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[billycw]

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Lili Berde performing her forbidden dance 'The Marihuana'



No One Puts Baby in a Corner


There have been many forbidden dances through the times. The Charleston, the lindy hop, the tango, the lambada hell even Elvis shaking his hips have been banned and termed forbidden dances at some point or another.

Even the Waltz was considered a little risque at the end of the 19th century...

But what about 'The Marihuana'?

Lili Berde performing her forbidden dance 'The Marihuana'


In 1956 Greek dancing sensation Lili Berde performed a dance so edgy, so sensual that it needed to be banned from America, the UK and many other countries around the world.

Her dance? 'The Marihuana'

TV Mirror - 1956


"So starkly realistic that sometimes it frightens"

Lili Berde performing her forbidden dance 'the Marihuana' would take drags from a rolled smoke as she started her routine. Slowly acting out the affects of the 'marihuana' as she performed her emotions under the influence in dance.

In 1956 this was so controversial that she was banned from performing the dance in New York city quickly followed by tv networks nation wide...

Following this move the BBC also chose to ban the dance making it truely 'forbidden'.

The Australian Women's Weekly - August 1958


Making the forbidden sweet like candy, Lili would go on to perform her forbidden dance in small nightclubs to big stages around the world for years.

Enthralled crowds would pack the audience for a glimpse of 'The Marihuana', the forbidden dance.

Blighty magazine with Lili Berde on the cover June 1956

 

[_tessarecting]

What a bodacious babe Lili was

 

[Hermanthegerman]

Hello billycw, it´s always an interesting pleasure to watch your founds!

 

[billycw]

What a bodacious babe Lili was

Love those classic pinups tessarecting, they really knew how to work it... Here she is working it in the 1962 film 'The Small World of Sammy Lee'

Thanks for following along, appreciated

Hello billycw, it´s always an interesting pleasure to watch your fouds!

Thank you for reading along Hermanthegerman, humbled by the crowd. Have so much more to come

 

[billycw]

"loving a haze of hasheesh for making the brain
go wrong"

-Damon Runyon

Alfred 'Damon Runyon'


Hasheesh song from the early 1900's...

Dug up this gem that was first published in the newspaper around 1908 but later in the Author's own book 'The Tents of Trouble' in 1911.

Don't believe this has ever been recorded, who's going to be first? Where's Jerry when you need him...

ROSES OF A DREAM

A woman's a scent of perfume; a snatch of a
passing song,
And loving a haze of hasheesh for making the brain
go wrong;
Dear Christ! But I loved the odor, the music spoke
Heaven to me
(Hark! That's the pound of the breakers and the roar
of the open sea!)

Somehow I'm thinking of roses but blessing
the coral bar
That sends me the song of the breakers my thinking might
wander too far;
Somehow I'm thinking of roses and dreaming and dreaming
Ah, me!
(Hark! That's the throb of the breakers and the sound
of the open sea!)

Somehow I m thinking of roses and scenting
a rose perfume;
Oh, this is the springtime yonder, and roses are coming
to bloom!
And soon it will be white summer but what can it
mean to me?
(Hark! There's the song of the breakers and the voice
of the open sea!)

Somehow I m thinking of roses and light and a
lilting song
(But loving's a haze of hasheesh for making the brain
go wrong.)
Of roses of white and crimson of dusk and a
friendly tree
(Hark! There's the sound of the breakers and the roar
of the open sea!)

Aye, a woman s a scent of perfume, the breath of a
fading rose
And music don't last forever, however
sweetly it goes;
But somehow I m thinking of roses that carry
an ancient plea
(Thank God! There's the throb of the breakers and the
roar of the open sea!)

A woman's a scent of perfume, a snatch of a
passing song
And loving a haze of hasheesh for making the brain
go wrong
Did I say that I loved the odor? Ah, well, let
the roses be
(Hark! There s the wail of the breakers and the sigh
of the open sea!)

By Damon Runyon

Goodwin's weekly; a thinking paper for thinking people, July 11, 1908

 

[billycw]

World War 1 Poster - unknown artist printed between 1914 and 1919

 

[bombadil.360]

Was Lili Berde her real name? If it was not a stage name, it is interesting ti note that Berde is Green in Spanish, the only difference is the spelling, Verde.

 

[billycw]

Was Lili Berde her real name? If it was not a stage name, it is interesting ti note that Berde is Green in Spanish, the only difference is the spelling, Verde.

Interesting Bombadil.360, would have never thought of that on my own, thank you for the angle.

Possibly just her stage name but I couldn't find a real one when I was digging trying to find video of her dance, I came up short on the vid.

 

[billycw]

"we'd prefer to look on the panty raid as a rather harmless bit of frivolity that college kids should engage in once in a while. It's a better escape from this meaningless world than marijuana and LSD. And we'd prefer to see young men express some masculine interest in the opposite sex rather than the lispy, limp-wristed swishes who write dirty words on signs and spit obscenities at cops and soldiers."

-The Independent Record from Helena, Montana
November 17, 1967

Revenge of the Nerds - Panty raid


The Great Panty Caper

What started out as more as a weak riot fueled by groups of collage males with testosterone buildup of the conservative 50's, a fraternity tradition was started to spread all over the county.

1949 at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. The lights go out at dorm rooms all over campus.

In a heist straight out of a overdone Hollywood movie, 120 guys raided the locked girls dorm, Carlson Hall.

Cutting both the phone and electrical lines to the building, a small group made their way through heating duct tunnels beneath the building. As the power was cut, they sprang into the building unlocking the doors for the awaiting horned up mob.

Overturning beds, pushing the girls into (i'm sure cold) showers and making a general mess was the goal but reports from the girls said the only thing missing was "Panties" going down in history as coining 'panty raid'.

These 50's raids would sometimes get a little out of hand like in University of Michigan 1952's raid.

The Michigan Daily, March 21, 1952

But in the late 60's, the good ol' boys of the 50's could only dream the boys would go back to aggressively chasing tail like they did.

1950's Southern California Panty Raid


The Independent Record from Helena, Montana
November 17, 1967

Panties and Other Unmentionables

Some of the young men attending Eastern Montana College in Billings staged a panty raid a few nights ago. This is probably looked upon in some quarters as a corny retrogression to the Fabulous Fifties, in contrast to the Swingin' Sixties manifested by beards, bathlessness, pot parties and protest demonstrations. One fellow editorialist mildly chided the EMC panty raid as a meaningless act in an age when young people are struggling to find meaning in a meaningless world. If we may mildly disagree with our colleague, we'd prefer to look on the panty raid as a rather harmless bit of frivolity that college kids should engage in once in a while. It's a better escape from this meaningless world than marijuana and LSD. And we'd prefer to see young men express some masculine interest in the opposite sex rather than the lispy, limp-wristed swishes who write dirty words on signs and spit obscenities at cops and soldiers.

 

[Betterhaff]

Ahhh...panty raids. The precursor to streaking, a 70's phenomenon.

http://www.history.com/topics/1970s/videos/the-streaking-phenomenon

 

[billycw]

“This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.”

-Will Rogers

Women picking oakum in the workhouse - 1906


"What was the poor made for but to work? – go to the hemp you old rascal."

With the advent of civilization, a social question arises, what to do with the poor and those unable to care for themselves?

The Poorhouse is born...

Starting in the early 16th century, the English Royals had a problem...

Shutting down churches that for long took in and cared for the poor, sick, old and stupid, a new system was needed...

The first law to set the poor to work came in 1576, in "Act for Setting the Poor on Work" which also gave them a task.

"stocks of material such as wool, hemp and flax should be provided and premises hired in which to employ the able bodied poor"

Before the invention of the Hemp break, grueling labor was needed obtaining the fiber need in hemp...

With oversized wooden sledge hammer mallets, workers would pound hemp stalks placed on slightly elevated tables or stump like pounding boards. The never ending reverberation would be enough to break a healthy bodied soul much less a already broken one...

Beating hemp in the Poorhouse - zoom in from the 1837 anti poor law poster


"A convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff, to set the poor on work."

-from the 1601 Poor Relief Act


The 1601 Poor Relief Act gave the accepted church more power in being and appointing 'overseers' to both watch over the poor workers in the workhouse, enforce the act, and to collect 'poor-rates'.

This act also multiplied the poorhouses workforce by adding children to be of able body to work inside the workhouses.

The 1601 'Poor Relief Act'


The passing of the 1834 poor law act gave more power to the poorhouses/workhouses and overseers.

"By order of the Commissioners of the New Poor Laws, the period for all paupers to work is from 4 in the morning to 10 at night. 3 hours allowed for clearing away & sweeping the workhouse yard"

Extending the poorhouse work hours the poor were expected to work more while adding grueling punishments for those that could not keep up...

"Old and young must labour here – what was the poor made for but to work? – go to the hemp you old rascal."

Anti-Poor Law poster from 1837 against the 1834 poor law act, showing the interior of a English workhouse.


"Marge: I always told you you kids would send your father to the crazy house!

Bart: No, mom, you said poor house.

Marge: I said crazy house!

Bart: Poor house.

Marge: Crazy house!

Bart: Poor house.

Marge: CRAZY HOUSE!"

-The Simpsons

 

[billycw]

“...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

-Alfred J. Pennyworth, from the Dark Knight

Arson investigator Lt. Joseph Clark sets fire to a field with marijuana mixed in, 1962, Illinois

 

[billycw]

Whats a Viper?...

Roll yourself up a nice joint...

Light that nice Joint...

Hold that nice Joint to your mouth and suck...

Hear that hissing sound?...

You're a Viper Baby!

Fats Waller



If you're a viper

Think about a reptile, five foot long
A li'l bit high, but not too strong
You'll be high - but not for long
If you're a viper…

Well now
I'm the king of everything
Got to get high before I sing
Sky is high, ever'body's high
If you're a viper…
If your throat gets dry, you know you're high
Everything is dandy
Truck on down to the candy store
Bust your conk on some peppermint candy

Now you know, your body's sent
You don' give a damn if you don' pay rent
Light that tea, let it be
If you're a viper…

By Fats Waller


Fats Waller- If You're a Viper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjUkiCffyX0

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[billycw]

c.1910 Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - Taken in Russia along the Samara-Zlatoust Railway in the Sim River valley - developed with his three-color photography process

 

[billycw]

“I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.”

-Ronald Reagan , (delusional siting about the botched 'Heath Tulane study of 1974' where researchers suffocated monkey's while testing...)

1932 ad with Reagan endorsing Kentucky Winner cigarettes and Kentucky Club pipe tobacco


Friends of Ronald Reagan needed no enemies...

1952 ad for Chesterfield cigarettes

You and Bill both...

1951 ad for cigar's

Even pimped clothing for Marlboro...

1949 Marlboro clothing ad

 

[billycw]

For all those over the pond laughing at that last one, think who set drug policy for the world through the U.N....

First use of the Two Finger Salute is said to go back to the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War in 1415.

The French would cut off the Welch Longbowmen middle and index fingers when captured due to the damage archers could bring to the battle.

In defiance battling British forces would hold up the V sign in defiance. The 'two finger salute' was born...

First captured use of the two finger salute, Workers outside Parkgate Ironworks, Rotherham, 1901

Winston Churchhill - December 1942 - oh he knew...

Johnny Cash giving the ol American middle

 

[billycw]

Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde, Book
published 1816
By Henry Pottinger


So what we have here is a book that author Henry Pottinger wrote about finding a route between India and Persia(present day Iran) between 1810-1814. Pottinger was employed and a lieutenant in the East India Company for this mission.

Title page

Page 30

1930s India - Holy Man Smoking Pipe

 

[Mrs.Babba]

I'm a viper baby!! lol

That field of cannabis is very pretty

 

[billycw]

I'm a viper baby!! lol

That field of cannabis is very pretty

Yeah Baby

I like his original with the 3 color process evident on the edges too. Might be the first color photo of cannabis, but am unsure...

Original c.1910 Photo taken by Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - Taken in Russia along the Samara-Zlatoust Railway in the Sim River valley - developed with his three-color photography process

 

[billycw]

Apatani shaman during a ritual procession