Faux-Jungle Line
From this Matt Gross "Frugal Traveller" piece in the 5.28 N.Y. Times about doing Paris on a budget, a term I haven't used before -- "bobo," which means bourgeois bohemian, as in ostensibly funky, soulful and tourist-free but not really. I should have popped out by now, being in the Urban Dictionary and all. Some of us are slower than others.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 29, 2008 at 3:04 AM
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Mgmax, le Corbeau
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It originally comes from David Brooks, specifically Bobos in Paradise, which is well worth reading... the first chapter of. You'll get it all from there and can skip the rest. It's a glib pop-sociology look at yuppie fashion and "keeping down with the Joneses," but there's no question that it has some validity about lifestyles today.
Posted by Mgmax, le Corbeau
at May 29, 2008 7:14 AM
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nemo
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I always thought of David Brooks's "bobos" as a modern variant of Bob Dylan's old coinage from the early 60s, the "hipoisie".
Posted by nemo
at May 29, 2008 7:36 AM
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Ortega
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Bobo also means "dummy" in Spanish, by the way.
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at May 29, 2008 7:48 AM
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