[geeks] All this talk of music has me playing stuff from the '70s..

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:15:29PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > Admit it, you're a yuppie.  I'm a yuppie.  A good portion of this list is
> > yuppies.  We don't have to like it - but it's, unfortuantely, true.
> 
> My image of "yuppie" is somewhat in the middle of all these:
> 
> - David Spade in "P.C.U."
> - Michael J. Fox in "Family Ties"
> - Suit jacket, dress shoes, very Young Republican

Suit jackets are out.  Now it is Polo shirts and Kahki pants with deck
shoes, at least in my mind, although Doc Marten-esque shoes are rapidly
being subverted for yuppie usage also.

> - shops at the Gap, J. Crew, etc.
> - Woman who weighs 95 lbs driving a Ford Expedition to the grocery
>   store, talking on her cell phone the entire way, SLOWING DOWN to
>   go over the railroad tracks, with a "MY (SON|DAUGHTER) IS A (LOCAL SCHOOL)
>   (SOCCER|FOOTBALL|CHEERLEADING) STAR AND HONOR ROLL STUDENT" window sticker
>   or bumper sticker
> - etc

Actually has a cell phone and a PDA would be another common point for that
list.  I consider it all the more important to avoid getting a cell phone
now that I have a Palm.

BTW, today's yuppie frequently seems to be last years preppy.
 
> ("I cant be a yuppie, I've had my hand up a cow's ass...")

Eww.  That's just plain disgusting.
 
-- 
Joshua D. Boyd