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Have a bet to settle and I need YOUR help!
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:17 pm
by PurdueWx80
This involves a long story and I'll spare the details for now, but I need your help.
Tell me the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Berkeley, as in the school in Berkeley, CA. AFter that, if there is anything else you might want to add, please do. Thanks so much in advance!
Andy
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:59 pm
by streetsoldier
"Weather Faction" of the SDS...the most violent and dangerous of the "peace (?) -niks".
Re: Have a bet to settle and I need YOUR help!
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:00 pm
by HurryKane
PurdueWx80 wrote:This involves a long story and I'll spare the details for now, but I need your help.
Tell me the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Berkeley, as in the school in Berkeley, CA. AFter that, if there is anything else you might want to add, please do. Thanks so much in advance!
Andy
Hippies.
And, hmmm, smart folks with a definite liberal lean. And fog. Lots of fog.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:08 pm
by GalvestonDuck
Oppenheimer, my stepdad, and fine arts.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:26 pm
by kevin
Hippies.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:33 pm
by MGC
Radical liberalism.....MGC
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:18 pm
by Dee Bee
Freedom of speech
[Also, totally not related to the university, I think of Berkeley, IL the town next to my hometown, Hillside, IL where many of my friends lived. Berkeley, IL is also home to the manufacturer of those useless blowing hand dryers in public washrooms...!
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:42 pm
by CajunMama
the 60's....hippies, drugs, flower children
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:37 pm
by Steve
Herb
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:57 pm
by PurdueWx80
Haha - this is great. Thanks soo much, guys and gals. Keep 'em comin!
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:18 pm
by MomH
Party school.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:31 pm
by The Big Dog
Hippies. Definitely hippies. But I hear it's not that way anymore.
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:09 am
by Hurricaneman
Hippies of course
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:55 am
by JTD
Don't want to be too serious here but the first thing that came to my mind was Vietnam war protests.
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:06 am
by HurryKane
PurdueWx80 wrote:Haha - this is great. Thanks soo much, guys and gals. Keep 'em comin!
So did you win the bet or what?
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:15 am
by Windsong
Patty Hurst
Windsong
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:32 am
by azskyman
For obvious reasons, I remember it as the birthplace of my initials...SDS, and the weatherman faction of that radical group.
My initials are SDS...and of course I consider myself a weatherman...but not for the same reason that they did.
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:58 am
by Pburgh
Flower Children
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:16 pm
by PurdueWx80
HurryKane wrote:PurdueWx80 wrote:Haha - this is great. Thanks soo much, guys and gals. Keep 'em comin!
So did you win the bet or what?
So far, yes. A friend of mine who went to Berkeley was furious that I didn't know Berkeley was one of the top schools in the country, as it has the most number 1 graduate programs of any school in the country (more than any Ivy League school even), among other honors. I told him I'd have no reason to know this because Berkeley has no program in meteorology and all we ever hear about the place is that a bunch of old hippies live there, in addition to everything everyone has said here. He accused me of not seeking out the truth beyond what everyone assumes about the place (oh brother), and I accused him and other Californians of thinking that the world revolves around them. Needless to say, that ticked him off so we got in a huge debate. In any case, thank you all for your backup!
Andy
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:13 pm
by HurryKane
PurdueWx80 wrote:him and other Californians of thinking that the world revolves around them.
I have lots and lots of relatives in California and I can assure you that is absolutely the case
