Fw: hippie trivia question

[Sally Donlon]

D'oh! I always thought we were saying "buddha bag."

sally donlon



FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:

> By the late 70s it was still a bota bag, altho 'flask' works for me as well. I had never seen this in print until a few months ago and was surprised that it was boTa rather than boDa. I had long since forgotten the word.
> Fritz Juengling
> >>> maberry at U.WASHINGTON.EDU 03/11/04 05:45AM >>>
> Same in Oregon, in the early 1970s. I don't recall any other name for them.
>
> allen
> maberry at u.washington.edu
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Russ McClay wrote:
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> > PS => Please let me know if your memory from that era has fared better than =
> > PS => mine.  If not, well, peace and love to you anyway.
> >
> > 30 years ago we called them 'bota bags'.
> >
> > "Don't forget to bring your bota bag."
> >
> > Southern California - 70's.
> >
> > Russ
> >