Re: Abbot Hall


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Posted by John Nichols on October 15, 2005 at 18:26:48 from 165.91.198.54 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Abbot Hall posted by Prue Eckett on October 15, 2005 at 05:54:40:

Overpaid: let me see nine month contract some chance of summer employment if lucky

Salary: exactly 15% more than the starting salary for the graduates from our program and about half what I could get outside (I know this cause I used to get twice what I get now).

Oversexed: now hang on - I understand the meaning of the word sex - but being careful to make sure that I understand the exact British - overhere meaning for sex and

using the OED - sex, verb meaning, given as follows:
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1. trans. To determine the sex of, by anatomical examination; to label as male or female.

1884 GURNEY Diurnal Birds Prey 173 The specimen is not sexed, neither is the sex noted on the drawing. 1888 A. NEWTON in Zoologist Ser. III. XII. 101 The..barbarous phrase of ‘collecting a specimen’ and then of ‘sexing’ it.
2. to sex up (slang), to give a sexual flavour to, to increase the sexual content of.
Examples of the adj. or quasi-adj. sexed-up ‘sexually aroused’ are included here for convenience.

1942 BERREY & VAN DEN BARK Amer. Thes. Slang §361/5 Make sexy, sex it up, to introduce sex into, as a story. Ibid. §361/9 Passionate; amative; lustful..(all) sexed up. 1958 Observer 24 Aug. 5/7 The business of ‘sexing up’ the titles of foreign films is..a trick well known in both France and Britain. 1959 Ibid. 11 Oct. 21/4 Reads rather like an old-time boy's book sexed up and sadistified for the 1950s. 1969 J. GARDNER Compl. State of Death vi. 97 What do you do when you get sexed up? Mortify the flesh? 1976 Nature 15 July 177/3 Erickson and Zenone tested the reaction of 35 males to two groups of females... The males..showed more aggression and less courtship towards the ‘sexed up’ females.
3. intr. To have sexual intercourse. slang.

1966 ‘G. BLACK’ You want to die, Johnny? ix. 172 The surprising thing isn't the number of teenagers who sex and dope, but rather..that there are so many that don't. 1980 J. BARNETT Palmprint i. 6 Maybe we sex together at yo' place.
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and randomly selecting a period in my life, which for Fast Fourier transform purposes has to be a multiple of 2, so say 1986 to 1984 when I was in my thirties, then the amplitude of the FFT is zero.

So I must say that your hypothesis in this case is False.

In terms of the OED definitions, my mother, my doctor and my wife as well as the guys down at the bar if they care to look can cofirm definition 1.
Ian would kill any message that dared to go into definition 2.
My current wife would kill me if I digressed into definition 3.


Of course I would never tell of that night in Holly Howe when the nice Enlgish people looked after Charlotte for the night, after all if AR could keep the secrets so can I.

So ok I enjoy being over here so to speak, but my folks came from there in the first place.

JMN





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