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His "life assistant"
July 25, 2007 - 3:55pm
"A and B have set up this venture to support their son C. On most Saturdays in the summer you will find their tent parked on our lawn, and B and son D will be cooking up some fries. C and his life assistant Sue will be supervising and enjoying hobnobbing with the customers."
As terms for the "Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters" or "Person of an Appropriate Sex Sharing Living Quarters" I've seen "life partner," partner, mate, spouse, companion, girlfriend, significant other, lover, paramour, cohabitor, conjoint, co-vivant, "woman in my life," and even "other half," but never "life assistant." I wonder if it was supposed to be funny?
[ 25 July 2007: Message edited by: Wilf Day ]
I also noted that A and B set up the venture to "support" their son, C, so I was imagining he might need the "support" because he had special, and potentially costly, needs. I also note that C doesn't do any of the cooking, he just watches and hobnobs with the customers.
[ 25 July 2007: Message edited by: robbie_dee ]
[ 25 July 2007: Message edited by: oldgoat ]
Actually, that could be kind of interesting. Talk about a conversation stopper, though!
"Hey, long time no see! How long has it been? Have you met my paramour, Michelle?"
"Your...? Er...I...that is...hi, Michelle, um, nice to meet you."
No, but I've heard it used by others, as a joke -- "he was there with his new paramour."
dictionary. com describes comprodor as:
"An intermediary; a go-between.
A native-born agent in China and certain other Asian countries formerly employed by a foreign business to serve as a collaborator or intermediary in commercial transactions. "
oh those wacky lefties
Some joke. If a woman is promiscuous, she's a slut. If a man is promiscuous, the woman he's with still gets blamed - except she becomes a paramour.
Strange, I've always thought of the word "paramour" as referring to a woman, not a man.
Dictionary.com
hmmm. neat-o
Her paramour paramoured her with a heart that beat paramour.
Concubine, not so much. [img]wink.gif" border="0[/img]
I had the idea "doxy" was a Boswellesque word for hooker.
But here's a quote as recent as 1970:
Anyone can have a mistress, but only the emperor can have a concubine. And then there was
Empress Tzu Hsi, the concubine who rose to become ruler of China. After whom was modelled, I think, the Empress Hoshi Sato in the only really funny episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.
And that was indeed the case here. I guess I don't really know it all. [img]frown.gif" border="0[/img]