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hate the sound of mentee, hate it with a passion
Then are you suggesting that only women should golf? Womentee sounds even less euphonious.
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My half-brother has a PhD in education and his dissertation has
exactly null content. A hundred and fifty pages of absolute BS!
What school requires a dissertation to get a BS? Which half of him is your brother?
GFF, WH USD T TK TH SHRT BS T SCHL.
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The English "escapee" is related to the Italian "escapini" which means a person so small that they are able to squeeze out of confinement.
It may also be related to the French "escalope" which means a person who was going to get married by slipping out of town with the intended but changed his mind and slipped out of town alone.
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fwiw
used in technical terms of Eng. law, was orig. an adaptation of the -é of certain AF. pa. pples., which were used as ns. The existence in legal AF. of pairs of correlative words like apelour appellor, apelé appellee, seems to have led in the first place to the invention of words in -ee parallel to those agent-nouns in -or which had been adapted in legal use from AF.; and subsequently the terminations -or and -ee were freely added to Eng. vb.-stems to form ns., those in -or denoting the agent, and those in -ee the passive party, in such transactions as are the object of legislative provision. The derivatives in -ee, however, unlike the AF. participial ns. after which they were modelled, have not usually a grammatically passive sense, but denote the ‘indirect object’ of the vbs. from which they are derived. Thus vendee is the person to whom a sale is made, indorsee the person in whose favour a draft, etc. is indorsed, lessee the person to whom property is let. With still greater departure from the original function of the suffix, payee denotes the person who is entitled to be paid, whether he be actually paid or not. In a few cases the suffix has been appended, not to a verb-stem in Eng. or AF., but to a Latin ppl. stem etymologically related to an Eng. n., as in legatee, a person to whom a legacy has been bequeathed.
2. The use of this suffix in law terms has been freq. imitated in the formation of humorous (chiefly) nonce-words, as jestee, cuttee, educatee, laughee, sendee, denoting the personal object of the verbs from which they are formed.
3. In a few words, as bargee, devotee, the suffix is employed app. arbitrarily.
4. -ee also appears in the English spelling of certain ns. adopted from mod. F. ppl. ns. in -é, as debauchee, refugee.
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Father Steve, how lovely to see a post from you! And I know you won't be an escalope!
You-all--
Father Steve is getting married next Saturday, Nov. 10th!
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Jackie is correct. I am more of a "cantaloupe" than an "escalope" in that six hundred people are invited to the wedding this Saturday. We will thereafter honeymoon for a fortnight during which I will eschew the net in favour of still greater delights. Blessings on y'all.
Father Steve (the almost married)
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I am more of a "cantaloupe"... Father Steve (the almost married)'N after that, you'll be a "Honey-do"... 
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Father Steve
If you canteloupe, you may as well stay and get married.
(Think about it!)
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(Think about it!)
Ah, the dry wit of the deliberately ambiguous pronoun.
Father Steve, I trust that the wedding festivities will include a rendition of Meloncholy Baby.
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Father Steve:
Congratulations!
May your troubles be few and your blessings be more,
and nothing but happiness come in through your door.
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