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| #4841 | | Black Dens:
Where Black Holes live; often unheated warehouses with Day-Glo
spray painting, mutilated mannequins, Elvis references, dozens of
overflowing ashtrays, mirror sculptures, and Velvet Underground music
playing in background.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4842 | | Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4843 | | Squires:
The most common X generation subgroup and the only subgroup
given to breeding. Squires exist almost exclusively in couples and
are recognizable by their frantic attempts to create a semblance of
Eisenhower-era plenitude in their daily lives in the face of
exorbitant housing prices and two-job life-styles. Squires tend to be
continually exhausted from their voraciously acquisitive pursuit of
furniture and knickknacks.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4844 | | Poverty Lurks:
Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era
parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4845 | | Pull-the-Plug, Slice the Pie:
A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the
net worth of his parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4846 | | Underdogging:
The tendency to almost invariably side with the underdog in a
given situation. The consumer expression of this trait is the
purchasing of less successful, "sad," or failing products: "I know
these Vienna franks are heart failure on a stick, but they were so sad
looking up against all the other yuppie food items that I just had to
buy them."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4847 | | 2 + 2 = 5-ism:
Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself after
holding out for a long period of time. "Oh, all right, I'll buy your
stupid cola. Now leave me alone."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4848 | | Option Paralysis:
The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4849 | | Personality Tithe:
A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing
human beings become boring: "Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I
are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going
to watch the shopping channel."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4850 | | Jack-and-Jill Party:
A Squire tradition; baby showers to which both men and
women friends are invited as opposed to only women. Doubled
purchasing power of bisexual attendance brings gift values up to
Eisenhower-era standards.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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