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Posted at 11:46h in Marketing[1] by Sarah Turner[2] Yuppies. Who can forget them? As synonymous with the 80s as mobile phones the size of bricks; gloopy hair gel; and Gordon ‘lunch is for wimps’ Gekko. Yuppies was an acronym (sort of) for Young Urban Professional. Those upper-middle class, upwardly mobile twenty-to thirty-somethings that barked into their phones, carried a Filofax and...

“The whole feel of it is, you know, to let people know that scuppies are not prepared to chain themselves to redwood trees. That’s not what a scuppie’s going to do. You’re not going to find a scuppie out on the high seas buzzing down an oil tanker in a Zodiac inflatable boat. That’s not going to happen.” So let’s...

Remember “Yumpie?” – Young Upwardly Mobile Professional? It was the short-lived precursor to “Yuppie” – Young Urban Professional, the dreaded “Y” word that became a symbol of the ’80s’ “Greed is Good” generation. I first heard “Yumpie” in the early ’80s from the lips of a Ford Motor Co. executive who was in town as part of a national sortie...

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