Re: Woodstock anniversary and hippies

On Aug 9, 9:53 pm, H the K <noonespec...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
CalifBill wrote:
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Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 9, 5:11 pm, H the K <noonespec...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jps wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:30:42 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
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On this anniversary of Woodstock, I have read a few memories of this
supposedly blessed event.  I admit the music musta been good but it
also seems to me that everybody there was nothing more than a spoiled
rich kid whose daddy paid for the tickets and transportation.
ALL the "hippies" I ever knew were like that, rich daddies who kept
them in money so they could preach peace and love.  The rest of us
poorer kids worked to support their lazy asses.
I'm sorry, how is it that you worked to support their lazy asses?
You know little to nothing of hippies, obviously.
Froggy is just prepping for his upcoming trip to Jacksonville, where he
can protest along with his fellow birthers-teabaggers-health care reform
avoiders.
A lot of these hippies were kids of college profs here in Tallahassee
and I was saving to pay for tuition to pay their daddies salaries.  In
later years, these same hippie parasites eventually became govt
workers and often are now upper managers with far greater than average
salaries.

If you were paying in-state tuition FSU during the hippie era, you could
have earned more than enough for tuition, room, board and books by selling
donuts in the dorms.

Are you complaining because your so-called hippies got jobs?

Bull crap.  I paid instate tuition in Calif, which had one of the cheaper
state tuitions.  $!25 a semester plus books.  A good job paided about $120 a
week.  Working in a service station, etc was about $75 a week.  And you
would have been working part time most likely.

Some of us were smarter than you, Bilious, and were able to earn a bit
more.

At that time, tuition was about $12-15/quarter hour (we had quarters
instead of semesters) and a full load was 12-15 quarter hours so it
was only about $225/quarter. Rent was a lot more, about $150/month,
roaches were a bonus source of protein. In 3 months, I could easily
make the $225 even at $1.90/hr at roughly 25 hours/week. Working over
summers, I could save enough for most of my rent during the school
year. Utilities? This is FL, who needs heat and AC is never
required. Food? A bag of flour, a big bag of rice, a bag of pinto
beans, cheap vegetables then, cheap eggs, cheap pasta, peanut butter.
Entertainment, my gf and I would collect soda bottles for the 5 cent
deposit to go to a cheap movie.
Today, I am not even sure what my daughter pays for tuition, probably
about $1500/semester at a state school. Rent is about $450/month for
each girl in a 3 room place. Not gonna let my daughter go hungry and
she doesnt eat much anyway so I give her money. We pay her car
insurance cuz a chick cannot go everywhere on a bicycle like I did.
We pay for her gas in her Toyota Echo so she will come home from
Jacksonville every few weeks. She works waiting tables.
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