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- From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
- Subject: Re: short, shameful confession
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- References: <1993Jan22.154554.28302@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan22.230507.12391@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:53:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.230507.12391@sol.UVic.CA> rigler@dao.nrc.ca writes:
- >Markian Gooley writes:
- >>I bought a lava lamp last night. $12 with tax (it was shopworn and the bulb
- ...
- >>I am now officially a yuppie.
- >No, that makes you a hippie. A yuppie would have bought a Nintendo
- >or something.
- >Rigler "It is crazy as well since ever god damned newbie
- > feels that they can make a ten word story."
-
- Yuppies who have been sold on retro-60's goodies buy lava lamps.
- Yuppies who have been sold on products marketed to 13-year-olds
- buy Nintendos. Nothing done in 1993 can make you a hippie.
- A person who identifies with the original hippies (maybe), a person
- who buys things marketed using recently-sold-off rights to the
- pop music of the 60's (much more likely), but not a hippie.
-
- -T
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- And for just $19.95, we'll induct you into our non-materialist society!
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- Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org
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