Old Hippies Group?

I was considering starting an Old Hippies group (for OLD hippies only!).

What do ya think?

 

I think 50 or so would probably be the cutoff , no? So ppl born in 1957 or earlier would qualify as an old hippie.

 

See http://hippy.com

 

Uh, that dude doesn't know what he's talking about. Did he write a book like this on the subject?
http://www.hipplanet.com/books/atoz/atoz.htm

Hippy has been an acceptable way of spelling it since at least 1966. Do your research, don't accept BS like that (one paragraph, no citations). Sorry you can't rewrite history (not as long as I'm alive!)

And yes, if you can come up with another name and IDEA for a group, it might be acceptable.

BTW, MOST of the groups already formed on this site ARE hippy groups. There's no need for redundancy.

Finally this thread is about an OLD Hippies group. You are all OFF-TOPIC here.

 

Tuatara is correct. Sorry but neither Webster, nor the Professor invented the word, so they are in NO position to tell others how to spell it.

In fact, as Tuatara and I pointed out BOTH spellings have been in existence as long as the word.

If you want MORE info on this subject I can provide it, but it's PRETTY boring and pointless to argue over a word.

Words are spelled in dictionaries (which both you and the professor choose to ignore), the way they are spelled in common use. I could show you dozens of examples from the 1960s of the word HIPPY being used.

Therefore there IS no right or wrong way to spell a word. Dictionaries spell them accordingly AFTER their use is noted in society.

In fact in Great Britain, which is no stranger to the HIPPY movement, the preferred spelling is indeed hippy. Go tell the British they don't know how to spell English words, and see the response you get...

Now that you've continued to take us off-topic, perhaps we can get back on it.

BTW, here's a quick image of one really strange use of the word, in a candy product for children from the 1960s!!!

 

No that wasn't a group, but a forum. There is a difference.

Here's more hippy images as I find them...

This one is from a 1974 Pakistani movie soundtrack...

 

Guess you've never heard of the Hippy Gourmet TV show either...

http://hippygourmet.blip.tv/

Shows it's still being spelled Hippy in modern usage.

Here's a British poet reciting his poem, The Hippy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/ondemand/cornwall/videonation/cornwall_hippy?

Here's another contemporary Brit with a comic called Hippy Steve