Exclusive Datehole Update: Across the U.S. this weekend, conversations between youngsters are buzzing with a new phrase, shmashmortion, a term largely attributed to the hit film Knocked Up.
Sunday morning, a pedestrian in Washington Sq. Park could overhear numerous, hushed conversations between young men and women that included the term. One female NYU student who agreed to comment anonymously said, “I had a rough night and woke up this morning in some dude’s bed. So I’m on my way now to get some Plan B so I don’t have to have a smashmortion.” She did not comment on getting an STD test.
Reached at the New York Times, “On Language” columnist William Safire said, “We have not seen such an expedient, wholesale adoption of a term like this in decades. At this pace, I’d be surprised if the term ‘abortion’ wasn’t completely erased from normal usage by the next generation.”
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