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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (859)6/4/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36917
 
ROFLMAO and reminded once again of how much fun you are!

For those mystified by this exchange, it's Thorstein Veblen, best known for The Theory of the Leisure Class, which outlined the psychological bases of social and economic institutions. He coined the term "conspicuous consumption," I believe.

Len, my sweet, he died in 1929, when you were merely a gleam in your father's eye.