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Post by confusedsince81 on Apr 17, 2007 21:18:04 GMT -5
excuse my ignorance, but im new to the festival thing and am still kind of unsure if wooks are harmless, or shouldn't be trusted or what there deal is, should i take a hint from this?
I've never been to bonnaroo either, and as far as wookies i have no idea what they are or who they are i have never heard that term before but that guy seemed pretty harmless and i don't think i would mind meeting him or another like him, I think it would be quite interesting and amusing.
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Apr 17, 2007 21:40:36 GMT -5
A lifeless idiot whose whole existence consists of following around jam bands and not showering or shaving. When they're not panhandling or trying to rip people off, they're selling veggie burritos or grilled cheese to fund their useless existence. They stand for nothing and care about nobody else. (Not to be confused with a hippie. A hippie is someone who lives a certain lifestyle due to their beliefs. Hippies often shower and have jobs.)
alot of people label any one with dreads and a beard a wookie. or a girl that dosent shave. under that definition almost all wookies are great people. i love wookies. for me wookie is a look and a life style. there are wookies that are hardcore addicts. id avoid them like id avoid any other type of druq addict. and you can tell pretty easily which ones to avoid.
I could probably benefit from a roo dicitioniary , i've only been on these boards a short while and have already come across a handful of roo slang that i can't really catch ahold of the definition
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Apr 17, 2007 22:12:31 GMT -5
dudewhersmyinforoo said:
alot of people label any one with dreads and a beard a wookie. or a girl that dosent shave. under that definition almost all wookies are great people. i love wookies. for me wookie is a look and a life style. there are wookies that are hardcore addicts. id avoid them like id avoid any other type of druq addict. and you can tell pretty easily which ones to avoid.
Yeah, to me, the formers arent wookies, just the latters. But perhaps it takes a keen eye to differentiate. Not really.
They are also the ones who will ask for a "schwill of your beer brah, just one?". They pretty much don't go see the music, are always looking for a free handout, and always use the term "good peoples" or "family" when trying to score something for free. They are the same people who would most likely be going through peoples tents and coolers. You can tell it's a wookie because they most likely can't put together a coherent sentence.
Also, alot of wookies use fake names like Scout or Merlin or Pot-Pie.
Anytime I was talking to someone at Roo and they did not give me a real name (I did not care if it was not their real name but just something that actually sounded like a name), I would get a little sketched out by them and it was time to move on.
A lot of non-wooks use the alternate name thing. I believe it started out in the counter-culture movement of the 60's where hippies would reject their given name, and take a new name, or be given a new name. In that sense it's an ancient tradition. You start a new phase of your life, become an adult, or something of that nature, you adopt a new name to symbolize your new path. The Rainbow Family still does this (everyone has a monniker that they use when at gatherings, and sometimes in Babylon [the "real" world]).
So, yeah maybe a lot of sketchy characters have a weird, fake sounding name, but not all of us are thieves or addicts (yes, I said "us").
A lot of non-wooks use the alternate name thing. I believe it started out in the counter-culture movement of the 60's where hippies would reject their given name, and take a new name, or be given a new name. In that sense it's an ancient tradition. You start a new phase of your life, become an adult, or something of that nature, you adopt a new name to symbolize your new path. The Rainbow Family still does this (everyone has a monniker that they use when at gatherings, and sometimes in Babylon [the "real" world]).
So, yeah maybe a lot of sketchy characters have a weird, fake sounding name, but not all of us are thieves or addicts (yes, I said "us").
I agree with you and sorry about the generalization. My bad.
I have just had situations in the past where I am talking to some guy who is named Hula or something, and as the conversation progresses I realize this guy is pretty damn sketchy and I should probably just walk away. Of course there is usually some sort of solicitation involved, which may or may not have been initiated by myself. Whatever that means. Not saying all people named Hula are bad people, but every once in a while you do find some "unsavory" characters.
Post by augustwest on Apr 18, 2007 10:18:32 GMT -5
Sketchiest shadiest wook I have ever met at Bonnaroo was named toaster, I don't want to get into details about what made him especially sketchy, but I will say he emulated Richard Pryor in a neighbor's tent, didn't light himself on fire, but some other stuff in the tent got torched in the process.
"That's the big thing about education. People can be book smart, but not really intelligent about anything else. A lot of times they just taking in all this information and regurgitate it. It's much more important to process it and personalize it. To apply it to your world, to your life. You have to walk the walk, or you can't really report about it honestly."
here is a perfect example of a [glow=red,2,300]w00k[/glow] from last year's roo. after claypool's set, i looked over caught this picture perfect moment...