I prefer the definition of a guppy as someone who is in a overly good, romantic, and/or loving mood!
For the most part, guppies are fish. Guppy, the Fish: The guppy, also known as guppie is one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species in the world. It is a small member of the Poecilidae family and like all other members of the family, is live-bearing. Its most famous characteristic is its propensity for breeding.
Robert John Lechmere Guppy discovered this tiny fish in Trinidad in 1866, although the fish was known to German aquarists prior to that time.
Do you know what else guppies are? Another interpretation: It is suggested that "guppie" is a contemporary slang term referring to "gay yuppie," i.e., someone who is overly ambitious in their professional pursuits and highly conscious of maintaining an impeccable image as a slick, modern, urban man.
Cast your vote -- What do you think about guppies?
Guppies, the FISH, FAQs
The guppy (), also known as the millionfish, is one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species in the world. It is a small adaegus member of the Poecilidae family (females 4-6 centimetres long, males 2½-3½ centimetres long) and like all other members of the family, is live-bearing.
I smell something fishy -- Guppy videos
Something Fishy! Links
- Guppies, the Fish!
- Gardner McBride is the webmaster of this website that's all about guppies, the fish!
- Guppy Designer
- Guppy Designer has been on the web for six years with a recent relaunch. You'll find over 60 articles online, covering the history, care, health, breeding and advanced color cell biology of the fancy guppy.
- International Fancy Guppy Association
- Well, I'll be darned--I never knew there were show guppies! This association is "dedicated to improving the Fancy Show Guppy towards the current International Fancy Guppy Association standards and promoting those standards worldwide." Hmmm, I couldn't have said that better myself. ;-)
- World Guppy Association
- The World Guppy Association (WGA) is an association of breeders and clubs that have the aim to promote the hobby of guppy breeding in the world.
Guppy pics
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Guppies -- Fish Books
Guppies on CafePress
Guppy (disambiguation)
Guppy may refer to:
* Guppy, a popular aquarium fish
* Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy, Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy or Aero Spacelines Super Guppy, a series of extremely large wide-bodied aircraft
* Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program (GUPPY) a U.S. submarine propulsion program
* Breguet 693, a WWII French aircraft
* GUPPY (Genetic Understanding Perspective Preview sYstem), a computer program for visualizing information of sequence databases in molecular biology
Guppy Urban Definition
- One who breeds a lot. Can apply to a male that has sex a lot or a female that has a lot of offspring. Comes from the fact that male guppies have nothing but sex on their mind and female guppies have lots of children.
- A small, usually unintentional shower of spittle that jumps out of one's mouth directly from the salival ducts beneath the tongue. The ability to guppy on command can be achieved through practice, by rolling the tip of one's tongue toward the back of one's mouth.
- Young male wigga aged from 11-15, acting ghetto although he comes from the suburbs. A guppy will hang around with numerous other guppies doing nothing.
- Someone who is in a overly good, romantic, and/or loving mood.
Guppy Named People & Things
- Guppy Defined by Urban Dictionary
- Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions.
- Anthony Guppy
- From Trinidad & Tobago, the heart, soul and birth place of the steel drums, comes a musician with his own distinctive and unique style.
- NASA Super Guppy
- The Super Guppy aircraft was acquired by NASA from the European Space Agency under an International Space Station barter agreement.
- All About Guppys
- Wow! Learn something new everyday--more on the Super Guppy aircraft!
- GuppY, A databaseless CMS
- GuppY, the easy, free and databaseless web portal, will allow you to generate very easily a complete and interactive web site.
Guppie, et. al.
Buppie
Dinks
Guppie
Hippie
Puppie
Yippie
Yuffie
Yumpie
Yupmo
Yuppie
Related *uppies
- Buppie is a black urban professional.
- Dinks, dinky in the UK, are well-off couples who often have much in common with "yuppies". The label is an acronym for Dual Income, No Kids [Yet].
- Puppie is a poor urban professional. Arf Arf!!!
- Yippie is sometimes used to refer to a person with hippie values and attire but with yuppie consumer habits. However it is most often used to describe members of the Youth International Party, whom have radically different views than the average yuppie.
- Yuffie, is a young-urban-failure, or more generally a failed yuppie.
- Yumpie is a "young upwardly-mobile person". While this term is far less common, many confuse the derivation for Yuppie with that of Yumpie, and the two express broadly the same connotations anyway. Some sources (textbooks, even) state that yuppie actually stands for "young upwardly-mobile person".
- Yupmo is a crossover between a yuppie and an emo.
- Yupster is a yuppie hipster, an upper-middle class professional who participates in the hipster cultural scene.
Which do you identify with most closely?
Hippie at a glance
Category: Image - :RussianRainbowGathering 4Aug2005.jpg|thumb|Contemporary hippie at the Rainbow Gathering in Russia
The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. These people inherited the countercultural values of the Beat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness.
In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda Chicana and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom, mobile "peace convoys" of New age travellers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge. In Australia hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. In Chile, "Festival Piedra Roja" was held in 1970 (following Woodstock's success), and was the major hippie event in that country.
Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a wide audience. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms — from health food, to music festivals, to contemporary sexual mores, and even to the cyberspace revolution.
Hippie
Hippie, often spelled hippy, is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s, although the dawn of the 21st century has brought with it a neo-hippie movement, holding similar beliefs and values as the hippies of the 1960s.The word hippie was popularized by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen.
Hippie videos
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The Hippie Song
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Deluded Insane Hippie
1967 Hippie temptation TV docu...
Yippie at a glance
The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a more radically youth-oriented and countercultural offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s. It was founded in 1968."Officially founded by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in January 1968, the Youth International Party, or Yippies, were a countercultural group that briefly gained fame as a part of American activism. The group's trademark was their theatrical style; the Yippies parlayed anti-authoritative dissent and subversion into surrealism, spontaneity, mischief, and performance." -- Independent Lens [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chicago10/yippies.html] They employed theatrical gestures ? such as advancing a pig ("Pigasus the Immortal") as a candidate for President in 1968 ? to mock the social status quo.Yippies | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture | Find Articles at BNET.com They have been described as a highly theatrical, anti-authoritarian youth movement of ?symbolic politics.?Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage p.286
Since they were better known for street theatre and politically-themed pranks, many of the "old school" political left either ignored or denounced them. According to ABC News, "The group was known for street theater pranks and was once referred to as the 'Groucho Marxists'." ABC News
Yippie
Youth International Party
The Youth International Party (whose adherents were known as Yippies, a variant on "Hippies" that is also used to designate the surviving circles of activists who came out of the now-defunct YIP) was a highly theatrical political party established in the United States in 1967.An offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s, the Yippies presented a youth-oriented countercultural alternative to the strait-laced earnestness often associated with representatives of those movements.
They employed media-savvy gestures-such as advancing a pig ("Pigasus the Immortal") as candidate for President in 1968-to mock the social status quo.
Picture of Abbie Hoffman, co-founder of the Yippies.
Abbie Hoffman
Yippie videos
Yuppie at a glance
Yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") refers to a 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s.
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Young Urban Professional
Yuppie, an acronym for "Young Urban Professional," is a term coined by the advertising industry to describe a demographic of people, primarily composed of the Baby Boomer generation.Most commonly, they are highly educated and economically upwardly mobile, aged from early twenties to early- to mid-thirties. Yuppies tend to hold jobs in the professional sectors, with incomes that place them in the upper-middle economic class.
The term "Yuppie" emerged in the early 1980s. Although the original yuppies were "young," the term now applies as well to people of middle age.
Picture of Charlie Sheen; "yuppie" as the character Bud Fox in "Wall Street."
Yuppie ~ Wall Street
Yuppie videos
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So, be honest, were you a hippie or maybe a yuppie? Did you know someone who was a preppy? Do you have a suggestion for another more appropriate "term" than those discussed? Well, please take a moment to let me know.
dc64 wrote...
How do you come up with this stuff? It was entertaining, and I haven't heard many of these terms before. I don't see myself in any of the catagories.
Posted July 10, 2009
alteredkat wrote...
Getting back to the fish part of this lens ;o) ...the kids are getting a couple guppies to add to their new tank...to go with the Mollys we currently have :o)
ah the kids...yes, 2 kids now...but I do remember when we were "dinks" ;o)
Posted July 04, 2009
aj2008 wrote...
I was definitely a hippie (and I had the Afghan coat bought from Carnaby Street to prove it!) , not a guppie and definitely not a yuppie
Posted June 11, 2009
AndyPo wrote...
I used to be a DINKY (Dual Income, No Kids Yet) but now I'm probably a BOBO (Burnt Out, But Opulent ;-)
Posted May 25, 2009
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