Hi Guys, 53 yr old Ageing,(gracefully)ex-hippie who managed to keep enough of his brain intact to be playing Trivia against my son's generation in the '90's.....ooops...'scuse me....'Is it really that late...a week went by, and now it's July...anyway, I'm holding up this end of the earth...South Africa....and i just wish someone would come and take the other end...

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allll righty then! Quite an entrance

Nice win last night for you guys in the cricket. Hope it can keep up but I wish you'd stop playing at silly hours like 3am

lol and thx for the welcome, CinnaMon and Copago *bowing*...as far as the timing of the cricket's concerned, one just has to be Directly Above The Centre Of The Earth At All Times and then they play at a reasonable time.....simple, really :-)

excuse me....cinnamOn

Welcome from the great white north.

cheers skunkee...from the 'rainbow' south.....not PC to be 'Darkest Africa' these days, what with the African Renaissance and all.....and while I wish it were true, I don't hold out much hope....in the short term anyway...you from Alaska, or Canada....*not quite making out the accent*

Welcome to the forums!

Canada - home of hockey and some of the world's finest people.

Welcome to our forums Wombat, I hope that you have a good experience here, we are not such a bad bunch of people, even the Australians!

Ex-hippie- I am impressed, but why the ex?
Welcome from another who is firmly based in the 60's, there are quite a few more here if you know where to look! Enjoy it here

I very much agree with Sat on this one...it has been my experience that once a hippie, always a hippie, actually. One merely graduates from wearing bells in their hair and roaming the streets barefoot to a lifestyle ..um..well, a tad more cumbersome, anyway [ generally with a mortgage attached]
No one would guess by my completely tame appearance these days that I lived in a teepee for a while, and ground my own chick peas. And at least in my heart - I am still grinding my own chick peas, no matter what my outer facade tells people.

Make yourself at home on these forums, and I 'm sure you'll enjoy meeting the folks here.

You're right, Sat and Kt.....why try and pretend.....if I can manage to get my pic up, everyone will know the awful truth anyway....that I'm actually an unregenerate degenerate( spent too much time with the Gene-Besserit[sp?]).....and the sp Doesn't stand for Spice.. ;-)...it's Tough in Africa, sigh.

haha, I used to live in SA, in Cape Town. I hope I can say that without my post getting removed...dunn dunn dunnnnnnn.

Welcome, please do not stalk me. I have enough grupies already.

I welcome you, zombat, while clutching my dog-eared copies of Ginsberg, Kerouac and Corso. I'm glad you're here, for several reasons. Naturally I'm glad you're here just because you're here but maybe you can answer a question that has plagued my flashback-y brain for decades: what is the difference between a hippie and a beat-nik? Is it okay to call myself a hip-nik? These are important questions, mind you . I need to get this all figured out before AARP shows up with paperwork and all. Hey...have fun, OK? You'll like it here. Welcome!