longtime professor

[RonButters]

What could "longtime professor" possibly mean except 'professor-for-a-long-time' "? Where is the question?
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From: Laurence Horn
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At 12:57 PM -0400 6/6/10, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>Maybe my radar for odd expressions is off, but it certainly went off on
>this one:
>
>http://bit.ly/cs0tpB
>>On the Democratic side, attorney Billy Coyle and longtime professor
>>Tom Guild have announced their intentions to run.
>
>So what is a "longtime professor" in this context?
>
Maybe it's a euphemism, like "longtime companion" used to be (in
those death notices).  For what, I'm not sure.

LH

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