Reagan’s remark about the hippies is apropos:
“They act like Tarzan, they look like Jane, and they smell like Cheetah.”
The first commune was started in America by Bristish industrialist Robert Owen in 1826 in New Harmony, Indiana. The followers of Robert Owen, known as Owenites, were describe this way.
‘In 1825, such an experiment was attempted under the direction of his disciple, Abram Combe, at Orbiston near Glasgow; and in the next year Owen himself began another at New Harmony, Indiana, U.S., sold to him by George Rapp. After a trial of about two years both failed completely, due to Owen’s lack of presence to govern either of the communities.[citation needed] Neither of them was a pauper experiment; but it must be said that the members were of the most motley description, many worthy people of the highest aims being mixed with vagrants, adventurers, and crotchety, wrongheaded enthusiasts, or in the words of Owen’s son “a heterogeneous collection of radicals... honest latitudinarians, and lazy theorists, with a sprinkling of unprincipled sharpers thrown in.”’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen
No matter how much things change some things never do.
*sharper: One that deals dishonestly with others, especially a cheating gambler.
Tarzan was a pretty heroic chap, and I don’t think Cheetah smelled particularly worse than any outdoor housecat. Other than that, a clever jab.