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- From: ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
- Subject: Re: short, shameful confession
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.202925.11079@asuvax.eas.asu.edu>
- Organization: t.b
- References: <1993Jan22.154554.28302@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan22.230507.12391@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:29:25 GMT
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- rigler@dao.nrc.ca (Michael Rigler) writes:
- > Markian Gooley writes:
- > >I bought a lava lamp last night. $12 with tax (it was shopworn and the bulb
- > >was burnt out). Cheap at half the price.
- > >
- > >I am now officially a yuppie.
- >
- > No, that makes you a hippie. A yuppie would have bought a Nintendo
- > or something.
-
- No, it makes him a yuppie.
-
- First of all, he cluelessly said it made
- him a yuppie, which makes him a yuppie. Plus,
- he exhibited the notion that buying a material
- thing makes you something which you weren't
- already before, which makes him a yuppie.
-
- A hippie would have simply said, "Wow,
- I scored a lava lamp!"
-
- --Starcap'n Ra {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
- {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
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