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Ah, the classic liberal enclave of Berkeley. Aging hippies, still listening to Workingman's Dead on 33 rpm, railing against the capitalist system and eating all kinds of food that tastes terrible. Where would we be without them? They remind us of what college campuses used to be like, before everybody was just angling for a job with Bear Stearns. (Note: We have no idea what we're talking about.)
Anyway, three Berkeley folks have been living in a tree for six months now, protesting University administrators' plans to build a new athletic complex. A Judge has put up a restraining order prohibiting any building on the site until the matter is settled. That's all fine and good, except that a bunch of crazy SEC football fans are streaming in this weekend, and there's no way to pen them in without a fence.
t's not clear if the barrier being put up today violates a temporary restraining order issued by an Alameda County Superior Court judge barring any construction on the site pending a hearing on a permanent ban scheduled to be heard in Superior Court in Hayward, beginning Sept. 19. The court will decide three lawsuits surrounding destruction of the trees and construction of the sports complex.
We love the idea of a bunch of amped up Tennessee boosters, screaming the lyrics to "Rocky Top," looking up in the tree and seeing three bearded, starving hippies. They'll have that tree ripped down before they're into their second bottle of SoCo.
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So, if they're up in the tree, who's growing the pot for the co-op they normally live in?
Never trust a hippie.
Mississippi State finds this very pumbling.
Homer: Have a good time at your hippie club.
Lisa: You're welcome to come, too.
Homer: No, I like to save the environment my own way. (drives in circles) Mmm ... donuts
Is that Bin Laden?
I assume the UT fans will be dining at Kentucky Fried Panda?
"You can't, like, own property, man."
"I can...but that's because I'm not a penniless hippie!"
It's the blue heart that really makes that banner. Home is where the trees live. *Sniff*
"Boy, why in the hell are you stuck up in dat there tree? You got a something cornered up there? Where's yer hound?"
SoCo? No way. This is a job for George Dickel.
It will be all fun and games until bags of stored hippie poop starts raining down on orange clad yokels.
I got some stuff you should read.
$100 bucks says this guy pocket mulches.
@Mikey Goes to Bollywood: The tree sitters rotate shifts. Those not in the tree this week get food for the others and maintain the weed supply.
The fence may also keep Fulmer from eating at least two of them.
Is Ron Howard's brother up there too?
At least he is not a book burner, you Nazi cow.
@Da_Mang:
obviously you have never been to an sec game.
Just tell them the new athletic complex will include an Ultimate Frisbee field and a hacky sack area and they'll soon be down.
I really hate people like that. It is a tree. Get over it.
t's not clear if the barrier being put up today violates a temporary restraining order
I hate that bastard t. He is so dumb and clearly not qualified to rule on the law.
The dirty hippies would be well suited to recruit the Lorax. His orange plummage would at least elicit sympathy from the Tennessee faithful.
I like to think of Cal as the UCLA beta test. UCLA 0.94b, if you will....
How do you hide your money from a hippy?
Put it under the soap!
Zing!
Also, check out NoFX's "Never Trust a Hippy" album.
Someone needs to file a motion barring the construction of tree houses (pending the outcome of the hearing on the preliminary motion regarding the temporary injunction granted prior to the filing of the motion for a permanent injunction prohibiting blah blah blah...)
Yeah, I'm a lawyer.
@UkraineNotWeak: As a former Ultimate player, I resent the implication that we're all environmentalist hippies.
We just used their drugs.
Damn kids whackin off in my tool shed again.
@UkraineNotWeak: Forgot Frolf
Isn't this why God invented rifles?
@MY LEFT TIT: no beard. Looks like Subcomandate Marcos.
@Chief Wahoo: Yes say the Volunteers
I don't want to dismiss what these obviously dedicated people are spending their energy on, but there is like 14 billion more worthy causes out there.
"That's why you never get out of the tree..."
- Johnny Bark
Over/Under for the game is about 53 1/2 points and 2 1/2 wounded hippies
What about their jobs?
Oh.
@Da_Mang: "Hippie Poop" really should have been the tag for this post.
Why is such a stunt surprising at the People's Republic of Berkeley?
Maybe actual Volunteers can shoot them down with their muskets.
"Know why I have long hair? It keeps my brains from falling out. Seriously. Want proof? Just look at all them folks in Washington, D.C."
/Arlo Guthrie
Yeah, I'm a hippie, so what? Wanna make love?
I'm sure that annoying bitch Moonbeam is running around there complaining about "those persons from the Pit"
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@Stev D: Did you learn nothing from that talking cartoon bird in those irritating Arbor Day Foundation commercials?
In the words of Cartman ...
goddamn hippies!!!!
@MrRedDevil:
I saw her over by Jerry House.
I dated a girl who went to Berkeley. She lived in a commune and took seven years getting her degree. She also tried every drug possible, most of them way worse than pot. She wasn't the type who would live in a tree for six months, but I'm sure she knew a few that would.
@Chief Wahoo: +1
@Bandit Darville: I'm actually thinking something clear, that comes in a Mason Jar. The kind of jar you can fling at hippies once you've polished it off.
This will certainly be an interesting cultural clash, to say the least.
Vols fans, trust me--don't ask to see what's in the hippies' bucket.
You just know at least two of those tree sitters will be voting Republican in 30 years.
I think I am now going to have some Ben & Jerry's with my lunch today.
@UkraineNotWeak: Or tell them that Phish are getting back together and playing a reunion show at Red Rocks.
Just send Cartman in. He'll take care of them.
@Peter Cavan: Are you talking about Berkely or Boone?
@UkraineNotWeak: If you see Mersh, tell him I need a ride to the liquor store.
@MrRedDevil: Oh come on! That was way more than a hundred pounds!
Keeps my brains from falling out *of my ears.
Jokes work better when you tell 'em right.
@MrRedDevil:
A vastly under rated film.
When Cal does get around to removing the trees will Berkeley students and faculty be able to take them home?
and also add the tag "a buncha tree-huggin' hippie crap"
@Scoops: +1