Related:

• Anti-Victim Device (AVD): A small fashion accessory worn on an otherwise conservative outfit which announces to the world that one still has a spark of individuality burning inside
  1940s retro ties and earrings (on men), feminist buttons, noserings (women), and now almost completely extinct teeny weeny rattail haircut (both sexes)....
• Bread and Circuits: The electronic era tendency to view party politics as corny - no longer relevant or meaningful or useful to modern societal issues, and in many cases dangerous.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Squires: The most common X generation subgroup and the only subgroup given to breeding.
  Squires exist almost exclusively in couples and are recognizable by their frantic attempts to recreate a semblance of Eisenhower-era plenitude in their daily lives in the face of exorbitant housing prices and two-job life-styles....
• Poverty Lurks: Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Pull-The-Plug, Slice The Pie: A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net worth of his parents.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...