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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Yuppies (=gays)
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 19:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 19:00:00 1985
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>/* hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) /  6:35 pm  May  6, 1985 */

>Actually, the original  term  was  "yumpie"  from  the  acronym  for  Young
>Upwardly  Mobile  Professional.  Don't  know who coined it or who corrupted
>it.

>The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe)

The term "yuppie" is meant to convey that many of the "young, upwardly
mobile professionals" of today were the yippies (and hippies) of the
sixties.

						Mike Sykora