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From: landauer@drivax.UUCP (Doug Landauer)
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Subject: Re: Yuppies, Guppies, Gruppies ...
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 13:51:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 13:51:48 1985
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> > No, no no. Gay yuppies are referred to as "guppies".
> >        Richard Johnson                  Apple Computer, Inc.
> 
> Which leads into yet another new classification: the GRUPPIES.
> 
> What are gruppies, you ask?  Well, if a large percentage of the yuppie
> population consists of slightly overaged ex-hippies who have discarded
> the college days hippie value system in favor of a more middle-class
> variety, then the gruppies are the ones who want both the middle-class
> life AND the old days of their misspent youth.
> 	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

In some places where there's a mix of naive Unix users and
Unix-knowledgable people, the latter are called "greppies"
by the former.