Appendix:Grunge speak hoax

In 1992, the  published an article reporting on the grunge subculture which was then in vogue. The article included a "lexicon of grunge speak", provided by 25-year-old Seattlite Megan Jasper. It was later revealed that all of the terms had been invented by Jasper herself to test her interviewers' gullibility; the lexicon, as it appeared in the original article, is provided below. According to Jasper, one of her terms was not published in the Times article: tuna platter, which she had defined as a "hot date".

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