Are you now, or have you ever been a LONG HAIRED HIPPIE FREAK?

[MrScorpio]

Poll question: Are you now, or have you ever been a LONG HAIRED HIPPIE FREAK?

If so, post pictures

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Yup, but no pix. Sorry.

[MrScorpio]

6. Oh, Yeah. I knew you'd reply in the affirmative, EP

The DEAD Bear is a DEAD giveaway

[flvegan]

2. Ahhh...memories

No digital pix, sorry, but I had hair down to my waist. Dyed it maroon, too. College and bad influence from Mike Patton (Faith No More)...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I never espoused the hippie lifestyle

of drugs, free sex, etc, but I have always been in sync with those hippies who drifted into mysticism. My husband is still wearing lovely long hair.

[Catch22Dem]

4. I'm cool with everything but the hair

I like it on other people, but I just CAN'T do it. I end up cutting it every time. I've tried, and I just get frustrated with it. I think the thing that sticks with me the most after 8 years in the military is this overwhelming NEED to keep my hair short. Maybe one day I'll commit and grow it.

[indigobusiness]

25. It was important to let your freak flag fly...back then

but not now. Peace and love is sufficient, these days.

[htuttle]

5. I've been called 'an overfed, long-haired leaping gnome' by some

No pictures, but it would just look like a big cloud of brown hair anyway.

My last haircut was in 1990.

I trimmed my beard about 1/2 inch for a friends wedding in 2000, IIRC. The last time before that...not sure. I don't remember. It's slightly shorter than my ponytail.

[MrScorpio]

8. Spill the wine, HT

I bet you like WAR too?

[htuttle]

10. Yeah, but I've broadened my horizons quite a bit

Culturally/musically, I'm up for about anything. but not a big fan of country music, and heavy metal now gives me a headache (used to like it when I was younger, though).

War is actually one of the few groups of the 60's and 70's that never got stale for me.

[MrScorpio]

31. I saw them live back in 1983

They gave a free concert at Keesler AFB, Miss

Needless to say, a good time was had by all

[Mojambo]

7. Never in my life has my hair gotten to my shoulders.

Not even close.

It's just too much of a pain in the ass to deal with.

[indigobusiness]

9. Don't let ZombyWoof see this.

Oh, the humanity!

[ET Awful]

11. Indeed I have been, now I'm a medium length haired hippie freak :)

With a dangerously expensive taste in audio, video and computer equipment. This means that despite my hippiehood, I am unable to completely eschew commercialism and capitalism :) :) :)

[Bonhomme Richard]

12. In my Hippie days................

[MrScorpio]

13. Yep, you were a hippie alright

You were down with the hippiness, big time

[kcwayne]

14. Can you dig it, man? When I was groovin with the moon in

the 7th house, and Jupiter aligned with Mars man, my freak flag was flying. It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, and I threw up the peace sign, and it did me no harm. Sly was my man, and he took me higher!

Then I graduated from college, got a job, and got square.

Sorry, no pre-square pictures, my mother has one of me in that era stuffed away somewhere, which she shows people and says this is my boy during his communist days!


Edit: For those of you too young to remember, Sly is not the Rambo numbnut, its Sly of Sly and the Family Stone, check them out on the Woodstock DVD, and show us the peace sign, it will do you no harm!

[teach1st]

15. Here's me in the day...

..Hawaii

[MrScorpio]

17. ...And a Hippie-Mobile to boot

Those look like nice times

[teach1st]

19. The best!

The old Valiant wouldn't die, but the push button transmission kind of rotted away until there was only reverse.

[indigobusiness]

23. I was just going to say I bet it still runs

if it was a slant 6.

[Cats Against Frist]

45. niiiiiiicccceeeee

Thanks.

[Baja Margie]

57. Heh.......

Was that the Banana Patch in Maui ????????????

[Bunny]

16. No, but I've been a friend of those long-haired hippie type pinko fags.

I've even got a Commie flag, tacked up on the wall inside of my garage.

With props to Charlie Daniels, back when he was still cool.

[starroute]

18. I only knew one person in the 60's who would admit to being a hippie

I had a friend who lived in a 6th floor walkup in the East Village and made plastic flowers to sell on streetcorners to the tourists. But she wasn't a hippie -- just slumming.

I knew someone who lived in a communal apartment in the same area. But he was a writer, not a hippie.

I knew people who were stoned for years and tripping every weekend, but they wouldn't admit to being hippies either.

And then there were the leftover beatniks who looked down on the whole hippie thing as teenybopper nonsense.

Maybe things were different out on the West Coast, but where I came from if you claimed to be a hippie it was a sure sign you weren't really serious.

[China_cat]

63. Actually, the 'real' hippies

Called themselves 'freaks'.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. I have hippy tendencies, but I would never pass the test

[zbdent]

21. No, but you might remember one really red neck

who wrote "Uneasy Rider" . . .

[IconoclastIlene]

22. I've always been long haired freaky people!!!

[DrZeeLit]

24. Any pictures have been burned...

...to protect the innocent (and maybe just a tad, teeny, tiny of the few, the proud, the brave... OKAY-- the very guilty).

Named my son after Chaucer; got on with my life. Who knew?

[Guy Fawkes]

26. over four years and now I have to cut my hair short on the 30th

:(

[grannylib]

27. Don't have any digital versions of me in the hippie days, but picture

corkscrewy long blonde hair (natural, naturally!) 'bout 5'5", 130, Mexican poncho (NOT a Sears poncho), Levi's, thrift store footwear of the type appropriate to the weather, and quite a bit of silver/turquoise/agate/shell jewelry. Looked like everyone else who was being an individual *lol*
Mid-to-late 70s era teen hippie, not much has changed except the hair has some grey, I've gained 5 pounds, and anything I may once have had to flaunt has LONG since packed up and slid south.

[dancing kali]

28. Peace, man.

Sorry, no digital pictures. Had hair to my hips for 20+ years - got tired of looking like a refugee from the 60's and cut it off 3 years ago.

[JimmyJazz]

29. No - I'm a bit too young, but this guy was a total hippie:

You'll have to check the properties, I'm not telling who it is!

[MrScorpio]

32. Sharif don't like it. Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

Do I get a prize?

[JimmyJazz]

33. Did you peak or did you recognize? Be honest.

and if you didn't peak, then you get a prize.

On edit; although, I shouldn't give you one after mentioning the WORST song ever recorded by the Clash. Okay, okay there are a few other stinkers, but this one is really right up there!

[MrScorpio]

37. That song is really special to me

One: I liked it.

Two: They shot it in Austin Tx, near Bergstorm AFB, where I was first stationed.

And yeah, I'm a cheater

So bite me :evilgrin:

[JimmyJazz]

61. Actually, I don't think it's that bad- it's just not one of my favorites.

It was a bit overplayed, especially on MTV in the early days.
Oh and even though you cheated, I will still give you a prize: a trip to a day spa starting with a mud bath:

[SarahB]

30. Probably not

I am an open-minded Earth Mother (or earthy mommy), geeky goddess, and around hot babe, but I am not into either drugs or casual sex (rock and rolls great though). Every time I have even dipped my toes into those realms or have it enter my thought processes, it doesn't work for me. My hair's kind of long though, I'm somewhat a socialist, and I own a few tie-dyed shirts. :D

[ldf]

34. proud hippie, still.

although now i dress in a suit for work, and totally play the part.

but ONLY because my hair thinned out so much it didn't look good, or i would STILL have it, while wearing a suit, playing the part.

had really long hair all my adult life, started growing it as soon as i graduated from high school.

it would get almost to my waist, and for one stupid reason or another (like getting a job) i would cut it. then start immediately growing it back again. i did that four times. took about four years each time because i would always trim it and keep it healthy. each time it was a little thinner

finally, in 1996, i decided if i couldn't do it right, then i wouldn't do it at all. now it's about 1/4 inch, all over. very easy to take care of, and i cut it myself with clippers. cheap.

and i have a van dyke.

so, i'm still a hippie at heart, but also an urban professional, in nyc. and i am STILL wearing my tiny diamond earing (pierced in 1972). ain't gonna give that up. it goes very well with a nice suit. :-)

but, long hair was a statement (at least it was when i started it). and it pretty much, and still does, indicates my overall attitude and philosophy.

make love, not war. unless you absolutely have to, then kick ass. :-)

[UTUSN]

35. That's the Longest Choice List Ever, But (that said), Well-DUH

And that THAT said, where've you been Mr Scorpio------the bar's been dry for a long time.

[MrScorpio]

36. I've been out spending my weekend evenings with MrsScorpio

On Friday, we spent time together and I took her to a Thai restaurant on Sat.

The bar comes second to my baby.

[peacebuzzard]

38. Who, me?

need I say more?:hippie: sorry, no pics at the moment.

[CO Liberal]

39. Yes, I Was

Here I am at my Senior Prom in 1971, with my date Lorna:

[MrScorpio]

42. Whoa, you had this Robert Plant thingy going on

Can you sing HEARTBREAKER?

[the Princess]

67. Pssssssst - Mr Scorpio

First ask him if he knows who Robert Plant is. LOL

He likes music from the 50's! *UGH* I'm the 60's music freak - and wasn't born till 1960 - so I missed the *HIPPIE* thing - but I woulda been one. LOL

[CO Liberal]

69. Of COURSE I Know

Robert Plant runs a nursery - right????

:-)

Actually, it's even worse - every once in a while I get on a Big Band kick - Glenn Miller, The Dorsey Brothers, Artie Shaw - all the songs that I hated as a kid.

[HEyHEY]

40. FUCK. NO.

[Mr. McD]

41. Once upon a time.

[seraph]

43. Oh yes

My passport picture, when I was touring.


Very long hair.

[Seabiscuit]

44. At 50 y.o. I practically started the "hippie" movement.

High School Grad: '63.

[Seabiscuit]

46. Oops! Make that 59, not 50.

[Cats Against Frist]

47. If by hippie you mean that I wear the same dress everyday,

my teeth are sort of rotting, and my hair dreadlocks between washings, well, yes, then I'm a hippie.

However, I wear glitter lip gloss and Dior's Hypnotic Poison perfume. Not very hippie.

But I do wear combat boots and I don't shave my legs. Hippie.

But I also drive a Chevy Lumina and have designer eyeglasses. Not hippie.

But I used to own a multi-colored Peugeot. Totally Hippie.

So I'm in love with Vince Vaughn. Not hippie.

But say I have a full-time "job" as a poet. Hippie.

Actually, I'm more like white trash, I think. My boyfriend got drunk and crashed my car, last weekend. I haven't clipped my toenails for like at least a month. I smoke, and when I'm done smoking, I put the cigarette butts in my purse. There's like a 1-inch layer of loose tobacco in the bottom of my hand-made wool purse.

White trash, definitely. Hippie -- a little, but pseudo-hippie.

[Seabiscuit]

49. Sorta perhaps maybe wannabe hippie. White Trash? Absolutely!

[Cats Against Frist]

51. I've accepted it

:)

[Gemini Cat]

48. No. Never.

Before my time.
I'm not sure what a hippie really was or is. :shrug:

[Seabiscuit]

50. Don't bogart that joint, my friend...

[proud2BlibKansan]

53. Pass it over to me

Great song!

[Seabiscuit]

54. Passing proud2Blib

a "fattie"...:smoke:

[Seabiscuit]

62. Long ago it must be...

Time it was and what a time it was it was,
A time of innocence a time of confidences.

[bloodyjack]

52. waay before my time

plus emigre parents and conservative upbringing = guilt^999999

not like I didnt exhibit any manifestations of teenage rebellion or subversiveness or any of that, mind you (I took up smoking) I just didnt grow my hair long or bring myself to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh, sadly.

[woofless]

55. I got out of the Air Force in '73

and did not cut my hair for nearly ten years. It got down to my ass.

[Baja Margie]

56. Yea, for sure,

my husband had hair down to his butt and a really long beard, he looked like one of the Smith Brothers. Now he's DHS.


I still have and drive my 1968 VW Van.

Remember this guy ??????????


(Ken Kesey)

What a trip.....

[puerco-bellies]

58. Where's my Poco Harem 45's man?

Check DU pics for a look at my freak flag. Peace

[the Princess]

68. Um wasn't that Procol Harem???????

[Tabasco_Dave]

59. Born to late to be a hippie but

i lost my virginity to one. Back in 1985 I had just turned 18 and one of my mom's hippie friends called me over to give me a birthday present and she sure did.

[LastKnight]

60. hells ya! no pics though nt

[dr.strangelove]

64. Do Modern Hippies count?

I led the hippie freak lifestyle in college in teh early 90s. I did the long hair, followed the dead for a summer, the sex, the drugs, the rock and roll. I did the protests, the live and let live, the outrage at moral outrage, the peace of it all and even had a brief dread phase. Then I went to law school, cut my hair and started workign for the man.

[MrScorpio]

71. A hippie is a hippie, is a hippie...

Despite the squareness of your current gig, you know deep down that you've still got the hippiness groove going on.

Don't deny your inner Hippie. Embrace it and it will love you for it.

Peace, Man

[Bundbuster]

65. Yep - those were the days

Amazing I'm still alive and semi-functional (pic circa 1970)

[no name no slogan]

66. Yup, let me find the photo...

I was from 1999 to Valentines Day of this year. I got it cut off for my wife's birthday, and also because I was newly unemployed. Where did I put them pics...

[Blue Gardener]

70. Hippie Chick costume for Halloween this year

With REALLY long hair!