Re: TEST: Please respond (includes Fruitopia comments)

[Gary Moore <gmoore@u.washington.edu>]

On Wed, 10 Aug 1994, Markku Kolkka wrote:

> >>>>> "Gregg" == Gregg Primm <gprimm%bcrvmpc2.RSCS@bcrvm1.bocaraton.ibm.com> writes:
>     > If this is what Gen X is supposed to be about, then I must be a
>     > very mature (or immature...) 27 year old.  Ah, well.
> 
> Generation X? Wasn't that Billy Idol's first band? Somehow I can't see
> the connection...

You're correct about Generation X being a bad Billy Idol was in.  
However, the name "Generation X" has become popular among the news media 
and marketing firms for the 20 to 30 year old crowd.  We're supposed to 
be dissatisfied, disassociated, and dis-anything from the demographic 
groups older and younger than ourselves, but we wield a lot of cash and 
credit.  Therefore--and this now is the latest news about Generation 
X--everyone is trying to figure out how to market to us.

You can further investigate the culture and the alleged-culture reading 
the alt.society.generation-x newsgroup.  It seems like there's another 
one, too, but I'm not sure, as I don't really get into spending a lot of 
time identifying with the characteristics that are supposed to define my 
generation.  

 gmoore@u.washington.edu        gary@ssc.com        surreal@eskimo.com
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