Yuppies Through the Keyhole

Yuppies were the Young Upwardly-mobile Professionals in the 1980s and 1990s who basically used to be the hippies of the late 1960s. At some point in time, these incredibly shallow and restless folks decided to give up their pot and beads for cocaine and Rolexes.

The main purpose of being a Yuppie was to cover up your own embarrassing acts of discrimination with discriminating taste. It is suspected that many Yuppies had parents who were the freaky, pre-flower children of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. The main purpose of being a Beatnik was to wear black, listen to flute music and be inscrutable.

By the year 2000, the word Yuppie was simply replaced by the phrase “fat old fool”. The word Beatnik was, in turn, replaced by the phrase “dead fat old fool”.