Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: what is a yuppie Message-ID: <2064@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 19:18:54 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.2064 Posted: Wed Nov 6 19:18:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:33:41 EST References: <1454@hound.UUCP> <2017@pyuxd.UUCP> <970@lll-crg.ARpA> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 36 Keywords: Yet Another Movement Toward Socioentropy > Hey, we need a new category for those of us too young to be hippies and too > poor (or practical) to be yuppies. > > How about nippies. For Nothing In Particulars! Anyone care to found the > Nippie movement? Great fun. We can have parties on the beach with no > drugs or gourmet food (peanut butter sandwiches a must). We can chat > about our ancient vehicles and how we fix them ourselves as well as > discuss non trendy stuff like Sherlock Holmes novels and non-brie cheese. > (Ever try gjetost?yum!) [ELAINE RICHARDS] Well, I liked your idea up to the end of the first sentence of that last paragraph. The minute you decided it was going to be a "movement", where certain types of food are a "must", etc., I saw we were going back to square one. Somehow the words of Peter Townsend come to mind. (Do I really need to show my age and repeat them; sure, never assume what's obvious to you is obvious to everyone else. Later though.) Me, I belong to the Anti-Conformist Club. We have very strict rules about what we're NOT allowed to do (to do any of these things would make us conformists!), and anyone caught doing anything promoting grooming, enhancing physical appearance is thrown out immediately! (Of course, I'm only kidding. I'm not really a member of the Anti-Conformist Club. They didn't accept me as a member. I wasn't enough like all the other members; I shave, wear contact lenses, listen to "popular" music, and do laundry. They're a very restrictive and cliquish group of non-conformists.) "Tip my hat to the new constitution, take a bow for the new revolution, Smiling free with the change all around, Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday, And I get on my knees and pray, We don't get fooled again..." --Pete Townshend (Somehow that seemed appropriate.) -- Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular consensus. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr