One if by Land, Two if by Sea

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:23 pm

The Rainbows are Coming ! The Rainbows are Coming!

i have just heard from a reliable source that the rainbowites are planning a mass break-in this year around the perimeter figuring they can overwhelm and take safety in numbers.

evidently it is well-organized (yeah, right....hippies, well organized)

i hope this is not the case as it will reflect badly on the event....a gift economy is one thing, a MOOCH economy is unacceptable.

i can imagine the local Leo's will not be amused by this incursion of the smelly hordes, and will be strained if it does occur.

again, this is just hearsay, and i dont want to start a panic, but i smell patchouli.

has anyone else heard anything?

zabsinth · Post by **zabsinth** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:37 pm

Does this mean that they'll need volunteers to haul stringy, bearded corpses dripping with hand-knotted hempen moop from the middle of the playa?

If so, sign me up!

Funky Monkey Mech · Post by **Funky Monkey Mech** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:40 pm

Its time to in act the Burner MinuteMen...

TO ARMS TO ARMS!
Lets get all the MV with flame effects and when we see the mass hippy army coming to try and raid the event we unleash hell on them... or we can just ambush them at the edge of the city after they hop the fence and start taking them down one by one..... we must stop this patchouli wreaking hoard from destroying the burn.... I mean if this actually happens i can see the BLM and local LEO's flipping a shit and denying next years burn.... WTF!!! AHHHH DAM HIPPIES!

ZaphodBurner · Post by **ZaphodBurner** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:53 pm

Thanks for the warning. It may be a rumor but we better be prepared.

I recommend placing barbeques around the perimeter and cooking copies amounts of bacon. Bacon is to Hippie as Garlic is to Vampire. In fact, wear a piece of bacon around your neck.

Alternatively, you could make a pipe out of really oily summer sausage and--(hey, why haven't I thought of that previously?)--load it up with some really good weed. It's like intellectual rat poison. They'll turn on each other and it'll be all "Champa, you totally promised you would give up meat if I let you henna-paint my tits" and "SCREW YOU SHAKRA, I GOT THE GAIA-DAMN MUNCHIES!"

If that fails, I say the DPW fine some farmer willing to sell a goat or a pig, bring it out in front of the man and slaughter it. Bring out a really big Noble Fir and set it on fire.

"Three new drum circles have sprouted up here, here, and here. They're all growing in diameter, at a rate of two hippies per hour. What this means... is that the hippies are conglomerating... When hippies start to nest in a new area, it draws other hippies in. With the right weather conditions and topography, it can lead to a music festival. One that last for days, even weeks. Reggae on the River, Woodstock, Burning Man, they will all pale in comparison to what we're looking at now..." -Cartman

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:11 pm

i can imagine the local Leo's will not be amused by this incursion of the smelly hordes, and will be strained if it does occur.

again, this is just hearsay, and i dont want to start a panic, but i smell patchouli.

has anyone else heard anything?

I think if you check the eplaya threads over the last three(?) years or so this rumor ends up on the radar just around this very time of the year.

It never pans out and I suspect Simon's correct about the inability of hippies to do anything in a coordinated manner. The logistics would be hard enough for frat boys. Still, it might be a good idea to order up a few backhoes and trench a small 2-3' deep moat filled with warm soapy water around the entire perimeter.

Backup volunteers would stand the within the perimeter fence with Super Soakers full of warm water and dishwashing soap.

That'd be like tossing a vampire into the middle of the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

Marscrumbs · Post by **Marscrumbs** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:32 pm

The lack of trees to hug is like krytonite to these folk. They don't survive long in the desert. And the ones that do will already be inside.

Dusza Beben · Post by **Dusza Beben** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:03 pm

Well, there was that double rainbow last year... They might be taking it as a sign of the return of the summer of love and the resurection of Jerry Garcia and the uncontrollable urge to sell grilled cheese sandwiches and veggie burritos for gas money has to have an outlet man!

All minute men please report to Terrapin Station for breifing as soon as you hit the playa!

DB

Funky Monkey Mech · Post by **Funky Monkey Mech** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:30 pm

*** Loads 3 day pack with food, water, 1ply, tea, cup, beer, stove, fuel, and big mist backpack to shoot warm soapy water at the hippy insurgents....*** REPORTING FOR DUTY SIR... weapon all loaded and ready.... time to go out on hippy patrol... if i don't make it back tell the DPW i did my best sir!

chiefdanfox · Post by **chiefdanfox** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:36 pm

So what's up with the hippie haters?

zmau · Post by **zmau** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:49 pm

[/quote]TO ARMS TO ARMS!
Lets get all the MV with flame effects and when we see the mass hippy army coming to try and raid the event we unleash hell on them...

- Oh Lord, the smell. Scorched leathery flesh, super-heated patchouli, burnt dredlocks, and smoldering hemp. . .

I don't think burning them is a good idea at all. Even if you caught them before they crossed the trash-fence.

Perhaps we could form a militia of Employment Agents. Offering them Jobs would be a sure deterent.

Funky Monkey Mech · Post by **Funky Monkey Mech** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:09 pm

Usually i got no problem with some of the ones i know cause they work and stuff and in there off time they are hippies..... Just lately all the ones i have bin running into are trying to mooch a lot..... i mean i have ran into a lot of the...... give me a whole free trip to burning man and i will rub your back once and be your friend type hippies..... which just rub me the wrong way...

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:31 pm

post "Help Wanted" signs around the perimeter, and, maybe job applications on the fence..........

**burn** · Post by **burn** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:54 pm

Arm ourselves with hair clippers and buzzers.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:19 pm

Funny that the outside world thinks the burn and rainbow gatherings are the same thing.
Burning man is considered dirtier because of the dust actually.

I could be more of a snob to the rainbow folks if we weren't paying so many bribes to the different agencies.

Absolut Jeenyus · Post by **Absolut Jeenyus** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:46 am

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:50 am

i've found a simple, non-invasive technology that will stop hippies dead in their tracks and send them screaming for the nearest anti-war organizing cafe and lending library.

it's called Neil Diamond at 120 Decibals....I like "Song Sung Blue", but "Sweet Caroline", especially the live version, works great too.

but seriously folks, if this does occur, i have faith in the xenophobic nature of group psychology, that we, as Burners will defend our right to a no drum circle circle.
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EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:35 am

Peace on you my brother.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:33 pm

Imagine a thousand hippies being able to come up with all that gas money.... driving the long way around to enter the playa... evading LEOs,,,,finding their way across the playa to BRC.... and then getting lost on the playa with nothing to drink but bong water. I'd bet on dust-devils but not rainbows.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:39 pm

chiefdanfox wrote:So what's up with the hippie haters?

I recognize the background and the "hippies". Laguna Del Sol Nudist Resort in Sacramento, Ca

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:53 pm

Hippies are getting a bad rap. Just for you kids that don't know it. Hippies stopped a war, Hippies got into politics in big ways and made big differences. The Rainbow group has a lot of love, shares and gives a lot of love, no hate just love and is the oldest disorganized thing still going on.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/con ... ndex.shtml

I kinda wish there were more young people like there were then, who seemed to care about shit, not so much about themselves. I think the burner community, no matter how much fun the make of hippies, are just a big bunch of HIPPIES. Simon, you a closet hippy?

abbie hoffman wrote a book, called "steal this book". listed bunches of ways to get by for free and have fun while doing it.

and Burning Man people have lots in common with the Rainbow Gathering people.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:10 pm

yeah, "Steal the Book"..........
live off others, makes sure "the Man" pays your way............love that............

"No hate, just love" , unless, you dis-agree with them..........

as individuals, I love 'em all. As groups go, there are many that waste good air............

nope, not cynical or jaded.........

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:28 am

Simon, you a closet hippy?

shut up, you'll blow my cover which i have worked very hard to create.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:55 am

Hippies stopped a war, Hippies got into politics in big ways and made big differences.

What unadulterated bullshit.

Students, activists, parents, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers stopped that fucking war.

And though some people in each of those categories may have laid claimed to being hippies to suggest that any one demographic stopped the war does a disservice to the truth.

betrdanevr · Post by **betrdanevr** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:22 pm

Cheese, Louise. Has BM turned into a group of Republican ravers?

And Isotopia, I think you just gave a great description of "hippies."

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:49 pm

Funky Monkey Mech wrote: Lets get all the MV with flame effects and when we see the mass hippy army coming to try and raid the event we unleash hell on them...

Our hero: a device called "The Hippie Roaster 3000"!!
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wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:48 pm

Isotopia wrote:
Hippies stopped a war, Hippies got into politics in big ways and made big differences.
What unadulterated bullshit.

Students, activists, parents, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers stopped that fucking war.

And though some people in each of those categories may have laid claimed to being hippies to suggest that any one demographic stopped the war does a disservice to the truth.

ALL OF MY BULLSHIT IS COMPLETLY ADULTRATED!

Even today Hippies are doing more to stop the war then most others.

http://www.hippy.com/

If hemp was legal hippies would be rich!!

Maybe you had to be there. It was a little hippy chick that stuck a flower in the barrel of the rifle the national guardsman carried. It was the people with the peace signs embroidered on their jeans that first said "war is not healthy for children and other living things"

peace

Now don't bother me, I'm getting ready to go BURN SOME SHIT.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:20 am

i have moved on, as should all hippies, into the realm of the ZIPPY!

zeitgeist international party...

pin-heads are welcome.

so are explosives.

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:03 am

Oooh, Zippy. I love me the Zippy. Used to swipe my brother's comix and wish I had drugs. He still has them in a box somewhere. The comix, not drugs.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:09 am

Dope will get you through times of no money better then money will get you through times of no dope.

You can't go back, you can never go back.

Father of LSD Albert Hofman died at age of 102 April of this year.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 845509.ece

"He himself took the drug, purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest, for several decades."

Simon of the Playa wrote:i have moved on, as should all hippies, into the realm of the ZIPPY!

zeitgeist international party...

pin-heads are welcome.

so are explosives.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:23 am

wedeliver wrote:Dope will get you through times of no money better then money will get you through times of no dope.

You can't go back, you can never go back.

Father of LSD Albert Hofman died at age of 102 April of this year.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 845509.ece

"He himself took the drug, purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest, for several decades."

hhhhhmmmmmm.................