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- Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:08:17 EST
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- From: ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
- Subject: Generationalism
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Rashmi" at Dec 21, 92 2:47 pm
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- > > >rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) writes:
- > > >>Generation X and Proud.
- > > >You can't be Generation X....you have a job.
- > >
- > > Generation X'ers never conform -- even with other GenX'ers.
- >
- > No more of the X tag now that _The Atlantic_ has labelled y'all Generation 13.
- >
- > -rashmi, chronologically, but not culturally, a member of said generation
-
- Except for being a bit:-) more fleshy, I look a bit like the guy on
- the Atlantic Monthly cover: the one with the beard and glasses,
- staring disapprovingly at the punk kid who looks like the last Cause
- that interested him was an attempt to advance Multiculturalism and
- Diversity by getting kosher pig's feet in the college cafeteria.
-
- I think it took me about 10 minutes to get fed up with the Atlantic
- author's smarmy, cutesy tone, and to get royally sick of being called
- a BOOMER. Jesus, how original.... How much effort did this person
- expend thinking up clever names for the generations? A lot more, I
- think, than it took me to think up that kosher pig's feet line...which
- was a hell of a lot more clever.
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