"Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")

[Garson O'Toole]

Laurence Horn wrote:
> An article "Swaying in the Breeze" in the same issue of the N.
> H. Advocate written by Dick Morrill, a practitioner of nude hiking
> (increasingly trendy in the Cascades, it would appear) refers to
> clothed individuals he encounters along the trail as "textiled
> hikers", ...

Thanks for sharing the interesting term "textiled hikers". The
following citation appears to be dated circa 1975, and it suggests
that naturists used the word "textile" in constructs referring to
clothed individuals by the 1970s or earlier:

Cite: GB Circa 1975, New Society, GB Page 181, New Society Ltd.
(Google Books snippet; Unverified; Date probes show the volume
contains a July 3, 1975 issue and a July 31, 1975 issue; the volume
might also contain later issues, e.g. 1976-1978)

And by the golf club house, two policemen pointed confidently east
when I asked where the nudists would be. But I had walked a long way
without seeing anything but "textile man" - a naturist term for the
clothed.

http://books.google.com/books?id=qxIHAQAAIAAJ&q=textile#search_anchor

Garson

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> I hadn't previously encountered this entry in the catalog that
> currently includes Chinese fire drills and Chinese landings and
> Chinese home runs, as discussed in previous threads.  An article in
> this week's New Haven Advocate, our weekly alternative paper, details
> a suit filed by Save-a-Lot grocery by assistant manager Ed Roach on
> the grounds that "under the store policy, Roach made less money [per
> hour] the more hours he put in", i.e. a lower hourly rate for each
> additional hour he worked.  Some web sites on the practice of Chinese
> overtime:
> http://www.overtime-flsa.com/what-is-chinese-overtime
> ("an employee is paid a fixed salary each workweek for hours that
> vary up and down from week to week, the employer may use an overtime
> calculation method called 'fixed salary for fluctuating workweeks'")
> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060707171900AAFIqtf
> http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/h_regular_rate_salaried_nx.html
>
> LH
>
> P.S.  An article "Swaying in the Breeze" in the same issue of the N.
> H. Advocate written by Dick Morrill, a practitioner of nude hiking
> (increasingly trendy in the Cascades, it would appear) refers to
> clothed individuals he encounters along the trail as "textiled
> hikers", which strikes me as a nice, if not particularly useful,
> retronym.  (I know, the first hikers--especially if you count our
> non-human ancestors, Neanderthals, and such--were probably as nude as
> Mr. Morrill, but still...)  Least-likely-to-succeed WOTY candidate,
> you think?
>
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