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#114432 - 10/25/03 11:09 AM urbanality
moss member Registered: 10/18/01 Posts: 104	Friday's Wall Street Journal included this story: Hot Item or Old Hat? Von Dutch Caps, Once Big, Now Are Passe, Hipsters Say; But Nobody Told Consumers ... where we learn that "uber-urban hipsters" ceased to find the hats cool after the hoi polloi started to wear them: That may have been the beginning of the end for uber-urban hipsters, who started to cool toward the caps by late winter. It must be exhausting being an "uber-urban hipster" in constant dread of drowning in a sea change of fashion - the awful moment when uber-urban hip becomes uber-urbanality.
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#114433 - 10/25/03 11:47 AM Re: uber-urbanality
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	it is a bitch... _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#114434 - 10/25/03 12:37 PM Re: uber-urbanality
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654	But it is well worth the effort. We particularly enjoy the feeble attempts of hoi polloi to mock us.
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#114435 - 10/25/03 04:08 PM an ex-urban tangent
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	All seriousness aside: living as I do on the outermost fringe of popular culture, I had to google this phenomenon. Here's a picture, if anyone's interested. Looks like your basic baseball cap with a little John Deere thrown in for that good-ol'-boy appeal. Apparently the designer is a 70-year-old pop artist/Harley type. I've learned all I want to know about this now, but thanks for the read, moss. http://www.vondutch.com/store/ProductsList.aspx?CategoryID=33
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#114436 - 10/25/03 07:50 PM Re: uber-urbanality
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	ceased to find the hats cool after the hoi polloi started to wear them "the hoi poloi" is redundant, in that it contains two articles where it needs only one.
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#114437 - 10/25/03 08:14 PM Re: uber-urbanality
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654	"the hoi poloi" is redundant We über-urbane know that.
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#114438 - 10/25/03 08:18 PM Re: uber-urbanality
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	we're so on top of that... all the way downtown... _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#114439 - 10/25/03 09:47 PM Re: uber-urbanality
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	Oops. My mistake. I had forgotten that the study of Greek was required for graduation from UUU -- Uber Urbane University.
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#114440 - 10/25/03 10:04 PM Re: uber-urbanality
belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888	Is it me, or are these just trucker hats and tuques? Oh-oh, maybe I'm un-uber-cool and didn't know it.
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#114441 - 10/26/03 08:43 AM Re: uber-urbanality
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	"the hoi poloi" is redundant ...indeed, as Faldage had pointed out in an über-subtle way: We particularly enjoy the feeble attempts of hoi polloi to mock us. It's a mixed blessing, Father Steve. Now that you've reached addicthood, you're subject to the same anarchic roolz® [in this case, thou shalt not make of thy fellow AWADer chopped liver without running risk of being called on said mantling] as everyone else.
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