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Subject: Re: What is a yuppie?
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 15:32:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 15:32:33 1985
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> You tell 'em, Frank.  You still see some of these people who
> insist on living in the past hanging around, all the while
> criticizing the present, and not doing a damn thing about
> providing for the future.  *They* are the really sad people these
> days.  You may see them spouting libertarian doctrine or
> discussing motorcycles at parties they weren't invited to, or you
> may see them in the graduate school classroom, up there in the
> front row of class, spouting brown-nose witticisms at the
> professor.  You'll see them a coupla years later at their
> high-tech job at the leading research lab, pulling in the
> mega-bucks.  And they *still* think they're back in 1969. Sheesh!
> Wake up. 

> Vicious Oyster

Hey, "Vicious Oyster" person, you're clearly too young to recognize
a 60's relic if he/she came right up to you and offered you a joint.
Libertarian??  Never!  Anarchist maybe.  And what's that idiocy
about grad school?  Old hippies who do go back to school (as I did)
in science or engineering have nothing to say to their profs--who tend
to be much younger, never did anything except go to school, and are
generally as conservative as they are illiterate.  Those profs who
are about our age, well, back when we boycotted class they were the
enemy--they kept going to school.  And they still can't spell.

You clearly confuse (but I understand--you youngsters are not well
educated) romanticising about the 60's and still living in them.
It's 1985, no doubt about it, although the way our country's youth has
rolled over and played dead is enough to make anyone wish it weren't.
College kids have the chance, even the sanction, to show some outrage
and raise a little hell.  That they don't any more indicates that their
hearts are as empty as their minds.

Now, about "providing for the future".  We fossils put in our time,
and some of what we built still stands.  Which is not to imply that
we've given up.  Oyster assumes we have (and one could ask, what is
*he* doing?), yet he turns up his designer nose at the essential
characteristic of our generation that his generation most sorely lacks:
We were, and the recusant among us still are, EXUBERANT!

Exuberance bothers yuppies.  It's so unkempt.  Alas, some poor hippie
(well, rich hippie now I guess) had the (gasp!) bad manners to be
exuberant in front of Mr. Oyster.  Gag me with a bong!  Alas, Arlo
Guthrie was right: "If you want to stop war and stuff you got to sing
loud!"  So stick it in your ear, guy.  (Or in your oyster.)  Or as we
hippies used to say: Up against the wall motherf----r!
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