[geeks] new lists? 8-)

[Ken Hansen]

THere was a great bit about BMW cars in the movie
"Finding Forrester" - about the roots of BMW, their
exploits during WW II - this was in response to a
"yuppie" (Young, Upwardly mobile Professional) telling
the local boy (colored) that "he wouldn't understand
about these kinds of cars."

Great.

Ken

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On December 13, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > While we are on the topic, what is a yuppie
> anyway?  All I know is that 
> > supposedly they drive SUVs or german cars, and buy
> Vikings.  The word 
> > materialist seems to get used a lot also.
> 
>   Well, I'm definitely a materialist, and I drive
> german cars, but I'm
> about as far from being a yuppie as one can get.
> 
>   I think the yuppie/german car tie-in comes from
> folks who drive german
> cars because of other peoples' opinions (or
> likes/dislikes), rather
> than their own.
> 
>   They seem to come from Fairfax, VA.
> 
>     -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL
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Ken
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