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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: yuppies
Message-ID: <18@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 13:19:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 13:19:53 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <537@rti-sel.UUCP> wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) writes:
>In spite of your being a self-proclaimed 'polymath,' you seem to have
>missed the point of my comments on so-called 'yuppies.'

According to my dictionary "polymath" is just a $10 word for  "jack-of-all-
trades"  (which  I  think  I can justify in my case).  It has nothing to do
with omniscience, so I may indeed have missed your point.

>                                                        We have ENOUGH
>stereotypes, already. A term like 'yuppy' is very convenient: it
>provides people with yet another pigeonhole to stuff other people
>into. Mr. X makes $40K a year and wears designer clothing. We all 
>immediately know, of course, that he's a 'yuppy' and a despicable person. 

I didn't make up the term.  I was just responding to someone else's inquiry
as  to  what the term meant to me.  At no point in my response did I say or
imply that a yuppie is a "despicable  person".  I'd  have  aspiriations  to
being  one  myself,  but I'm getting a little old for it. (Maybe I can be a
"muppie", the first of a new breed (-: ).

>Why? Because we're sufficiently brainwashed as a society to believe
>EVERYTHING the mass media feeds us. As for myself, I could care less
>what Mr. Hollombe or anyone else on the net thinks of me.

I'm hardly the mass media, but I'm flattered that  you  "could  care  less"
what  I  think of you.  Actually, since I hardly know you, I don't have any
significant opinions about you.  I have noticed your postings are generally
thoughtful  and  interesting.  This  is  the  first time I can remember you
taking a general comment as a personal insult.

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