Topic: You're on the bus (Read 1749 times)

sdgrizdan · « **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?

danvm · « **Reply #1 on:** April 07, 2012, 01:26:51 pm »

Anyone?

JimH · « **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.

MrC · « **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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