But we’re not going to do that, because we don’t need to: The yuppie of 1986 and the yuppie of 2006 are so similar as to be indistinguishable. ![]() We’re expected to come up with a neologism - a clever 21st-century inversion of the word. Of course, that term, yuppie, has fallen so out of favor that we’re not even supposed to use it anymore. Hi, my name is Jeff, and I am a yuppie.We’re all yuppies now. I thought about that exchange this morning when I read this piece, The Return Of The Yuppie (originally from 2006 but making the rounds again on Facebook), written ruefully by a man who once muttered Die, yuppie scum. Everyone becomes Republican at some point when the money comes in.”* “But you didn’t succeed in making them Republicans,” I said. ![]() “When our taxes went up, we gave them less, so they’d learn.” “We also used to tie their allowances to taxes,” he told me. ![]() At a party my mother threw this weekend, I chatted with an old friend’s father, kidding him about the way he used to make his daughters cook and do the laundry for the family.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |