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Word: jamnesia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...School ("Free Root Canal!") tend to stay up for decades. Others have half-lives around 40 minutes, like advertisements for the endless stream of speeches given by political has-beens, or the even more endless stream of a cappella jams with names that never get old--including "Jambidextrous," "Jambivalent," "Jamnesia," "Jamaica," "Jamputation," "Jamphetamines," "Jamniocentesis," "Jammonium Hydroxide" or "J&" (Jampersand, in case you didn't get it). Campus posters are something like little slices of Harvard life, not just because of the events they advertise, but also because of how they try to get our attention...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Billboards in Fantasyland | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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