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An aging yuppie?
A smug, wealthy publisher named Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte) joins a group of his bored aging yuppie friends to see who can bring the biggest fool to dinner.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an aging yuppie in possession of an enviable life must be in want of some corrective humiliation.
Hearing some aging yuppie from southern Ontario come in trying to articulate a stock tourist phrase like, "How's she getting on, me old cock," or whatever else they charge you to recite at a Screech-in on George Street is like nails on a chalkboard.
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In fact, for all its cliched image, California is an increasingly reliable proxy for the nation as a whole, with high-tech industry and giant farming operations, international trade and small start-up businesses, a shrinking white majority and an ideological spectrum that runs from gun-owning ranchers to yuppie entrepreneurs and aging liberals who came for the 60's revolution and never went home.
He put on early plays by Aaron Sorkin and Alan Ball, as well as his own surreal one-act comedies, which excoriated the dawning age of the yuppie.
It was only later, once Japanese businesses had truly popularised the technology in the 1970s and 1980s that fax became the business tool of the yuppie age.
But she represented the post-yuppie age as well as anybody - daughter of teachers (her father became head), a self-starter who had gone from the local comp to Oxford, an Aston Villa fan who holidayed in caravans, she had risen up the parliamentary pole with such little fuss.
It's the yuppie buffer".
A yuppie or a dinky?
"Every yuppie wants Wall Street".
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