Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #90
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From: 	Frank Potter <fpotter@his.com>

Subject: Signal/Noise ratio

Date: 	Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:43:51 +0000



Prompted by an entry from Sonja:



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

>name of a group of protesters that became a

>media hype during the Demo Convention in Chicago

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



I am impelled to make two comments.



First, Sonja, you have it wrong - "yuppie" was a phrase coined to describe

Young Upwardly-mobile Professionals (as if anyone really cared), and



Second, the quality of the discussions here has deteriorated drastically

over time, just as the volume has increased. This used to be a place to

trade interesting and sometimes even useful information about Miatas. It

has degenerated into something considerably less, unless you are interested

in hearing half-baked pre-college-type BS about gun control, to pick just

one of an almost infinite number of irrelevancies that have shown up here

in recent months. Pick your own.



For my money, it has pretty largely become a waste of time - I look at it

now in digest form and generally don't bother to read any of what shows up.

It's too bad, because it used to be fun. But then, I guess things change,

not always for the better.



I'm still around, if any grownups want to stay in touch. But for the rest

of it, I'm outta here.



Frank (retires, grumbling audibly, into the back of the cave, rolling a

huge rock into the doorway...)