Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihuxf!features From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (aMAZon) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: yuppies Message-ID: <2732@ihuxf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 15:49:32 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxf.2732 Posted: Fri Nov 1 15:49:32 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:04:06 EST References: <2079@reed.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 Ann Muir Thomas writes: > "Yuppies" to me (a member of the "puppie" generation) are...hmmm... alot > of things... > Into health clubs, > gourmet food, foreign cars (BMWs, "sporty" Toyotas, Volvos...), condos, > plants, cats, VCRs, vacations in other countries, cocaine, wine coolers, , > Kate Bush, tailored clothes in conservative colors (greys, navy blue, > heather, cream...) Might it not be said that rather than the yuppies being into gourmet food, cocaine & wine coolers, that gourmet food, cocaine and wine coolers are "into" them? Random ramblings on a rainy Friday afternoon... -- aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features *open to possibilities*