Battle-axed

[Seán Fitzpatrick]

Possibly drawn astray by the use of "battle-ax" as a epithet for domineering
nurses, a la Nurse Ratched.
Google turned up upwards of 11000 hits for "battle-ax AND nurse", but most
of the recent ones concerned an AP story on a restaurant where
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16112393/)
"The waitresses wear skimpy, cleavage-baring outfits, high heels and
thigh-high stockings". [ Nurses and professional organizations have
complained, but] "Basso [the owner] shrugs off [the] complaints, and refers
to [the complainers] as prudes, cranks and lunatics.
“'If anything, I think it glorifies nurses to be thought of as a physically
attractive and desirable individual,' Basso said. 'There’s a Faye Dunaway,
Florence Nightingale hipness to it. Nobody wants to think of themselves as
some old battle ax who changes bedpans for a living.'”
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Seán Fitzpatrick
It’s a Gnostic thing. You wouldn't understand.
http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Le May [mailto:blemay0 at MCHSI.COM]
Sent: Thursday, 18 January, 2007 14:13
Subject: Battle-axed

"battle-axed" as an adjective struck me as odd in an article on Muhammad Ali
today:

"...eventually the doctor had to summon his oldest, most battle-axed nurse."
I suppose it's intended to mean battle-hardened.  The article was from the
The Record of Hackensack, NJ.

Bill Le May

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