It somehow occurred to me that 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the hilariously-timed
The Official Preppy Handbook. I read the it over and over when I was a kid and I thought it
was funny as shit, but I had no idea until listening to a
(much) later NPR interview
with the author just how seriously some people took the book, literally using it as a
"guide" on how to live their lives. I guess in my world at the time I
couldn't fathom that people like that actually existed. Today, I just wonder how many peope who were "preppies" back in 1980 are now dead from old age?
One funny thing I have learned though the years is that one trademark of
the preppy is that much like today's hipsters, a preppy will refuse to
acknowledge that he or she is, in fact, a preppy. This list includes:
1) Preppy
2) Hipster
3) "The Man"
4) "Part of the System"
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