You know you're an aging hippie when...

The Merry Pranksters...... How Ken Kesey's LSD-fuelled bus trip created the psychedelic 60s

 

You suddenly come off that long strange trip (whether fueled by a never ending supply of acid, or suddenly reapperaing from somewhere deep off the grid, or reappearing from deep in Bangladesh or Katmandu, or any combination of such a long strange trip) only to discover that a reality show TV actor is now president (and whatever a reality show was it obviously did not reflect true reality), and suddenly McCarthy seems relatively benign in how he was able to screw things up, and even if we thought it was bad in the 60's, now the whole world is under attack on many fronts (militarily, environmentally, diplomatically, constitutionally, etc.)---by, of all Nations, the US, and its collapse into indiocy.

Yes, most of us can't experience this cultural shock directly-----but imagine the shock!!

 

Boy how Eric Clapton played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Freaks like us we had it made!
Those were the days!

We fought the establishment,
Protested the government.
Mister we could use a man
Like Lyndon Johnson again.

Grew my hair out long and straight.
Hitchhiked on the interstate.
Gee our Microbus ran great,
Those were the days!

 

I thought about an alternative line here---

...Mister we could use a man
Like Timothy Leary again.

You can say good and bad things about him, but he sure shook up the establishment. Nixon even referred to him as "the most dangerous man in America." He ran for Governor of California against Reagan, and there was even talk of him running for President. His life was as crazy as the 60's he helped shape----the Weathermen even broke him out of a Federal Penitentiary...

 

Baby Boomers don't really want a man like Lyndon Johnson again, just as the WWII generation didn't really want a man like Herbert Hoover again. That's the weird thing about nostalgia, you reminisce about the "good old days" which really weren't all that good when you look at them more closely.

 

You know you're an aging hippie when...


Sorry... I don't recall.

 

when your clothes come back in style.....twice

 

at least

 

And you claim you don't give a fuck whether or not they're in style, and you might be lying.

 

Hahaha!

 

When classic rock stations are playing more and more bands that either you never heard of, or they were the bands your kids listened to.

 

You record Saturday Night Live on your DVR and fast forward through the musical guest because let's face it, today's music sucks.

 

Yep---I know how that is-----but I still watch the chicks----I just ignore the music.

 

You know you're an aging Hippy when you look at your CPAP machine and start thinking about a way to modify it with a connection to your Bong!

 

Just Read The Entire 18 Pages Of This Thread.....Some Very Funny Stuff In Here......But It's This Beautiful

Photo That Leaves A Lump In My Throat......Just Had To Bump It......



Cheers Glen.

 

i think this is enough said right here. only old folks watch SNL, since it had one good season back in the 70s and has just been riding that momentum since then.

 

This is my favourite one lol

 

Yeah, I remember wearing desert boots back in the '70s. Now they're in style again.

 

My new ( to me) desert boots are a dark pink colour! By the way, we wore desert boots because they were relatively cheap. Have you sent the Fucking price of them now?