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sdgrizdan

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You're on the bus
« on: March 01, 2012, 02:01:05 pm »

Just curious, what is the orgin/meaning/inside joke of the tagline "You're on the bus" when you open Gizmo?  :P
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Re: You're on the bus
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2012, 01:26:51 pm »

Anyone?
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Re: You're on the bus
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2012, 01:38:33 pm »

You had to be there, I guess.

"You're on the bus.  Or you're not."   Ken Kesey said it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey

There is a great book about him, called Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test

It summed up California in the sixties.

The phrase meant that either you're fully engaged.  Or you aren't.  I think it has more than a little Zen attitude in it.
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Re: You're on the bus
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2012, 01:56:04 pm »

Visuals:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further_%28bus%29

Today's youth are decisively more dismissive, if yet less eloquent: "Meh."
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