Talk like a hippie ...

Hi, Snood.

Mmm, does anyone remember the years when cool was a cool word and then the years when it was rarely used.. and then the years when it came back into common usage? Maybe this just happened in California, but I remember those kind of transitions, just not the timing of them.

And gnarly.

As far as us Bostonians and many urban northeasterners around college-age and just beyond, California set the trends...at least as far as clothing/fashion, young people's slang, music...and speech patterns. That was how I recall that it was in '60s and '70s. UK did to a degree, as well.

I recall a recent hip lingo phrase, "that's sick". Took me aback a few times 'til i figured it out.

bitchin'...

friz

I was never a hippy, just looked like one, I was kool then and i'm kool now..
Me-

Waaaay radical, dudes and dudettes.

Here's a partial list:

Bogart: To hog a joint while others are waiting. Term refers to Humphrey Bogart, who usually had a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

Blow Your Mind: Surprise you in a mind expanding way by something unbelievable. "She really blew my mind with that head trip."

Bogart: To hog a joint while others are waiting. Term refers to Humphrey Bogart, who usually had a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

Cool it: Or Be Cool. Mellow Out. Calm down or stop what you're doing. "Hey can you cool it with the loud music, I'm trying to mellow out."

Crash: To stay in someone else's place. To come down off Acid or another intense drug.

Crash Pad: A place where hippies could hang out, do drugs, sleep, have sex, etc. without having to pay rent. They would come and go, with different people staying there every night.

Don't trust anyone over 30! - Popular saying on buttons in the 60s highlighting the generation gap.

Jonesing: When you want something real bad especially drugs.

Joneser: Someone who wants drugs real bad that he'll rip you off if he has to.

Mellow out!: Calm down! Equal to chill out!

Righteous: Something really great.

Yo Yo: A weekend hippie.

Yo yo??

Have to look, was this from buzzfeed? they asked their daddies?

Not that. I forgot to keep the site I got this from.

Here's some more...
A gas- fun, good time
Bitchin’ – good, great
Blitzed – drunk or some form of intoxicated
Blasted – Drunk or some form of intoxicated
Book – leave quickly
Bookin’ – moving quickly
Boss – really cool
Bread – money
Brewski – beer
Clean – nice looking (as in a clean ride)
Dig – understand
Drag – Dull; a puff from a cigarette or joint
Flake – uncool person
Later – goodbye
Lay it on me – tell me, speak your piece
Pig – policeman
Pig out – overeat
Rap – talk
Skag or skank – ugly girl
Split – leave the area
Solid – I got it; I’m with you; I agree
Square - uncool person
Toke – take a puff on a joint

Now that was great!

Drugs were the fly in the ointment of the hippy crowd.
I looked at the "alternative community" scene years ago with a view to joining one; the Rainbow Tribe in their 'Tipi Valley' looked good on paper, but when I visited their wigwams in Wales in a beautiful remote valley on a gorgeous summers day, they were all holed up inside high as kites.
What an insult to nature, as if they were saying "The world is not enough for us, we gotta have our drugs".
I got back on my bike after just 10 minutes..

I was on the fringe of hippie-ness, in those days. Didn't do drugs and too much of a loner to live like that. I was into anti war and civil rights.

No posers.

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