Groundhog Day as cinenym

Fri Feb 4 14:27:02 UTC 2005

Still in use with the high-school crowd.

JL

Douglas Bigham <TlhovwI at AOL.COM> wrote:
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"Heather" was a popular (more or less) euphemism for bitch for a while (and
maybe still is). From the movie "Heathers" I always supposed.

>From IMDB: Plot Summary for Heathers (1989)

-dsb
Douglas S. Bigham
Department of Linguistics
University of Texas - Austin
http://hometown.aol.com/capn002/myhomepage/index.html

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