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Have a bet to settle and I need YOUR help!

#1 Postby PurdueWx80 » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:17 pm

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
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#2 Postby streetsoldier » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:59 pm

"Weather Faction" of the SDS...the most violent and dangerous of the "peace (?) -niks". :larrow:
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Re: Have a bet to settle and I need YOUR help!

#3 Postby HurryKane » Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:00 pm

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.
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#4 Postby GalvestonDuck » Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:08 pm

Oppenheimer, my stepdad, and fine arts.
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#5 Postby kevin » Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:26 pm

Hippies.
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#6 Postby MGC » Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:33 pm

Radical liberalism.....MGC
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#7 Postby Dee Bee » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:18 pm

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...! :eek: ]
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#8 Postby CajunMama » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:42 pm

the 60's....hippies, drugs, flower children
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#9 Postby Steve » Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:37 pm

Herb
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#10 Postby PurdueWx80 » Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:57 pm

Haha - this is great. Thanks soo much, guys and gals. Keep 'em comin! :)
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#11 Postby MomH » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:18 pm

Party school.
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#12 Postby The Big Dog » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:31 pm

Hippies. Definitely hippies. But I hear it's not that way anymore.
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#13 Postby Hurricaneman » Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:09 am

Hippies of course
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#14 Postby JTD » Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:55 am

Don't want to be too serious here but the first thing that came to my mind was Vietnam war protests.
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#15 Postby HurryKane » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:06 am

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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#16 Postby Windsong » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:15 am

Patty Hurst

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#17 Postby azskyman » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:32 am

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.
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#18 Postby Pburgh » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:58 am

Flower Children
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#19 Postby PurdueWx80 » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:16 pm

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
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#20 Postby HurryKane » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:13 pm

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 :D
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