30 Times Portland Was Too Portland To Function

[steve2470]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/never-change-portland#.wrAowKEDz

my favorite pic:

5. When this flaming bagpipe-playing Darth Vader Santa went for a unicycle ride, naturally.

[mgmaggiemg]

1. awesome photo

[deathrind]

2. Portland

Is an awesome place. There is so much to do.

Oregon has the two best bars in the world.

Pelican Pub at Pacific City and Imbrie Hall in Hillsboro.

[steve2470]

3. I've never been there, I'd like to, it seems like a very cool place nt

[Recursion]

6. Lincoln City has a really good one, whose name I can't remember

Which is proof positive that it's a really good bar.

[deathrind]

7. Lol, right on!

https://www.google.com/search?q=pelican+pub&biw=320&bih=460&prmd=msivn&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMwNrGvfbKAhUBymMKHcECC5sQ_AUIBSgA&dpr=2#dlnr=1&istate=lrl:iv&rlimm=6312434849402413715

[krispos42]

4. Og all the words spoken by all the English-speaking people...

Who ever existed, billions and billions of man-years worth of sentences... I think that is the first time those words were used together in one sentence.

[former9thward]

5. Portland is the city where the hipsters

voted to stop the city from adding Fluoride to the water two years ago because they thought the federal goenment wanted to poison them. No thanks.

[CentralMass]

9. It's a pretty cool city

[former9thward]

10. Yes, I grew up there.

And I have written a book about the radical movement in Portland in the late 60s an early 70s which I was part of, which is selling very well. When I go back once a year, the traffic has become a nightmare.

[CentralMass]

13. Yes. The traffic is pretty heavy. I typically take the train into

to the city or to/from the airport.

What is the title of the book ?

[former9thward]

14. Radicals in the Rose City, Portland's Revolutionaries 1960-1975.

My co-author, Bill Nygren, was the first Oregon draft resister during the Vietnam war. He went to prison for two years, Unfortunately he died just before the book was published. We were the founders of Portland State University's Students for a Democratic Society chapter.

[CentralMass]

15. Thank you. Sorry about your friend. I'll look for the book.

[Brickbat]

8. Look how crazy they are, you guys! They're SO wacky!

You can't even! So don't even try!

[starroute]

11. Hey, we don't have hippies, so we *need* Portland

Somebody has to carry the flag.

[roguevalley]

12. Portland is a great city, old and new. I love it.

it was almost named Boston.

[Blecht]

16. I will never voluntarily leave this place -- nt

[Arugula Latte]

17. Yeah, I've lived here for many years now and I can say "Portlandia" is pretty much a documentary.

[steve2470]

18. very last bump nt

[Odin2005]

19. Is it still full of anti-flouride idiots?

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Nowhere is perfect.

The flouride thing is maddening, yes. But legal pot makes up for it.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. You laugh, but it's hard enough to ride a unicyle playing the flaming bagpipes without a mask on.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. All that stuff seems perfectly normal, to me.

You want to see weird? Right here:

[Lizzie Poppet]

23. Hopefully, my home 'til I die.

Nowhere else could ever really be home...