"Smells Like Teen Spirit"

[Jonathan Lighter]

That would be me.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Wilson Gray
Subject: "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
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Am I perhaps the last person on the face of the earth to discover that this
famous song title puns on the name of a brand of underarm deodorant, uh,
anti-perspirant marketed to adolescents, said brand name being, "Teen
Spirit"?

-Wilson Gray

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