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• Historical Underdosing: To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen.
  Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts....
• Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as dine
  mokestack industrial sites, rural villages - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns "back to the present....
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Homeowner Envy: Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Native Aping: Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Dumpster Clocking: The tendency when looking at objects to guesstimate the amount of time they will take to eventually decompose
  Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova....
• 2+2=5-ism: Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself after holding out for a long period of time.
  Oh, all right, I'll buy your stupid cola. Now leave me alone." -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...