Comments on: FURTHER! wait... not so far!

FURTHER! wait... not so far!

loquacious — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:36:25 -0800

Steal this bus! Up for auction: The Ultimate Hippy Vacation. You will be required to sell Tie-dyed T-shirts for gas and food money. UPDATE!! Cody has contacted the mother ship. He said today the stars are in alignment, but the destination is still unknown. I believe I mentioned that my brother-in-law might be a little "touched in the head". Maybe it runs in the family.

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:42:26 -0800

By: SweetJesus

SweetJesus — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:42:34 -0800

Fuckin' Hippies...

By: snsranch

snsranch — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:47:52 -0800

Metafilter: Best of the Hemp or sumpthin.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:03:50 -0800

Man, if I weren't a soft, flabby suburbanite with a girlfriend, a steady job and an apartment, I might actually be tempted. Where was this guy when I was just getting out of college?

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:28:46 -0800

I wonder how much of that is actually tinfoil-hat wearing (honest!) "hippy" or a ploy to get earn some money. If it was an even split, hell, sure. I'm in for a few weeks then I'll be on my way, wherever it ended up. Anyway, wasn't exploiting other people monetarily exactly *not* what the hippy culture was all about?

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:32:50 -0800

oh, this is great (view seller's other items) - Serious Pursuit: The Game of Soviet Seapower. Um, could someone call homeland security/tsa/whatever-it-is-now? I'd do it but it's a long-distance call for me.

By: If I Had An Anus

If I Had An Anus — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:38:44 -0800

Current bid: US $2,950.00 *hangs out with his wang out*

By: nervousfritz

nervousfritz — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:21:33 -0800

Metafilter: Fuckin' Hippies.

By: Clay201

Clay201 — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:20:15 -0800

HELP US MAKE PULSE WATCH THIS AUCTION Exsqueeze me? Baking powder?

By: techgnollogic

techgnollogic — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:56:33 -0800

I thought this post was going to be about this.

By: cleardawn

cleardawn — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:55:03 -0800

This has nothing to do with real hippies. A real hippy rides the road of love, with people he loves. He doesn't sell rides to the highest bidder on eBay. A real hippy doesn't need a satellite dish and tinfoil hat to commune with the Great Spirit. Just an open heart. As for selling tie-dye T-shirts, good luck with that! You can make ten times as much selling cups of tea and fried eggs by the roadside. Just sayin'.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:03:00 -0800

Duly noted, cleardawn. I'm more-or-less a techno hippy. Somewhere between gutterpunk and dirt hippy. I'm not laughing at this guy, I'm laughing with him. Ok, I'm laughing at him, too, but that's ok. I've met and known plenty of real people that make this guy look like an accountant. The veracity of this dude's hippyness I guess is up for debate, not because he's using a satellite dish to talk to the Mother Ship, but simply because it's eBay. Even if he's the real deal, it's his brother that's supposedly putting up the auction to get him and his bus out of the yard. And I agree with the cups of tea over tie-dyes. There's a sweet hippy bus up in the Verde Valley that I've visited that sells the choicest cups of fresh ground french-pressed coffee I like to visit when I'm up there. Ice cold veggie burrito? Cheers.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:07:07 -0800

Holy crap. The bid has almost doubled since posting this. ... !!

By: muckster

muckster — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:11:25 -0800

What good is tour without a band to follow?

By: cleardawn

cleardawn — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:43:24 -0800

real people that make this guy look like an accountant. Several decades ago, a guy called Little John taught me how to pick mushrooms (now illegal, sadly) on a sacred hill in England. He was about five feet tall, had a long beard, red hair down to his waist, dressed in flared jeans, boots, and tie-dye T-shirts, had an evil sense of humor, and played a mean jazz guitar. For years, he was my archetypal image of the ultimate pot-head pixie. He then became an accountant. Funny old world, innit. Rumor has it he still grows cacti in his spare time.

By: digaman

digaman — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:00:06 -0800

I'm afraid the driver of that bus violates an old personal rule from my days in Grateful Dead parking lots: never buy drugs from someone you don't want to look like after you take them.

By: wannabehippie

wannabehippie — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:00:34 -0800

Ideally, I need to be on this bus. But hippies with a satellite dish?

By: cleardawn

cleardawn — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:13:45 -0800

Thanks, wannabehippie, for indirectly causing me to laugh at this.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:17:49 -0800

Is somebody selling an Ultimate Redneck Vacation where the get to shoot at this bus? My credit card is ready...