Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[RED-DOG]

And, you see, that opened the floodgates, & society began it's slide into lax standards, permissiveness, & people who did not even wear a vest under their shirt when they went to Church. Tsk.

And before we knew it, this lot arrived, & civilisation as we knew it ended.

50 years later, they're still making headlines and selling out stadiums.

[Karabiner]

I seem to have mis-spelt Osley, as it should be Owsley.

Quite an interesting chap though.

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

[Tonji]

I seem to have mis-spelt Osley, as it should be Owsley.

Quite an interesting chap though.

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

I seem to remember reading about him in a biography about Jerry Garcia. Electric Kool Acid Test & all that.

Don't suppose you've got any of the posters from that time? Worth a small fortune now.

Click to see full-size image.

[tikay]

Discovered - via Fred - another new word this morning, atribilious.


adjective 1. gloomy; morose; melancholy ; morbid. 2. irritable; bad-tempered; splenetic

Which begat yet another, splenetic.


Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability. A person regarded as irritable.


I think "Red-Dog" works just as well to describe people so minded.

 

[Karabiner]

I seem to have mis-spelt Osley, as it should be Owsley.

Quite an interesting chap though.

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

I seem to remember reading about him in a biography about Jerry Garcia. Electric Kool Acid Test & all that.

Don't suppose you've got any of the posters from that time? Worth a small fortune now.

Click to see full-size image.

Unfortunately I have no souvenirs of my time there other than memories.

There was a hippy press right at the end of Haight Street almost opposite the entrance to Golden Gate Park which put out a couple of hippy newspapers. They would let you have ten on credit which you could then sell to the many tourists who flocked to the area just to look at all of us long-haired "freaks".

I bet even those weekly rags must be worth bundles now too.

[Tal]

Discovered - via Fred - another new word this morning, atribilious.


adjective 1. gloomy; morose; melancholy ; morbid. 2. irritable; bad-tempered; splenetic

Which begat yet another, splenetic.


Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability. A person regarded as irritable.


I think "Red-Dog" works just as well to describe people so minded.

 

Two new ones for my vocab book. Thank you!

Please avoid using American dictionaries, though, Tikay. "humor" indeed...

[technolog]

So did we get an answer as to what 'Puff' was all about? Am I right to assume it was something other than drugs?

Oh and can someone move the relevant posts onto the cultural diary, where I actually intended to pose my question? 

[tikay]

So did we get an answer as to what 'Puff' was all about? Am I right to assume it was something other than drugs?

Oh and can someone move the relevant posts onto the cultural diary, where I actually intended to pose my question? 

We don't know and we don't care.....

Cultural Diary indeed. Half the time he is discussing flatulence.

More coarse than culture.

[kinboshi]

So did we get an answer as to what 'Puff' was all about? Am I right to assume it was something other than drugs?

Oh and can someone move the relevant posts onto the cultural diary, where I actually intended to pose my question? 

We don't know and we don't care.....

Cultural Diary indeed. Half the time he is discussing flatulence.

More coarse than culture.

Tom put the art in fart.

[Machka]

[tikay]

Oh my, Warren on Twitter. He must be well into his eighties.

Love the profile - 317,122 followers, and 2 Tweets!

The main man. Will deffo follow, great find thanks Aaron.

[RED-DOG]

So did we get an answer as to what 'Puff' was all about? Am I right to assume it was something other than drugs?

Oh and can someone move the relevant posts onto the cultural diary, where I actually intended to pose my question? 

We don't know and we don't care.....

Cultural Diary indeed. Half the time he is discussing flatulence.

More coarse than culture.

Tom put the art in fart.

 

[Machka]

Oh my, Warren on Twitter. He must be well into his eighties.

Love the profile - 317,122 followers, and 2 Tweets!

The main man. Will deffo follow, great find thanks Aaron.

I thought you'd like that.

I assumed from what I'd read on your diary that Warren must have written lots of books, but from what I can see he's only published his essays in book form.

If I were to read one book about Warren Buffett what should it be?

[tikay]

Oh my, Warren on Twitter. He must be well into his eighties.

Love the profile - 317,122 followers, and 2 Tweets!

The main man. Will deffo follow, great find thanks Aaron.

I thought you'd like that.

I assumed from what I'd read on your diary that Warren must have written lots of books, but from what I can see he's only published his essays in book form.

If I were to read one book about Warren Buffett what should it be?

His collected essays are unbelievably good.

His annual speech at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, usually attended by 30,000 or more, are like little pearls of wisdom. I'll find a link for you shortly. They are all collated on an Adobe document thing.

Best book about him is probably "Snowball". Will find the ISBN for you shortly, bear with me please. He fell out with the authoress of Snowball after the book was published, and they have never spoken since.

[Machka]

Oh my, Warren on Twitter. He must be well into his eighties.

Love the profile - 317,122 followers, and 2 Tweets!

The main man. Will deffo follow, great find thanks Aaron.

I thought you'd like that.

I assumed from what I'd read on your diary that Warren must have written lots of books, but from what I can see he's only published his essays in book form.

If I were to read one book about Warren Buffett what should it be?

His collected essays are unbelievably good.

His annual speech at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, usually attended by 30,000 or more, are like little pearls of wisdom. I'll find a link for you shortly. They are all collated on an Adobe document thing.

Best book about him is probably "Snowball". Will find the ISBN for you shortly, bear with me please. He fell out with the authoress of Snowball after the book was published, and they have never spoken since.

Thanks.

Found it, a 976 page behemoth of a book!  Ordering it will be the easy part, I hope it's a real page-turner.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0747591911