Lincoln Park Trixie

From Wiki Gonzalez

A Lincoln Park Trixie has been described as "the prototype of the blond, late-twenties woman with a ponytail who works in PR or marketing, drives a black Jetta, gets manicures and no-foam skim lattes." The location (Lincoln Park) refers to one of the more fashionable and expensive neighborhoods in Chicago.

The term was brought to the attention of BTF by Cub fans to describe the prototypical female bandwagoner Cub fan, usually denoting a woman with the aforementioned qualities who is good-looking and utterly clueless about baseball other than knowing how to say "Go Cubs!" By convention, the boyfriend of a "Trixie" is named "Chad."

An LPT's educational background is said to be a bachelor's degree from one of the large midwestern universities, typically the University of Illinois. Her PR or marketing job (located in downtown Chicago) is employed to come into contact with upwardly mobile Chads for the purposes of acquisition of a boyfriend/husband and accompanying material goods.

The term was apparently first introduced to Primer on August 5, 2002, in the Chicago Tribune: Cubs decry expansion denial thread by an anonymous Primate who rhetorically commented, "What kind of person attends Cubs games?" On June 12, 2006, the circle was completed as the Chicago Tribune linked to this very page.

There was an extremely well-done tongue-in-cheek site LPTrixie.com which purported to be a homepage for LPTs. The LPTrixie site fooled everyone in that Tribune thread for about an afternoon, even driving one Primate to look up "a number of Trixie addresses" in the Yahoo people searcher in order to identify the LPTs profiled on the site. The content from this site has long been taken down, but the Internet Archive copies remain for your enjoyment.

The Lincoln Park Trixies are the name of deJesusFreak's DMB team in the Lounge League.