> ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST
>
> Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions
> to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate
> meanings for common words.
>
My wife and kids bought me a used Fender Jazz bass guitar, certainly an
upgrade from my beginner bass but cheap enough as not to be wasted on my
talent level. The previous owner was a Nirvana fan and had the band's name
displayed in stick-on capital letters on the back of the bass. Before the
sale, he or she had only removed the first letter - leaving IRVANA. Upon
seeing this during the unwrapping, I wondered aloud if the bass was previous
used in some Yiddish grunge band...
Mark "smells like teen shpilkes" W.
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