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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:47 PM Original message |
The truth is, nothing really happened at woodstock 40 years ago. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. lol, you're in your 30's? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Yeah! How old are you? |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. ha ha ha |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Whhhoo! Haahahaha! Ha. *sigh* a...ha. |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:34 PM Response to Reply #14 |
46. You're more right than you know. The people who were there, in their lucid moments, hated it. That |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:54 PM Response to Reply #46 |
58. no |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:11 AM Response to Reply #46 |
203. "That was the predominant reporting theme at the time" |
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SingaporeExpat (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
273. wow. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
266. My first thought, too - |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. Boy, sure am glad I'm not a GD mod anymore |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. it's more entertaining than insulting |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. After the blowup over the NASA probe crashing into the Moon... |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. Sour grapes. :) |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Of course! How could anyone NOT be jealous of going to woodstock in 1969!? |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. It'th dithpicable! |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Thuperthilious even! |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
27. Thoopercallafragalllithiouth exthpiealidothouthly blubberouth |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. You're acting like an ignorant fool. It's stupid to diss an event you know nothing about... |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:01 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. It's not a 'diss' is it? It is clarifying woodstock as a memory and not a historical event. |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. dude |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #23 |
114. someone hasn't been doing their homework... |
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billh58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:23 PM Response to Reply #114 |
127. The documentary film |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:11 AM Response to Reply #114 |
204. Well, if Rolling Stone says so, it must be true |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:43 AM Response to Reply #23 |
143. i think post 127 was for you |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:20 AM Response to Reply #23 |
172. Ah, but it was a historical event, and in many areas. |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
8. How sad. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Yes, but even more blasphemously, I don't give a shit about it. |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
32. If you don't give a shit about it, why spew your poison? |
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ElboRuum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:38 PM Response to Reply #32 |
50. Because we are now HELD BACK by the same things that once moved us forward. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #11 |
41. It was a media diversion from the war. Something for the media to romanticize. nt |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
67. the 70's and 80's were "good times"?? |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:54 PM Response to Reply #67 |
253. Do you often have trouble with irony? |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:23 AM Response to Reply #11 |
176. You left out Kent State. |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
212. I was a baby at the time but it was a watershed event whether you get it or not. |
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sudopod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
237. Which is why you posted a thread about it |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
267. Oh, but you do - you clearly do care about it - |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #267 |
274. "You don't know very much, but you're very angry, and that's an unfortunate combination. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:06 PM Response to Reply #274 |
280. Yes, I do - |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #280 |
284. How can I ever penetrate the veils of compliments that shroud the fang and venom? |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:18 PM Response to Reply #284 |
287. That's your anger - |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #287 |
291. Ok. Thanks! |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #267 |
276. I don't know. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:09 PM Response to Reply #276 |
282. Unless you're physically surrounded |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:51 PM Response to Reply #282 |
285. Ha! I'm not talking about right this MOMENT |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #285 |
288. Uh-huh - |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:26 PM Response to Reply #288 |
289. You're not even coherent. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:34 PM Response to Reply #289 |
290. Do I hear something? |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #290 |
314. Yuck, you're just an ugly person, aren't you? |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 08:46 PM Response to Reply #314 |
315. I am? |
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verges (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #289 |
292. And the 60s generation had to hear about |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
39. a couple years later |
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quiller4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
78. Thank you. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
105. Pity him, due to an accident of birth he has only the Raygun era for memories of his "better days". |
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coyotespaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:47 AM Response to Reply #105 |
154. Hey, I take exception to that... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:28 AM Response to Reply #154 |
200. LOL! i believe I can relate to that. |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:02 AM Response to Reply #8 |
138. Beautiful response. Perhaps a bit harsh on the "grasshopper" |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:14 AM Response to Reply #8 |
205. Wow, you were six at the time? |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
277. Yes, how sad for me that my parent's attempts at |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. Not exactly |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. But that DOES exist today. There are wonderful people attending beautiful festivals and having |
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kimmerspixelated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:38 PM Response to Reply #13 |
49. I think you already really know that it was magical |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #49 |
82. well, there were bigger crowds before and have been bigger crowds since |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:04 PM Response to Reply #82 |
98. Big crowds are gross. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #49 |
101. Some perspective on those numbers though... |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
88. Of course there are wonderful festivals now, |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:02 PM Response to Reply #88 |
97. See, I think it would be much cooler to say you were at Altamont! |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #97 |
103. Jefferson Airplane, CSN, Santana, others that I can't remember now. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:02 PM Response to Reply #103 |
119. See, that's the problem with these big festivals. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:50 PM Response to Reply #119 |
130. It was for the experience. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:01 PM Response to Reply #130 |
132. Yeah, I know. I was mostly referring to these modern big stadium shows with the video monitors. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 01:03 AM Response to Reply #132 |
140. Oh, I misunderstood you at first. |
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CANDO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:06 PM Response to Reply #119 |
281. Hell, I watched the 25th Anniversary Woodstaock on pay per view! |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
15. So why start a thread about it? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:59 PM Original message |
I do care! I want people to understand that the magic they felt there is universal |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
26. I don't know, your OP sounded sort of complain-y. I agree with you, though |
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MrMickeysMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
117. Ahh... Now I begin to understand your point |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. But you're wrong...because they, and not you, dominate the contemporary cultural narrative... |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. That is the perfect reply. Thank you for introducing me to the term |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
33. They are well aware of what they do... |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:59 PM Response to Reply #33 |
96. nevermind |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:52 AM Response to Reply #33 |
155. Oh please |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #17 |
28. Actually, the people who dominate the "contemporary cultural narrative" are into Hannah Montana. |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
18. The Monterey Pop Festival in the summer of 1967 looked way more fun.... |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Hendrix's Monterey performance blows woodstock out of the water. |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:39 AM Response to Reply #22 |
139. Janis was awesome too. Everyone looked like they were having way too much fun. |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:25 AM Response to Reply #139 |
208. Yeah. By Woodstock I couldn't even tell if Janis was singing a tune anymore. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. Absolutely! Monterey looks like it was a very special event. I would have loved to be there. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
89. I was there at Altamont, |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #18 |
126. The Who right before Hendrix |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
20. I agree. For those who experienced the very first Lollapalooza - |
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creeksneakers2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:27 PM Response to Reply #20 |
43. What was the larger meaning of it? |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. It was a gathering of the counterculture of the time - |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:51 PM Response to Reply #43 |
91. LOL, music to be played 40 years from now? |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:20 AM Response to Reply #91 |
213. Zing....great response! |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #91 |
248. Nicely done |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:55 AM Response to Reply #20 |
156. The first Lolapalooza was awesome! |
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knowbody0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
24. I sense you are jealous |
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ElboRuum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:45 PM Response to Reply #24 |
53. You sense... poorly. n/t |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
107. That's BECAUSE you guys boinked everyone. Promiscuity spreads STDs |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:59 AM Response to Reply #24 |
158. An amazing collective sprit that rallied behind dismantling nearly all the progressive work |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:05 AM Response to Reply #158 |
185. I have a great difficulty with the issues you bring up as well. |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 05:51 PM Response to Reply #185 |
254. It's true but we can't say that they're definitively better either |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #24 |
268. Exactly - |
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Zix (881 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:40 PM Response to Reply #24 |
270. Well, how do you know that? |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
25. I remember it and saying, whats the big deal? Stomping around in the |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
48. Exactly. THose who were there were saying the same thing AT THE TIME. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:54 PM Response to Reply #48 |
94. I can't imagine that anyone who lived in San Francisco and saw all of these bands at the Fillmore... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
31. Woodstock envy. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
34. I experienced "multiple Woodstocks" including several generations of Grateful Dead fans |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:39 AM Response to Reply #34 |
299. no you didn't . no festifval since has had the diversity of music that woodstock had |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
35. I disagree about its historical importance. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:13 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Good point about Woodstock's significance to the commodification of cool |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:49 PM Response to Reply #37 |
90. Yep, commodification of cool. That's the term I was looking for. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:27 PM Response to Reply #90 |
135. I think Thomas Frank coined the term... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:58 AM Response to Reply #135 |
157. The analysis is flawed and incomplete. And it was Thomas Frank. |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:25 PM Response to Reply #35 |
62. And we have a winner!!**nm |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:28 PM Response to Reply #35 |
110. +1. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:05 PM Response to Reply #110 |
122. Actually, I have to disagree with you there... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:25 PM Response to Reply #122 |
128. I hope you are right! |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:02 AM Response to Reply #35 |
159. Nope :P Raves are still alive and well in some parts of the country |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:51 PM Response to Reply #35 |
226. Yours is the most salient post on this thread. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 01:35 PM Response to Reply #226 |
233. Salient Green is People |
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Yunomi (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
36. The summer of 1998? |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
38. A bit off course if you ask me. Thanks for the lecture though. |
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Hansel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:00 PM Response to Reply #38 |
60. I would agree with the election of Barack Obama being vaguely similar |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #60 |
68. Arlo is a registered Republican? |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #68 |
77. that caused me to Google also |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:55 PM Response to Reply #77 |
95. W...T...F! |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:34 PM Response to Reply #95 |
136. I remember when he crossed a picket line at a theater several years ago... |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:46 AM Response to Reply #95 |
197. Wow. n/t |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #60 |
75. I grew up listening to him; |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:03 AM Response to Reply #60 |
160. First post in the thread that points out what the OP has missed completely. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:21 AM Response to Reply #60 |
186. I like that assessment. I am very open to the idea that it was a historical culmination |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:22 PM Response to Reply #60 |
238. Wow! "Mass freedom meant that people believed they could best achieve their fullest freedom |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
40. Oh dear |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
42. The iroooooneeeee--it hurts!!! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:06 AM Response to Reply #42 |
162. Check this out: |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:23 AM Response to Reply #162 |
187. I love creation and don't see what your connection there is. |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
44. What the hell happened in 1998? That was like... last week. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:41 PM Response to Reply #44 |
51. This was the top 5 for the year. |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:49 PM Response to Reply #51 |
54. O Wow! |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #51 |
93. C'mon, dude |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:44 PM Response to Reply #51 |
129. That was the year I graduated from college and maybe you can't quite understand if you weren't there |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:32 AM Response to Reply #129 |
151. Actually, I disagree... |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:26 AM Response to Reply #51 |
188. Those were MY top 5 too! |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
45. Actually, nothing of importance happened before I was born. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:06 PM Response to Reply #45 |
100. What an absolutely ridiculous statement. |
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BlueJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
52. The Idea that the Musicians at Woodstock were "above the Cut" is one of the most... |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:03 PM Response to Reply #52 |
120. I don't think Hendrix' performance will ever be duplicated. |
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BlueJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:19 PM Response to Reply #120 |
125. There were good highlights in the music...Hendrix andJanis being 2 of them. |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:43 AM Response to Reply #125 |
195. Santana, The Who, etc... |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
55. The truth is, a mass awakening happened at Woodstock 40 years ago, |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:38 PM Response to Reply #55 |
269. Here's the joke - |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
56. Nothing at all happened because Woodstock itself didn't happen |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #56 |
70. Absolutely....it was done with 11 people, mirrors and Richie Havens ! |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
57. Those of us who lived at the time |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 04:58 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. Oh, SO well said!!! Thank you. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #59 |
71. You are welcome, of course! nt |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:54 PM Response to Reply #57 |
65. Well done. You made this thread worthwhile. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:36 PM Response to Reply #65 |
72. Thanks. nt |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:38 AM Response to Reply #57 |
191. Great post. Thank you. nt |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #57 |
272. Amen - |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
61. The truth is |
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Hansel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:43 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. Amen. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:32 AM Response to Reply #63 |
189. Riiiiigght. And the boomers get to sit back because they already have theirs, right? |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:09 PM Response to Reply #61 |
123. Nothing is really happening today eh? The keyboard and monitor aren't effecting any change? |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:52 PM Response to Reply #123 |
137. Then by all means |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:37 AM Response to Reply #137 |
141. It's pretty hilarious that you use marching as your example of real activism. |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:16 AM Response to Reply #141 |
145. You ask that seriously? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:23 AM Response to Reply #145 |
147. I'm not entirely sure why you dignified that idiotic remark with an answer. |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:24 AM Response to Reply #147 |
148. it |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:30 AM Response to Reply #148 |
150. May as well commemorate Teh Stupid.... |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:42 AM Response to Reply #150 |
152. Wow, didn't think that really needed the sarcasm smiley but thanks for the vote of confidence guys. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:47 AM Response to Reply #152 |
153. You're welcome. |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:13 AM Response to Reply #153 |
165. ya know Bloo |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:19 AM Response to Reply #165 |
170. Obviously not a history prof. |
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Raschel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:54 AM Response to Reply #165 |
223. A lot of people today say the same. Don't give the problem any attention. Ignore it and it will |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:08 AM Response to Reply #152 |
163. it's your |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #163 |
219. Yeah, it sounds pretty stupid huh? |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #219 |
264. you shut down any |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:06 AM Response to Reply #150 |
161. hahahahahahahah |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:17 AM Response to Reply #161 |
167. I considered mashing it up with Springsteen lyrics, but chose to stay more faithful to the original. |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:20 AM Response to Reply #167 |
173. I'm so glad we left the younger generation |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:22 AM Response to Reply #173 |
174. Heh. Well I'm sort of a slut with these things. I like it all up to about 3-5 years ago.... |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 05:02 AM Response to Reply #174 |
184. I'm so with you Bloo |
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Raschel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #145 |
221. Those guys protesting in the background - are they Freepers and Birthers? |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:28 AM Response to Reply #141 |
149. Oh hell. I thought you were asking about the 36" step every second that allowed military commanders |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:18 AM Response to Reply #141 |
294. You forgot your sarcasm smiley... |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:01 AM Response to Reply #123 |
199. so industries going out of business is some sort of accomplishment now? |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:48 AM Response to Reply #199 |
220. I'm just objecting to the idea that no change can happen from behind a keyboard and a monitor. |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:05 AM Response to Reply #220 |
293. i get it, but really with the advent of cell phones and mobile internet and DVD players |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:26 AM Response to Reply #61 |
296. oh today these kids passively video police abuse |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 11:04 AM Response to Reply #61 |
301. Correct. n/t |
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Paladin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
64. When God Walked The Earth In The Magical Summer Of 1998.... |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:35 PM Response to Reply #64 |
85. Perhaps; but then I still got to hear god laugh. |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
66. ok.... |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
69. nevermind all that |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:58 PM Response to Reply #69 |
279. Best. Post. In.This. Whole.Thread. |
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southernyankeebelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
73. I lived during that time period - I was glad I never attended Woodstock - |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
74. You haven't the foggiest notion what you're talking about. Did you ever get drafted? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:40 PM Response to Reply #74 |
87. Those events did not happen at woodstock. |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:40 AM Response to Reply #87 |
209. I mean that the people there were involved before, during and after that event |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:18 AM Response to Reply #74 |
168. Did you come of age to the flaming shitstorm that your generation left of America? |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 05:01 AM Response to Reply #168 |
183. +1 n/t |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:35 AM Response to Reply #168 |
190. Double-plus 1! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #190 |
236. Orwellian, much? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:54 PM Response to Reply #236 |
243. Obviously. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 06:28 PM Response to Reply #243 |
258. So you mean the opposite of good when you use it. Maybe just use -1 |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #168 |
207. Sorry, but I was WAY too young for Woodstock. So you're barking up the wrong tree there. |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:55 PM Response to Reply #168 |
278. Oh my GOD this 39 year old thanks you from the bottom of her |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
76. I can't believe that many people fell for the illusion ... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
79. I've only seen pics. People playing in the mud except they're not toddlers. |
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SCRUBDASHRUB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 07:44 PM Response to Reply #79 |
80. I was born the year after Woodstock. |
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SCRUBDASHRUB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:22 PM Response to Reply #80 |
106. When I was in high school, I really got into the music of the 1960s. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
81. Another "I hate mommy and daddy's generation" thread?! |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:19 PM Response to Reply #81 |
83. it is indeed pathetic and tiresome |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #83 |
84. It was the Golden Age of Good Times and Promiscuity! |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #84 |
104. back when DEA was the first three letters in the word DEAL |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:25 AM Response to Reply #81 |
178. You might be all right... but Mommy and Daddy broke the fucking country |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:47 PM Response to Reply #178 |
225. Anyone who blames their parents for anything isn't fully grown yet. |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 05:54 PM Response to Reply #225 |
255. HAH! I don't blame my "parents" for my choices but I blame them for theirs |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:39 AM Response to Reply #81 |
192. I have many issues with the consumerist generation that HAPPENED to precede me, |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:51 PM Response to Reply #192 |
227. You're IN the most consumerist generation! |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 01:24 PM Response to Reply #227 |
231. Yeah! and all those non-biodegradable diapers I shat in too! |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:40 PM Response to Reply #227 |
249. Who is selling them that shit? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #81 |
222. The Boomers needs to quit obsessing over themselves. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #222 |
228. Your generation could get its own DU group, but that would take effort. |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
86. It is the same experience for the thousands that were actually there |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
92. Deleted message |
G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:05 PM Response to Reply #92 |
99. recognizing an anniversary |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
102. Woodstock is the most overrated cultural event in the 20th Century. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:23 PM Response to Reply #102 |
108. Smoking a joint in Minnesota on a Friday night is not quite the same. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:38 PM Response to Reply #108 |
112. Yep, no mud, shitty hot weather, and idiots who took the brown acid. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:28 PM Response to Reply #102 |
109. Half a million people. Several days. An iconic event. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:52 PM Response to Reply #109 |
116. I never said it wasnt a big event, I just said it was overrated. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:23 AM Response to Reply #116 |
175. "Obama's election is far more comparable to 1968 than to Woodstock." |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:44 AM Response to Reply #175 |
218. What? I'm just pointing out that other generations didn't see the Boomers in such a positive light. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 01:22 PM Response to Reply #218 |
230. Your opinions are SO misinformed, Odin, rather than battle here, why don't you listen and learn |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:08 PM Response to Reply #230 |
245. Please don;t misunderstand me, I'm NOT bashing you guys. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 06:25 PM Response to Reply #245 |
256. Please don't include me in "you guys." I hear your concerns yet the fights stem from cliched thinkin |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 06:57 PM Response to Reply #256 |
260. Point taken! |
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Garbo 2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:04 PM Response to Reply #245 |
265. You mean vast generalizations denigrating an entire generation, as if it's a monolithic |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:11 PM Response to Reply #109 |
124. So a rock festival is equivalent to the first African American president? |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:30 AM Response to Reply #109 |
180. I'll only stew about it if Obama makes some real change |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #102 |
115. You just don't get it and you can't because you have no reference to base it on. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:57 PM Response to Reply #115 |
118. Wow, what an arrogant pronouncement. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:26 AM Response to Reply #118 |
179. "What "freedom" no longer exists that prevents such a large musical event from happening again?" |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:41 AM Response to Reply #179 |
193. Tazers, for one. Freedom isn't free!!! 100292902028 |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:06 AM Response to Reply #179 |
202. Why don't you answer the question instead of posting a snarky smilie? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #179 |
214. It's a serious question. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 01:43 PM Response to Reply #214 |
235. You can't think of anything about freedom in society that's different now from then |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #235 |
244. A few security people for safety is anti-freedom? |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 06:26 PM Response to Reply #244 |
257. Oh come on. PICTURE IT. Picture security then and now. The fact you take it for granted is PROOF |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:48 AM Response to Reply #118 |
201. See, your very statement demonstrates that you don't have any frame of reference to |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #201 |
216. Sad that you have fallen for the Boomer hagiography. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #216 |
224. It was a nasty time and the minority of the Boomers rejected it. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:19 AM Response to Reply #102 |
169. . |
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Toasterlad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
111. How Foolish You Are. You Don't Have to Attend an Event for it to Be Important. |
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crazy_vanilla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
113. Woodstock is of no interest to me |
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billh58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
121. It's an oldie, but |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
131. I'm not sad that I missed out on woodstock but I am sad that I missed out on that era |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:45 AM Response to Reply #131 |
210. Hear hear! I was too young to experience it, too, except the way a |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
133. I am 33 and a Gen Xer but always loved the music of the late 60's. Woodstock ruled. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:43 AM Response to Reply #133 |
194. I love many of the 60s artists too. |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #194 |
215. I understood what you meant |
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SCRUBDASHRUB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:44 PM Response to Reply #133 |
242. Here, here, Jennicut. |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-15-09 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
134. 100% disagree |
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pilar007 (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
142. Another perspective...if I may |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:43 AM Response to Reply #142 |
144. Have any good stories about the Strip? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:21 AM Response to Original message |
146. If you can remember Woodstock.. |
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Morning Dew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:10 AM Response to Original message |
164. Hey kid, get off my lawn. |
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MichaelHarris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:16 AM Response to Reply #164 |
166. Us hippies got the last laugh, |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:19 AM Response to Original message |
171. Deleted message |
BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:31 AM Response to Reply #171 |
181. Rodney Dangerfield called. He wants his Over The Top back.... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:39 AM Response to Reply #181 |
182. I didn't and you know that. Don't add to teh stupid. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:45 AM Response to Reply #181 |
196. Really? The original post and/or poster is 'fucking stupid'? |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:38 PM Response to Reply #181 |
241. Nice job, BiB. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #241 |
247. It wasn't me, no matter how much you care to make shit up about it. Alerting posts... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 06:34 PM Response to Reply #247 |
259. Didn't say you did. See if you read more carefully, you won't misinterpret as frequently. |
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WillieW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:24 AM Response to Original message |
177. Speak for yourself. It was awesome!! |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
198. I suppose you had to have been there... n/t |
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zinziber officinale (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
206. The irony is that you say that |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
211. Nothing happened because YOU weren't there, cupcake. |
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WillieW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:32 PM Response to Reply #211 |
240. Oh, yes I was there. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
217. It will be considered a historical event roughly equal to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893 |
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Raschel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 12:57 PM Response to Reply #217 |
229. Every generation thinks you "just had to be there," |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:45 PM Response to Reply #217 |
251. Once again, you provide penetrating insight |
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d_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
232. lol @ summer of 98 |
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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
234. What's up with the anger? |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
239. Wrong. |
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MzNov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
246. I suppose if everyone sat there in the mud Twittering |
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ElboRuum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 01:31 PM Response to Reply #246 |
305. You forgot "and get off my lawn!" |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
250. I heard it was all faked on a soundstage in Arizona. n/t |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
252. One day, you too will be "old", my friend... |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
261. Fucking recommend. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #261 |
262. The hippies won't come back, you say |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 11:11 AM Response to Reply #261 |
302. Do you hate people who are pro-womens rights? |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #302 |
303. It's easy. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 03:32 PM Response to Reply #303 |
309. Goddammit; I hate that I didn't notice this before. |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #309 |
311. The fact that it took so long for any of the hippies to ask is telling. |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
263. I wasn't there, but we had a cause, actually several causes |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
271. I was born in 1970, so I've heard about it my whole life. |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
275. I did want to say---- |
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rapturedbyrobots (364 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
283. faux pas |
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Erin Elizabeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-16-09 09:53 PM Response to Reply #283 |
286. Thank you. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #283 |
295. May your visit here be enjoyed by all of us. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:48 AM Response to Reply #295 |
300. I have over 8000 posts, and I tend to agree with him. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 01:35 PM Response to Reply #300 |
306. And at 8000+ go ahead and tell half od DU to fuck off and die |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #295 |
304. Do I have enough posts yet to say that I agree with him? n/t |
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brendan120678 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 03:19 PM Response to Reply #304 |
308. Nope, sorry.... |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #308 |
312. Well since they all became bankers and investment advisors... |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
297. Look at Jefferson Airplane, a perfect emblem of both Woodstock and selling out. |
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brendan120678 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
298. I think that I more or less agree with you.... |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 01:37 PM Response to Reply #298 |
307. "Looking back 40 years, Woodstock has managed only to inflate boomers’ expectations of themselves |
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sonofspy777 (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
310. wrongo |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 05:43 PM Response to Reply #310 |
313. "it was really us who brought an end to the war." |
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