We'll show those young whippersnappers a thing or two about vomiting in doorways! |
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See, we old fogies can be just as smart-alecky as the young whippersnappers! |
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The harsh reality that we young whippersnappers hate to face is that most people in America actually don't think like us and our friends. |
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Being young and carefree whippersnappers, we at the Reg had never given much thought to our own mortality. |
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With all this talk about young whippersnappers trying to get involved in politics, it has been largely overlooked that old coots aren't exactly in the middle of the action. |
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They survived the Depression, won a world war, put a man on the moon, and educated all of us young whippersnappers who are now trying to tell them what to do. |
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By sophomore year, the young whippersnappers have figured that out, too, which can be heartbreaking to watch, but it doesn't make them any less grateful for what Zinn taught them, or any less fond of him for having braved it. |
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What you could tell was that he really thinks there is a bunch of young whippersnappers coming up who are using all these wild and crazy natural things. |
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The biggest barrier to change is psychological: young high-flyers find it hard to manage older workers, and older curmudgeons resent being bossed about by whippersnappers. |
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How do they get senior people to take orders from young whippersnappers? |
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My colleagues are former engineers, pilots and other professionals, who run the lifts, rent skis, park cars and even shovel snow. But we have our share of whippersnappers as well, many of them in leadership positions. |
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As a counterbalance to all the preternatural prodigiousness, let us not forget that it's not only the whippersnappers who have a monopoly of creative energy, adventure, and sheer boldness. |
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