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in reply to a message by Nanaea
Ahem, but the word is "hippie". "Hippy" means you'll probably have an easy time bearing children, if you can somehow attract a guy in the first place...
I spent the Peace n' Love years as a college student, mostly in the Midwest and a bit around around NYC, but not on the Left Coast. They weren't too much on FlowerFag names in those parts. Altho I did know two girls who dubbed themselves Rainbow and Sunshine and a guy named Toker (they didn't know EACH OTHER, thank Gawd), most of the hippie folks in our neck of the woods were called things like Tom and Steve and Maddie (for Madelyn ).
Oh, and to set the record straight in defense of the attempted Greening of America: never did I hear anyone use the word "groovy" except as total loathing sarcasm.
My own theory to explain those years was that young people were made delirious not by Colombian or Panama Red or even hash, but by the aerosol Right Guard fumes that blanketed the planet throughout the decade. Ozone layer? We doan need no steenking ozone layer...
Right on, dude.
I spent the Peace n' Love years as a college student, mostly in the Midwest and a bit around around NYC, but not on the Left Coast. They weren't too much on FlowerFag names in those parts. Altho I did know two girls who dubbed themselves Rainbow and Sunshine and a guy named Toker (they didn't know EACH OTHER, thank Gawd), most of the hippie folks in our neck of the woods were called things like Tom and Steve and Maddie (for Madelyn ).
Oh, and to set the record straight in defense of the attempted Greening of America: never did I hear anyone use the word "groovy" except as total loathing sarcasm.
My own theory to explain those years was that young people were made delirious not by Colombian or Panama Red or even hash, but by the aerosol Right Guard fumes that blanketed the planet throughout the decade. Ozone layer? We doan need no steenking ozone layer...
Right on, dude.
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Aha! You have shed light on the true meaning of the song "do the hippy-hippy shake"
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I have done as much research as I can on this name, and was wondering, does it mean "star", "shining star" or "morning star"?
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"Ahem, but the word is "hippie". "Hippy" means you'll probably have an easy time bearing children, if you can somehow attract a guy in the first place..."
******Henceforth, I shall use the term "hippie" instead of "hippy" (no WAY do I want anyone callin' me "hippy"!!)
"I spent the Peace n' Love years as a college student, mostly in the Midwest and a bit around around NYC,"
******You hung out in NYC, Daividh ? Where'bouts? Maybe we might've run into each other sometime. :)
"...most of the hippie folks in our neck of the woods were called things like Tom and Steve and Maddie (for Madelyn )."
******Have to admit that I never knew any real people with funny hippie names, either. They must've all been living in California, or something. You could get KILLED in New York with a name like "Sunshine ".
"Oh, and to set the record straight in defense of the attempted Greening of America: never did I hear anyone use the word "groovy" except as total loathing sarcasm."
******The word "groovy" always struck me as a kinda phony-sounding, freakin' *embarrassing* expression, too. You could get killed in New York saying things like "groovy", too.
-- Nanaea
******Henceforth, I shall use the term "hippie" instead of "hippy" (no WAY do I want anyone callin' me "hippy"!!)
"I spent the Peace n' Love years as a college student, mostly in the Midwest and a bit around around NYC,"
******You hung out in NYC, Daividh ? Where'bouts? Maybe we might've run into each other sometime. :)
"...most of the hippie folks in our neck of the woods were called things like Tom and Steve and Maddie (for Madelyn )."
******Have to admit that I never knew any real people with funny hippie names, either. They must've all been living in California, or something. You could get KILLED in New York with a name like "Sunshine ".
"Oh, and to set the record straight in defense of the attempted Greening of America: never did I hear anyone use the word "groovy" except as total loathing sarcasm."
******The word "groovy" always struck me as a kinda phony-sounding, freakin' *embarrassing* expression, too. You could get killed in New York saying things like "groovy", too.
-- Nanaea
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....You could get killed in New York saying things like "groovy", too...
When all the world was singing about love-ins and chocolate watchbands, my favorite New Yorkers -- the Velvet Underground -- were singin' about venus in furs and shiny shiny boots of leather heheh.
When all the world was singing about love-ins and chocolate watchbands, my favorite New Yorkers -- the Velvet Underground -- were singin' about venus in furs and shiny shiny boots of leather heheh.
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We needed groups like the Velvet Underground to balance out songs like Simon & Garfunkle's "Feelin' Groovy" song -- which, by the way, was subtitled "The 59th Street Bridge Song".
The 59th Street Bridge is the only means of driving from Queens to Manhattan for free. If you take the Midtown Tunnel, you have to pay a toll.
So I guess the free access is *some* reason for "feelin' groovy". But I'll take the (fake) furs and shiny boots instead of all da "grooviness". :)
Oh, and I have one exception regarding the use of "groovy". Alexander Scott and Kelly Robinson use that expression an awful lot in the old *I Spy* teevee series, and they're cool, regardless. :)
-- Nanaea
The 59th Street Bridge is the only means of driving from Queens to Manhattan for free. If you take the Midtown Tunnel, you have to pay a toll.
So I guess the free access is *some* reason for "feelin' groovy". But I'll take the (fake) furs and shiny boots instead of all da "grooviness". :)
Oh, and I have one exception regarding the use of "groovy". Alexander Scott and Kelly Robinson use that expression an awful lot in the old *I Spy* teevee series, and they're cool, regardless. :)
-- Nanaea
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An unhip etymology?
More than a decade ago I sent a letter of enquiry to Cecil Adams of "The Straight Dope" concerning a possible anti-semitic etymology of words such as hip-hip hurray, hippy, etc. Check it out at http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_241b.html
More than a decade ago I sent a letter of enquiry to Cecil Adams of "The Straight Dope" concerning a possible anti-semitic etymology of words such as hip-hip hurray, hippy, etc. Check it out at http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_241b.html
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