John_Stone Report This Comment Date: February 10, 2006 05:52PM
When the Yippies tried to plant a Vietcong flag on the Matterhorn.
"A park spokesman announced yesterday that rigorous grooming standards
would be required for admission."
heh
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 03:29AM
Another crazy time in America I can remember.
TV as a kid in the 60s was a strange place filled continually with social unrest
and rioting. 'Course little seemed all that strange after seein a president
shot on live TV. Helluvan impact on a 7yr old.
We were hearded into the school auditorium to see the president riding through
our home town only to see him killed.
Then a few days later sittin in front of the tube, everyone else still in bed
and "Here comes Lee Harvey Oswald, he's coming out of the Dallas County
Courthouse building now ..." Boom ! Again live death on the tube twice in
only a few days. Some things you just never forget ...
gruff Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 03:53AM
Thanks old man.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 04:59AM
mrkim: we are about the same age and from dallas? cool!
gruff: you're only old if you think you are. how old are you?
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 05:39AM
Yeah FD, born and raised, 3rd gen no less. My great grandmother came here in a
covered wagon:>
Be 50 this summer gruff. Age is much more a state of mind than a matter of the
years that have passed. BTW, I look more like 35, which is a matter of
fortunate genetics, since most people my age look like pure shit.
Dudn hurt to have a 26yo hot wife either. 49 goes into 26 waaaay better than
mathmatics can seem to explain ;>
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 05:44AM
my family has been in the dallas area for 125 or so yrs.
lived all over the world till i was 14 or 15 then back to big D
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 05:45AM
i see you're new to the site, i think you will enjoy it man
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 05:57AM
Been hangin around here for months, just decided to actually post somethin. So
you still in Big D ? I've abandoned the city for the stix. Live in Lone Oak
about an hour east these days.
Poppin pesky armadillos in the yard's a blast, but not nearly as good as gettin
a quicky on the hood of the car before headin off for the days labors. I LOVE
the privacy here :>
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 02:45PM
still in dallas, yes. i love dallas but long for the mtns.
i am a ski whore from way back
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 04:13PM
ALL THOSE DAMN YIPPIES ARE NOW STUPID LIBERAL DEMOCRAPS.FIRST THEY TRY TO SCREW
UP DISNEYLAND, NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO SCREW UP AMERICA..
LET'S KILL 'EM ALL !!!
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 05:41PM
The more accepted term in those days was Hippies. And some of us even became
republicans. Cut my hair, shined my shoesand made my way underground.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 07:25PM
'Live death' on tv? Isn't that oxymoronic?...or just moronic?
Duane Report This Comment Date: February 11, 2006 09:53PM
Welcome Mr.Kim fossils right youll have a blast here especially with a sense of
humor.Your gonna need it.lol
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: February 12, 2006 04:41AM
=The more accepted term in those days was Hippies=
The Yippies were the Youth International Party, an actual group, and not generic
'hippies'. The YIP was started by Abbie Hoffman and some others. One of whom
became a stock broker. Abbie, as you may recall, died of a cocaine OD about 8
years ago (or so).
I love the caption: *GUARD FANTASYLAND FROM YIPPIES* ... priceless. They
probably considered the whole action 100% successful with that title alone, even
if they didn't get the flag posted.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: February 12, 2006 03:02PM
Anonymous@312 I semi agree with your assertion though honestly, in the context
it was used, I stand on the correctness of my statement.
Good to hear from ya Duane. The ole sense of humor is still fairly intact. The
only things that typically burn my ass are a fire about 2 feet high that's been
kindled into existance by pure stupidity :>P Stupid people have a great way
of muddying up and slowing things down in my perspective.
John_Stone, thanks for the added historical mentions and I appreciate the view
point, but ... I've met and known a TON of hippies while I've yet to have ever
known a real Yippie, hence my own stated perspective ; >
I myself grew tired of the hassling over my own longhaired approach to the world
and in about '76 cut my hair short and slipped quietly underground.
The caption is indeed riotous however and what drew me initially to the pic
:>
