FYI: Origin of Mouse Potato

[Gareth Branwyn]

Er...*I* didn't assert the hippie coinage. That was part of Kevin
Kelly's post. I think someone pointed out the mistake later in the
thread.

Gareth

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 10:02 PM, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> On Thu, 1 May 2003, Gareth Branwyn wrote:
>
>> Mouse potatoes is nice. If its Alice's coinage we should use it and
>> credit
>>    her. (She apparently coined the word hippies, yes?)
>
> I think you mean "yuppie," which Kahn claims erroneously to have coined
> (her usage was in 1983, and there are several earlier citations than
> that).
>
> Fred Shapiro
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