Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #50
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From: 	Ric Allan <ric@florence.ds.adp.com>

Subject: RE: One more yuppie comment, sorry.

Date: 	Wed, 1 Oct 1997 07:48:55 +0000



You ARE correct...  beck in the dark ages when the phrase was coined =

(much as now), attention to detail (like accounting for all the letters =

in these fictional terms) was not always 100%...   ;-))



Ric Allan

Braveheart 97M

Loveland, Ohio





-----Original Message-----

From:	David Okamoto [SMTP:davo@lsil.com]

Sent:	Tuesday, September 30, 1997 1:10 PM

To:	Multiple recipients of list

Subject:	Re: One more yuppie comment, sorry.



Hodges, Eric wrote:

>=20

> > ----------

> > From:	D.  Engelhaupt[SMTP:derekengelhaupt@rocketmail.com]

> > Sent:	Tuesday, September 30, 1997 8:17 AM

> > To:	Multiple recipients of list

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

> >

> > All Miata owners can't be Yuppies, I'm too young to be a Yuppie

> > (24)!!!

> >

> >

> But yuppie means "Young Urban Professional."  Why would being 24 be =

too

> young to be young?

>=20

> Eric Hodges

> 96M "PIZZI-5"



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 Corporation

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