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Where Have All the Preppies Gone? with Avery Trufelman

You're Wrong About

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Is There a Preppy Manual?

In 1980 a woman who was working for the Village Voice goes to this publisher because she has an idea for a joke book. She wants to publish a book of light bulb jokes like you know how many X does it take to screw in a light bulb. And they're like actually we have another idea for you. Do you want to make something called the preppy manual? It almost feels like the discourse around preppy is sort of like how early aughts like hipsters were like ha ha. We all love to laugh at them. But the only thing about hipsters is that I don't really think there have ever been any self-identified hipsters. There's always a mustache

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