Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #118
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From: 	"Hodges, Eric" <Eric.Hodges@tckmail.TeleCheck.com>

Subject: RE: One more yuppie comment, sorry. (NMC!)

Date: 	Wed, 1 Oct 1997 12:32:01 +0000







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> From: 	Sonja62786@aol.com[SMTP:Sonja62786@aol.com]

> Sent: 	Tuesday, September 30, 1997 3:09 PM

> To: 	Multiple recipients of list

> Subject: 	Re: One more yuppie comment, sorry.

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> In a message dated 97-09-30 17:12:10 EDT, davo@lsil.com writes:

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> << I had thought that Yuppie was "young upwardly mobile =

professional",

> but

>  I guess that would then be "Yumpie".  I stand corrected.

>  --=20

>  Dave Okamoto

>  LSI Logic Corp >>

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> Do not yet stand Dave..... You are correct.

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> "Upwardly mobile" was the original definition,

> and was meant to be more than slightly ironic

> in its use of a trendy neologism reflecting the

> jargon of a brave new marketplace.

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This is from Merriam Webster's net dictionary:



Main Entry: yup=B7pie

Pronunciation: 'y&-pE

Function: noun

Usage: often capitalized

Etymology: probably from young urban professional + -ie

Date: 1983

: a young college-educated adult who is employed in a well-paying

profession and who lives and works in or near alarge city=20





> "Yuppie" was derived for the word "Yippie", the

> name of a group of protesters that became a=20

> media hype during the Demo Convention in Chicago

> in 1948 ... viz. "weathermen" "Chicago 7" etc...

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Yippie was any member of the Youth International Party.



Eric Hodges

96M "PIZZI-5"