"Nigga" untrademarkable?

David Bergdahl dlbrgdhl at GMAIL.COM
Sat Mar 18 14:56:22 UTC 2006


Google "Heeb" and you get a number of items, among them the mag's website:
http://www.heebmagazine.com/

On 3/18/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I guess I was thinking of _Hebe_, the magazine for the Greek barmaid
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>   JL
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> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> At 10:36 PM -0500 3/17/06, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> > > Hebe is still around--targeted to college students mostly. Found in
> hip
> >> stores on campus.
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> >It's actually called _Heeb_: .
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> >(Is "Heeb" hipper than "Hebe"?)
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> Sure; it alludes to the reclaimed title of the campus journal for
> mentally challenged students, "Feeb".
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> L
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