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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

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Posted by on April 18 at 10:56 AM

NOFX has a new album out. I love the cover art but I think they meant the title to refer to a member of the crunchy counterculture, rather than someone with an extra-curvy bottom half.
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Sometimes spellcheck isn’t enough.


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Hippies stink of BO and rotting granola crumbs. Capitol Hill rid itself of six of these rodents a couple weeks back.


Thanks for promoting hippy hating music. The Stranger has been a home for haters for years, providing a service for the whole Seattle community.

HH, what have you against voluptuous people?

I suspect you really hate hippies, but lack the common sense to see the difference between hippy and hippie.

Here's a clue, it's almost as clear as the difference between it's and its.

Hahahahahha.
Awesome.

American Heritage and every other dictionary I'm aware of that contains this word at all accepts "hippy".

Now that you mention it, the meaning "well endowed in the hips" doesn't appear to be formally accepted anywhere at all.

WTF are you talking about? 'Hippy' IS the proper spelling of the word.

Congratulations on your superior spelling ability.

Dictionary.com accepts "hippy" as an alternate spelling of "hippie."

You effing 'tards. NOFX obviously meant to comment on the general unreliability of the so-named nautical sensors:

Hippy -- A heave–pitch–roll sensor consisting of vertical acceleration and tilt sensors, used to measure the height and directionality of ocean surface gravity waves.

more ted kennedy on the jews harp

That album cover and rant against hippies is so 1981. Been there done that.

You definition of hippy was lacking from urban dictionary. But I just submitted a good definition to them for it.

Re the cover art: We are not amused. Me & the Methodust Muj will be right over to burn your long hard slog down.

hip turned into an adjective is "hippy"-just as curve turned into an adjective is "curvy".

hippy used as hippie is an error that is being pulled into common usage by stupid fucks who have never used a dictionary.

according to my oxford dictionary, hippy is either "having large hips" or "variant spelling of hippie".

i guess that's NOFX stickin' it to the man by using the variant spelling rather than the correct one.

Thank you, seattle98104. You and I and the OED agree, and that's enough of a consensus for me to sleep well tonight.

So is the guy on the cover supposed to be the original hippy, Mr. Jesus Christ?

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