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  fortune index  all fortunes 
  
 |  |  | #4848 |  | Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
 -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
 Culture"
 
 |  |  |  | #4849 |  | Personality Tithe: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing
 human beings become boring: "Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I
 are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight.  Afterward we're going
 to watch the shopping channel."
 -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
 Culture"
 
 |  |  |  | #4850 |  | Jack-and-Jill Party: A Squire tradition; baby showers to which both men and
 women friends are invited as opposed to only women.  Doubled
 purchasing power of bisexual attendance brings gift values up to
 Eisenhower-era standards.
 -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
 Culture"
 
 |  |  |  | #4851 |  | Down-Nesting: The tendency of parents to move to smaller, guest-room-free
 houses after the children have moved away so as to avoid children aged
 20 to 30 who have boomeranged home.
 -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
 
 |  |  |  | #4852 |  | greenrd's law Evey post disparaging someone else's spelling or grammar, or lauding
 one's own spelling or grammar, will inevitably contain a spelling or
 grammatical error.
 -- greenrd in http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/4/16/61744/5230?pid=5#6
 
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