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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Break-in (what is it?)
- Message-ID: <28399@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:21:37 GMT
- References: <2320@pico.qpsx.oz.au> <5122@prcrs.prc.com> <4206@unisql.UUCP>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <4206@unisql.UUCP> ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea) writes:
- >In article <5122@prcrs.prc.com> terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham) writes:
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- >>Possibly the worst thing I can think of being is young and hip.
-
- >How come everyone I know who thinks that is old and dorky?
-
- An old dork writes:
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- Young people suffering from hipness often ask this question. The
- answer is simple. Because people who are young and hip are like people
- who have just spent a fortune on a ridiculous piece of advertising
- hype only vaguley resembling a useful motorcycle: they'd lose too much
- face admitting the truth, so they club together with similar
- unfortunates and persuade each other that what has happened to them is
- really great, and everybody else just doesn't understand the cool
- subtle mystique of it.
-
- This is a very distressing condition, and the sufferers often wake up
- sweating in the night. Fortunately most people grow out of it as they
- older.
-
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