"Nigga" untrademarkable?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I guess I was thinking of _Hebe_, the magazine for the Greek barmaid community.

  JL

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.
>
>It's actually called _Heeb_: .
>
>(Is "Heeb" hipper than "Hebe"?)

Sure; it alludes to the reclaimed title of the campus journal for
mentally challenged students, "Feeb".

L

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