Bitter? Of course I'm bitter. The profit strategy of every freakin' business in New York is to add one little tweak to something and then quadruple the prices. A dab of truffle oil on a sandwich and suddenly it's $19. A shot of "rhubarb bitters" in a vodka tonic and it's $22. Hire a "pillow concierge" and now your hotel rooms are worth $450 a night.

Needless to say, I'm receptive to bargains, but sometimes even those seem like scams. With Groupons, you can buy a $10 voucher good for $20 worth of food -- in a restaurant where that won't buy you a celery stick. Restaurant.com has so much fine print I'd sooner eat dirt for dinner.

Still, I got excited when I heard about Antarctica bar's "Name Night," where you drink for free if you've got that day's chosen first name. And then I went to their calendar..

See if you can tell which of the following they consider actual human first names, and which are high-scoring words in Scrabble.

a. Vitaly
b. Jinx
c. Orlandia
d. Zincy
e. Ilya
f. Muzhik
g. Sanaz
h. Packwax


ANSWERS:
a. Antartica May 23; b. 18 points; c. Antartica May 10; d. 19 points; e. Antartica May 19; f. 24 points; g. Antartica May 25; h. 75 points!