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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"
| | | #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"
| | | #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"
| | | #4851 | | Down-Nesting:
The tendency of parents to move to smaller, guest-room-free
houses after the children have moved away so as to avoid children aged
20 to 30 who have boomeranged home.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
| | | #4852 | | greenrd's law
Evey post disparaging someone else's spelling or grammar, or lauding
one's own spelling or grammar, will inevitably contain a spelling or
grammatical error.
-- greenrd in http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/4/16/61744/5230?pid=5#6
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