Hippies, Hippies, Hippies
This is it, everybody. The one post that you have been waiting for since December 2, 2006. This is the post where you get to come up with whichever crazy idea to get our dear pothead friends in the oak grove down from their perches.
There IS one rule-the hippies can't die at the end. But, the methods that your sick, twisted mind comes up with should be a little more forceful than offering them five bucks. OK. A lot more forceful. A few of my favorites include strobe lights, pellet guns, chainsaws (for the trees, not the hippies) and all kinds of other stuff like that. But, most importantly, they should be HILARIOUS. The whole point of this post is to make everyone laugh, so just come up with something ridiculously entertaining.
The opinions expressed in a FanPost are not necessarily those of the California Golden Blogs or any of its authors. However, they are just as important as the opinions of any of the authors. And doubly so as compared to TwistNHook!
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I stand by my first thought. Place a series of trampolines below their perches. Then, BAM! hit em with bean bag guns. They won’t be hurt by the fall, because they will land gently on the trampolines. I mean who wouldn’t love to jump out of trees onto trampolines?? Who are those people?
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by TwistNHook on Jun 11, 2008 2:28 PM PDT 0 recs
Some genius over on BearInsider once suggested that we get the U$C Trojan Marching Band to play their stupid 3 fight songs at the tree-sitters over and over and over and over… I don’t know a single human being (other than Trojan fans) who wouldn’t leave the area immediately.
by HydroTech on Jun 11, 2008 2:34 PM PDT 0 recs
Now, that would be a Pyhrric Victory!
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 11, 2008 2:36 PM PDT
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the trojan band has a third fight song?!? when did this happen
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on
Jun 11, 2008 2:52 PM PDT
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Hmm...
Fight on… Conquest… am I giving them too much benefit of the doubt? Do they really only have two?
by HydroTech on
Jun 11, 2008 3:02 PM PDT
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Don’t they play All Right Now sometimes. I feel as if I’ve heard them play that.
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 13, 2008 9:00 AM PDT
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there are 4 (yikes)
Tribute to Troy, Fight on, Conquest, and I think they play All Right Now in the pregame.
PS I´m really proud of myself b/c I have 2 recommended FanPosts at the same time. Just basking in rays of overinflated ego.
by RollOnYouBears667 on
Jun 13, 2008 2:43 PM PDT
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hahah, I feel bad for rollonubears. You are dominating the Roll On You Bears-named poster battle, for sure!
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 13, 2008 2:46 PM PDT
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lol
I didn´t check to see if there was another Rollonyoubears (anything like that) before I made the screen name. At least I have the 667 at the end….
by RollOnYouBears667 on
Jun 13, 2008 2:48 PM PDT
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*sigh*
and we dont have to hold their love for the ganja against them… i always felt like that was the one thing they had going for them… mary jane certainly isnt the factor motivating these goons to live in trees-
lets put blame where blame is due: its the female hippies pit hair, it obviously gives them super powers including:
1. an unearthly sense of entitlement
2. the extreme desire to be a douchenozzle and piss people off under the guise of environmental concern
3. ability to reflect all ‘stink removing power’ which soap and water posses… this is achieved mostly through avoidance.
by Itchy25 on Jun 11, 2008 3:13 PM PDT 0 recs
Just cut down all the other trees they’re not perched on and build the facility around them. Let ‘em rot up there. Less hippies to deal with back here on earth that way.
by CalBandGreat on Jun 11, 2008 3:26 PM PDT 0 recs
Maybe we should say for every tree they try to save, we are going to cut 5 down elsewhere every day. Show them photos of all the great trees they will be blamed for being cut down.
It’s like cutting off their fingers, one at a time.
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 11, 2008 3:43 PM PDT
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Serious solution
All jokes aside, I happen to know how to get animals off of trees from real experience. This technique is non permanent can easily be used on animals, birds or almost anything you want off of trees. And I would imagine works especially well with humans.
1) Mix one part honey (or corn syrup), one part ketchup and one part used restaurant grease to 20-40 parts water. Yes, its concentrated. It has to be.
2) Spray mixture on area where animal (or hippie) is located.
How this works:
Ants are attracted to sugar or grease. In fact, so are roaches, flies, bees, mosquitoes along with about 200 other types of insects. The water from the mixture will evaporate and leave a brown sticky film over the tree and will literally attract millions of ants, insects and rodents (along with some dogs and cats). Usually takes 24 hours.
The key are the ants which will make the tree literally uninhabitable for any surface animal for about a week while leaving the tree unharmed. After it rains, the film will wash off completely.
The brilliant part about this solution is that anyone getting tortured on the tree will leave voluntarily and unharmed.
by danzig on Jun 11, 2008 5:53 PM PDT 0 recs
salmonella tomatoes?
I used to be RR at the Cal Golden Blogs
by royrules22 on Jun 11, 2008 6:22 PM PDT 0 recs
as long as it works....
no need to criticize other peoples solutions as long as they end with a satisfying thud of fat hippy asses landing on that hard, brown dirt after they fall out of the trees.
Did we ever find anyone to go to the hippy tree-saving training tomorrow at 11 in Ohlone Park?
by RollOnYouBears667 on
Jun 13, 2008 4:34 AM PDT
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I might be able to make it out now. Depends on some factors. So, it is Ohlone Park at 11, then?
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 13, 2008 7:24 AM PDT
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Are you guys for realz going to hippy training?
I expect a thorough report with pictures on this blog (unless the granny hippies get naked again). ewww.
Smelly Hippies Smell.
by CalBandGreat on
Jun 13, 2008 3:10 PM PDT
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It’s kind of up in the air. I would like to make it out. Not to be rude or anything like that. But just to ask questions and take photos. When I went to go interview the tree-sitters, I wasn’t rude or anything like that. No point in making enemies. They seem to make themselves.
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 13, 2008 3:15 PM PDT
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I thought your tree sitter post was great. I’m genuinely curious whether anyone in that group has a logical argument against the University’s plan. I’d love to hear it.
As Brent Musberger says, “three [trees] for one is a very good deal if you’re a tree-hugger!”
by CalBandGreat on
Jun 13, 2008 3:20 PM PDT
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CBKWit and I went. We’ll have a write up in a few days. Twas HI-larious!
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 14, 2008 4:38 PM PDT
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dude
write-up in a few days??? That’s a damn long time. Can we just get a paragraph or 2 as a little sneak preview? Was runningwolf there?
by RollOnYouBears667 on
Jun 14, 2008 7:09 PM PDT
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RunnieDub was not there. No idea where he was.
Here’s a sneak preview. We, at one point, role played one person as cop and another person as protestor. There was this one unimaginably hilarious dude, but I don’t want to describe him too much. I’d give it away. This guy was great.
Fewer grandmothers than originally expected. Mostly hippiefolk. Delightfully crazy hippiefolk.
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 14, 2008 7:43 PM PDT
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ive yet to see these hippies go as far as to actually fellate one of the trees. to me, that would be a true show of love.
by Itchy25 on
Jun 14, 2008 7:26 PM PDT
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Hey, what kind of hippies do you think they are? They like tot ake it slow. It’s tree-hugging, not tree-chugging!
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 14, 2008 7:43 PM PDT
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ps ot but...
interesting breakdown of neuweasels complete coaching w/l record done by a florida fan at bruinsnation. i thought he had won a lot more for some reason.
by Itchy25 on
Jun 14, 2008 8:37 PM PDT
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If you do end up going...
make sure you get pictures of the grandmas being trained to resist police offiers. I could use q laugh. Also, if Runningwolf goes, get a pic of that smug look he gets on his face when he feels like he is saving the world. Also, interview some of them and see if they know why they are there. Look forward to reading the post (I would go myself if I wasn’t en vacaciones en Argentina).
by RollOnYouBears667 on
Jun 13, 2008 4:40 PM PDT
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Also, shouldn’t their hippy asses be landing on that springy trampoline!
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 13, 2008 9:01 AM PDT
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good point
but It would be more satisfying to hear a loud thud but not have them injured. We should get the band to go by the Oak Grove and play the fight song when they finally are forced out. Like a slap in the face that they can´t feel becaues they are too stoned, but still extremely satisfying.
by RollOnYouBears667 on
Jun 13, 2008 2:47 PM PDT
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Hippies, etc
You know, I’m as annoyed as anyone about these so-called tree people and everything, but you do have to admire their tenacity and dedication to their beliefs. I mean, seriously, these people are really committed to their cause!
The best part of this is that it really does exemplify protest and civil disobedience in action. And again, regardless of what you think of them or their mis-guided cause, the fact is this is basically what the US should be about. The ability for citizens to take action without fear of retribution in order to try and affect change. It’s basically what the FSM was about, and is a great example of the highest quality of UC, where it produces people who are not content to simply be cogs and to blindly follow authority.
That being said, enough is enough. We gotta get those freaks out of the trees. My suggestion for the best way to do it is to send someone up there with a lot of soap and hot water, followed by a barber.
That would do the trick
Go Bears!
by SoCal Oski on Jun 11, 2008 8:57 PM PDT 0 recs
I’m not sure I’d necessarily equate the Free Speech Movement where the the school was literally repressing the free speech of the students on Sproul with this situation. In my opinion, there were some excesses to the Free Speech Movement, but in general the response was at least moderately related to the university’s free speech crime.
Here, the university is committing no free speech crime! In my opinion, they aren’t even committing a crime. But either way, the response is not commensurate with the university’s actions.
I mean who is the most well known person of the FSM: Mario Savio. And what is his most well known quote:
"There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
Does that sound even remotely relevant here?
My basic point is that by invoking the free speech movement here, I fear you are giving a modicum of legitimacy to these people’s actions. In my opinion, there is no modicum of legitimacy, especially given the River Nile of lies they have tried to float.
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 11, 2008 10:49 PM PDT
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well, i think the protesters have a perfect right to make their cause heard and let people know what is going on. the point of a protest is to raise awareness of an issue so that the public may take action against the alleged perpetrators, righting the wrongs of society.
however, the tree protesters had pretty much succeeded in raising awareness by about february or march 2007. the public heard them, became aware, decided that their cause was stupid, and commenced ignoring them. no one ever prevented them from being heard; heck, they’ve had articles written about them in The New Yorker and The Economist! no, their cause is not related to the FSM, but the University’s continued tolerance of their presence is a direct result of the FSM.
now if only they would pick a cause worth protesting…
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on
Jun 12, 2008 8:19 AM PDT
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I would say they reached the zenith of their “awareness raising” at about the time of the Tennessee game. Because thats when not only were they shown on national TV, but many articles and whatnot were written. Plus, many Tennessee fans probably brought stories back home to other parts of the country.
And that’s when the South learned of the tree-sitters and decided their cause was stupid.
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 13, 2008 9:14 AM PDT
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Woah ...
Twist, you misunderstood me, though I can see how you could have made the inferrence that I was equating the tree sitters with the FSM.
My point was that despite how you feel about these guys, you have to be impressed with the level of commitment they’re showing. I mean, you just can’t say that living in a tree like a bug for months doesn’t require some level of dedication. And my whole invocation of the FSM was to illustrate what Ragnarok said: it’s not about the issues, it’s about protesting and making their point, and not simply laying back and allowing the University and/or the city to do what they want.
And, in that context, Savio’s quote is actually relevant. These guys are, in fact, “[putting] their bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels” in order to make their point. The fact that their point is stupid is what is irrelevant, because there’s a level of subjectivity involved. I would venture to guess that some of these folks really and truly believe the propaganda about the trees, and are protesting out of a genuine reason.
Again, I am not even coming close to saying these folks claims and protests are legitimate. But I do admire their tenacity and respect the heritage from which it sprung.
Go Bears!
by SoCal Oski on
Jun 13, 2008 8:32 AM PDT
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Fair enough. I did not mean to mischaracterize your argument. I do agree with your basic point, I guess, that you have to respect their perserverence (some would say, brutal idiocy), even if you don’t respect any other part of the situation. Now, let’s just get em out of there!
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by TwistNHook on
Jun 13, 2008 8:55 AM PDT
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what is their response...
to the idea that Cal is gonna plant 5 trees for every tree cut down? i understand they are against the establishment and all that jazz but does this also prevent them from grasping basic math? or do they have a special love bond with THOSE trees?
by Itchy25 on
Jun 13, 2008 12:02 PM PDT
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I think they have a special bond with “those” trees after their year long tree-house hot box sessions. Plus, “those” trees are like 100 years old, diseased, and dying. “Those” trees are much more valuable to the environment in the long run than 5 saplings per old tree.
by HydroTech on
Jun 13, 2008 12:15 PM PDT
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How about giving them what they want? Go up and down the Bay Area collecting every police department’s seized weed, pile it in a big heap upwind of the trees, and light that sucker and wait.
Worst case scenario: a giant Ho-Ho is wheeled into the grove as bait after 2 hours. Could also provide a soft (albeit squishy) landing in case being baked has an adverse effect on balance.
If things get really desperate, there’s always the old “fill the paintballs with LSD” trick. To add to the effect, pay a Straw Hat Band to play “Yakety Sax” over and over once the drugs kick in. The potential for YouTube glory is infinite.
by VandyImport on Jun 12, 2008 11:55 AM PDT 0 recs
Just put some weed, a small drum, and some organic food at the base of the tree, they’ll be down in no time.
If not that, break out the fire hoses and pellet guns.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Jun 13, 2008 5:06 PM PDT 0 recs
damn...
that sounds pretty good, if that was the offer id join those squirrels! gimme my drum!
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