah...My poor dad couldn't have taken that. Contrary1 Feb 2013 #64
Hey, sequins take care of all kinds of things!!!! calimary Feb 2013 #166
No, they are hippie chicks Gman Feb 2013 #9
Gman, you are someone who understands that it's a state of mind as well as a time or place. Yes. The Wielding Truth Feb 2013 #81
Absolutely! Gman Feb 2013 #100
GOOD one, TWT! It IS a state of mind. That really nails it. calimary Feb 2013 #168
And it's a truly sweet state of mind. Don't you think? It would be great if everyone knew the The Wielding Truth Feb 2013 #196
k/r limpyhobbler Feb 2013 #10
Aww, that's so sweet. Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #11
My wife was a hippie chick... derby378 Feb 2013 #12
You did it for her. DonRedwood Feb 2013 #42
Thank you. I hope some people can still see the hippie chick in me at times. gateley Feb 2013 #14
After today, I have no doubt they can! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #49
I danced on the side of the stage OKNancy Feb 2013 #15
remember the pencil test? dhol82 Feb 2013 #16
OMG! I'd forgotten about the pencil test! Divernan Feb 2013 #27
yeah, pencil test? DonRedwood Feb 2013 #43
uh RILib Feb 2013 #155
Love the Mamas and the Papas, but gotta credit Scott McKenzie for that song. Scuba Feb 2013 #82
Loved this song, and Scott McKenzie just passed away on August 18, 2012 a kennedy Feb 2013 #107
A sad loss pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #145
The video of him singing the song alfredo Feb 2013 #140
Awesome. Thanks for that. Two comments... nilram Feb 2013 #170
I saw the Merry Prankster's bus. Some of them pass through town to see Ed McClannahan and alfredo Feb 2013 #192
Pencil test?... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #37
The pencil test was how you could tell Demobrat Feb 2013 #55
Nifty info. Thanks. n/t Laelth Feb 2013 #111
Ok- thanks. nt awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #125
the pencil test was to remind us that gravity is no longer our friend. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #172
Welcome to DU, dhol82! calimary Feb 2013 #54
We had to pass a nun-review before going to formal dances. Divernan Feb 2013 #114
borderline hippie! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #124
Thanks calimary dhol82 Feb 2013 #216
LOL - yep, I remember that. ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #66
I flunked it from about 14 on.... Granny M Feb 2013 #86
ROFL!!!!!!!!! calimary Feb 2013 #169
Wild Child!! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #32
Remember Mothers? And how Paseo used to be? n/t jtuck004 Feb 2013 #95
Paseo OKNancy Feb 2013 #98
From an old white man,,,, Oldfolkie Feb 2013 #17
Me, too! ChazInAz Feb 2013 #21
Hey Chaz, welcome to DU! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #33
+1000 regnaD kciN Feb 2013 #38
Good on you and thank you for help leading the way. n/t countmyvote4real Feb 2013 #83
... SammyWinstonJack Feb 2013 #121
yes, some young people RILib Feb 2013 #157
I'm gonna be 60 this year and the same is true - I'm more progressive now than ever before. calimary Feb 2013 #171
To me and their other contemporaries they still are pretty little hippy chicks Dragonfli Feb 2013 #18
Aw, thanks! Lifelong Protester Feb 2013 #19
God Bless us all... lib2DaBone Feb 2013 #20
I sure hope i'm fighting right up to the end :0) DonRedwood Feb 2013 #36
I may have been there with you... namaste2 Feb 2013 #44
Welcome to the DU! happynewyear Feb 2013 #79
Thanks for the welcome happynewyear~ namaste2 Feb 2013 #110
Namaste, namaste2 DonRedwood Feb 2013 #126
Thanks for the welcome~ namaste2 Feb 2013 #177
"Remember when Joints were something you enjoyed"?!!! Spewing coffee! TexasProgresive Feb 2013 #90
This made me weep a little..... a kennedy Feb 2013 #108
I'll admit I wept a little when I wrote it DonRedwood Feb 2013 #127
Ah, yes! The Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland. A Must See, not only for Old maddiemom Feb 2013 #112
"Remember when Joints were something you enjoyed" ROFLMAO!!!!!!!! calimary Feb 2013 #164
I was a hippie chick in the '70s, RebelOne Feb 2013 #22
And we STILL aren't the "Lawrence Welk" generation! (Did you hear that Led Zeppelin will tour?) WinkyDink Feb 2013 #23
watching lawrence welk on pbs is like taking a hit of acid DonRedwood Feb 2013 #50
Then you will love this ! Morning Dew Feb 2013 #73
That is....surreal. truebluegreen Feb 2013 #93
Welk got surreal for real! stlsaxman Feb 2013 #102
Holy shit! Holy shit! They had no idea what it meant? OMG, that's just...beyond comprehension! I Nay Feb 2013 #136
Kinda like when the teabaggers came out calling themselves teabaggers. valerief Feb 2013 #99
HOLY COW DonRedwood Feb 2013 #129
ROFLMAO! They clearly had no clue WTF they were singing about! Tracked this down.... tpsbmam Feb 2013 #174
I admit to enjoying it tremendously! Like time traveling! Divernan Feb 2013 #116
i watch it once or twice a month... DonRedwood Feb 2013 #130
I assume most of his musicians were baked DBoon Feb 2013 #190
My best laugh was when my nine yr. old grandson tavernier Feb 2013 #25
"Wiglet" is a term I haven't heard in many years... CBHagman Feb 2013 #26
I am being 100% truthful when I say it is one of the funniest words I know of DonRedwood Feb 2013 #39
Yeah, and some of the hippie guys are feelin' a little older now too, Baby Blue NBachers Feb 2013 #28
That song of Cash with Dylan has always given me truedelphi Feb 2013 #149
My dad, born in 1913, was one of the original '50's jazz freak sound system mainacs NBachers Feb 2013 #188
What a great thing to have going on in one's childhood home. truedelphi Feb 2013 #200
I had a great encounter with one of my "hippie chik" contemporaries..... socialist_n_TN Feb 2013 #30
Checking in. femmocrat Feb 2013 #34
This hippie chick is fine Le Taz Hot Feb 2013 #35
+ 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!! - K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2013 #40
Too young to be a hippie... Rozlee Feb 2013 #41
My sr picture has parted in the middle feathered hair and photogray glasses DonRedwood Feb 2013 #53
Ditto. TDale313 Feb 2013 #68
I'm too young too. DevonRex Feb 2013 #180
Thanks for looking beyond our old bodies Curmudgeoness Feb 2013 #45
they are so hard working i forget their age DonRedwood Feb 2013 #209
Yes we are libodem Feb 2013 #46
You mean like Grace Slick? Jefferson Airplane? Ask Alice? That Hippie Chick? Leslie Valley Feb 2013 #47
Ahh, the Voice that Launched a Thousand Trips! calimary Feb 2013 #60
Remember Melanie: Lay Down-Candles In The Rain, from Woodstock? DevonRex Feb 2013 #179
That was an excellent rendition of her song... MrMickeysMom Feb 2013 #193
It was DevonRex Feb 2013 #194
I liked that story, too. I was a guitar player.... MrMickeysMom Feb 2013 #198
Oh, yeah. SheilaT Feb 2013 #48
20 years ago, the last of the hippie chicks taught me the most valuable lessons of my life Nevernose Feb 2013 #51
Yes...and I'm a grandpa. Liberal In Texas Feb 2013 #56
Hippie chick ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #57
I LOVED bell bottoms because they counter-balanced a big butt. calimary Feb 2013 #62
I just liked them ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #65
Well, you could certainly have some of mine! I still have more than enough down below. calimary Feb 2013 #159
Thanks! ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #160
I was the first guy to wear a pink izod to my high school... DonRedwood Feb 2013 #70
LOL - it could be worse. ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #131
My girlfriend and I were the first to wear backless long dresses (that we sewed ourselves) Nay Feb 2013 #137
I know what you mean. ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #144
I was never a traffic stopper except RILib Feb 2013 #158
Nuff said OldHippieChick Feb 2013 #58
Ahhh, memories Hekate Feb 2013 #59
Thank you from this grandma. 840high Feb 2013 #61
Little Hippie Chicks generally don't have Tramp Stamps slackmaster Feb 2013 #63
I was a hippie chick, too. murielm99 Feb 2013 #67
No offense, but it sounds like your friends were wannabe hippies. Zorra Feb 2013 #69
Amen sister! dooner Feb 2013 #72
I didn't wear any of those things either Le Taz Hot Feb 2013 #88
What you said. tilsammans Feb 2013 #120
Embroidered, mirrored Indian cotton tunic over torn bellbottoms frazzled Feb 2013 #138
I am very grateful to all the "hippie chicks". Beacool Feb 2013 #71
Yep, I'm now with my second hippie chick GliderGuider Feb 2013 #74
Thank you for sharing your beautiful story DonRedwood Feb 2013 #132
Y'all are breaking my heart, in a good way. cliffordu Feb 2013 #75
DAMN, I missed that! pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #78
Also, a current friend was a member of Danny & the Juniors ("At the Hop") pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #80
Blimey dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #97
After serving in Vietnam, Bill later married a Vietnamese woman whom he met on a visit there pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #122
Hippie Chicks forever! Are_grits_groceries Feb 2013 #76
. struggle4progress Feb 2013 #77
THAT's the Joan I remember! Met her, and her lovely sisters, in '65 in Carmel FailureToCommunicate Feb 2013 #146
Knr from a Granny Hippie Chick. pecwae Feb 2013 #85
A close mental association I have with hippie girls is the girl from The Party anAustralianobserver Feb 2013 #91
One of my all-time favorite movies. Le Taz Hot Feb 2013 #109
NUM-NUM anAustralianobserver Feb 2013 #173
I know one that's a great grandma now. And she's still pretty. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #92
K&R TexasProgresive Feb 2013 #94
You should check out Yellow Springs OH sometime. dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #96
What a place! pecwae Feb 2013 #119
Beautiful!!! I loved the 60's (and the 70's). n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #101
My mom had a wiglet! we can do it Feb 2013 #103
Nice piece of writing, MadHound Feb 2013 #104
H.S. Class of '66 here! Greybnk48 Feb 2013 #105
Good ol days marlakay Feb 2013 #106
Before my time, but an interesting read. smirkymonkey Feb 2013 #113
I haven't changed much LWolf Feb 2013 #115
I think I'm one, too. H2O Man Feb 2013 #117
GASP! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #134
I was also a pretty little hippie chick. tblue37 Feb 2013 #128
I didn't know that Hippies had baby birds! n/t RoccoR5955 Feb 2013 #133
I loved those years Blue4Texas Feb 2013 #135
And yes, they did change the world. alfredo Feb 2013 #139
Here's a Pretty Little Hippie Chick Who's Now a Grandmother On the Road Feb 2013 #141
I loved my mini-skirts rhiannon55 Feb 2013 #143
Not all the hippie chicks made it as far as San Francisco. DonRedwood Feb 2013 #150
Hey, I never made it to San Francisco either, and I live in L.A.! calimary Feb 2013 #161
Love your post. llmart Feb 2013 #214
I think the first time I heard the term "hippie chicks" MineralMan Feb 2013 #147
Mod Years (1964/67) versus Hippie Years (1968+) HockeyMom Feb 2013 #148
Did both. calimary Feb 2013 #163
Very good summary HockeyMom Feb 2013 #175
Graduated in 1967.. We made the newspaper.. SoCalDem Feb 2013 #195
I was more of a hippie chick wannabe.... llmart Feb 2013 #208
Your singing my song Don. Those were the days and they go by way to quickly. sigh...... Little Star Feb 2013 #151
This hippie chick thinks you're far out! nolabear Feb 2013 #152
Well, you already know I think you're far out too! DonRedwood Feb 2013 #154
Another old hippie chick, checking in. love_katz Feb 2013 #156
This post and thread have been the ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #165
Thoroughly agree, ohheckyeah! calimary Feb 2013 #176
Wish I could recommend it twice. ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #184
It has been a most enjoyable conversation. I'm gald so many people joined in. DonRedwood Feb 2013 #189
My bellbottoms & fav peasant blouses came from Different Drummer in NYC.... tpsbmam Feb 2013 #178
These days the "Hippie Chick" is a costume to be slutty in.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #185
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Feb 2013 #206
Actually, there was another group back then that were the anti-hippie chicks... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #207
what were the Hippie GUys like ? JI7 Feb 2013 #186
Very long hair, HockeyMom Feb 2013 #197
I'm sharing this thread with my mom. Lone_Star_Dem Feb 2013 #191
What a delightful post & thread! And it brings back memories! CrispyQ Feb 2013 #202
K & R a great thread. pengillian101 Feb 2013 #204
Here's something interesting I found today: ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #210
Makes perfect sense. calimary Feb 2013 #211
I was amazed that 70% ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #213
I look at pictures of my grandmother when she was 40 and she looks older than my mom DonRedwood Feb 2013 #215
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