[MD] Hippies

[ian glendinning]

Hi folks,

I watched the directors cut DVD of the Woodstock film last night.

The one thing that struck me was the attitude of the "conservative"
inhabitants of the towns around the site, when it became overwhelmed
by the numbers and declared a disaster area.

With exception of one, farmer who had his crop trampled and ruined in
an adjacent field, and one guy ranting on about the imorality of 15
year old girls sleeping in a field where people were smoking dope,
everyone of the dozen or so captured on film expressed (surprised)
pride at what fine considerate upstanding examples of American youth
the hippies turned out to be when they interacted with them to find
food and water and sanitation and telephones.

Makes you think
Ian

On 2/1/06, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Ant,
>
> I thought in support of your recent post, I'd include the opening
> transcript from the South Park episode, "Die Hippie, Die!".
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> [An elderly woman's home. Cartman rings her doorbell, and she answers it.
> Cartman is dressed in an orange hazmat suit and is carrying a tank of
> something on his back]
>
> Cartman: Hello, ma'am. I'm working to clean up the neighborhood from
> parasites. Do you mind if I take a quick look around your house? I'm afraid
> you may have hippies.
>
> Elderly Woman: Hippies?
>
> Cartman: [walks in and begins to rap the walls with his fist] Yeah, they've
> been poppin' up all over the neighborhood lately. Ms. Nelson next door had
> seven hippies in her basement; they usually live in colonies. [raps on the
> wall and the pitch changes] Hm, I don't like the sound of that. Could I
> take a look in your attic?
>
> [The attic. He opens the door and looks in. He gets out a flashlight, turns
> it on, and looks around again. He stops after a few seconds.]
>
> Cartman: Oh yeah, boy. Take a look at this, ma'am. [she climbs up until her
> eyes are level with his] See that? Hippies. [five hippies are sitting in a
> clearing in the attic, smoking and laughing.]
>
> Elderly Woman: Oh my.
>
> Cartman: These are what we call the uh giggling stoners. Pretty common form
> of hippie, usually found in the attics. Problem is, if you see one hippie,
> there's probably a whole lot more you're not seein'. Uh, whe-where's the
> backyard.
>
> [The backyard. The elderly lady opens the door and Cartman walks out onto
> the back porch]
>
> Cartman: Yep, that's what I thought. See that? You've got a drum circle in
> your backyard. [eight hippies are seen seated around a small campfire
> drumming away. Logs are scattered around them]
>
> Elderly Woman: Oh, well they showed up a few days ago, but I didn't think
> they were hurting anything.
>
> Cartman: Yeah. You know, I had a guy in Jackson county. He had a little
> drum circle in his backyard. It turned into a drum circle four miles in
> diameter. You get a few hippies playing drums and next thing you know, you
> got yourself a colony.
>
> Elderly Woman: Oh dear.
>
> [back inside the house]
>
> Elderly Woman: Oh, well, so, so what do I do?
>
> Cartman: [goes back to rapping the walls, then stops] Well, your attic
> could be so we can fumigate with polymerethane. The drum circle we're gonna
> have to gas. [raps again. The wall begins to crack and he steps aside. A
> hippie breaks through and falls to the floor. Cartman says under his
> breath] Goddamnit! [pulls out a fire extinguisher from his backpack]
>
> Hippie 1: [dazed and confused, coughing] Whoa, how did I get here? Man, I'm
> so high.
>
> Cartman: Goddamn hippie! [opens fire. Foam spews out from the extinguisher]
>
> Hippie 1: Whoa, dude!
>
> Cartman: Get out of here!
>
> Hippie 1: Not cool! [stands up and looks at Cartman] What's up?! [runs off]
>
> Cartman: Ma'am, I need to clear out your giggling stoners and your
> drum-circle hippies RIGHT NOW, or soon they're gonna attract something much
> worse!
>
> Elderly Woman: Ooooo.what's that?
>
> Cartman: The college know-it-all hippies.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Heheheheh.... this cracks me up almost as much as Monty Python's Cheese
> Shop sketch....
>
> Arlo
>
> Cartman: They're not people, they're HIPPIES!
>
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