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McCartney's split to be tied!

He & wife can't work it out, but she's no gold-digger

BY ELLEN TUMPOSKY
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

Paul McCartney and Heather Mills
Long(ish) and winding road to divorce
LONDON - Will she still need him when he's 64? The answer is no - but Paul McCartney still insists that his money didn't buy Heather Mills' love.

The billionaire ex-Beatle and his wife admitted yesterday they can't work it out. Their split leaves Sir Paul facing the prospect of a possible $400 million divorce payoff for a four-year marriage.

And now, a few etymological lessons for Sir Paul:
From the OED

"Fucking"

Hence fucking vbl. n. Also as ppl. a. and adv., used esp. as a mere intensive.
a1568 A. SCOTT Poems iv. 55 Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thame to fucking. 1680 ROCHESTER Poems on Several Occasions (1950) 30 Through all the Town, the common Fucking Post, On whom each Whore, relieves her tingling Cunt. 1707 [see FRIGGING vbl. n.]. c1888-94 My Secret Life III. 228 This house had but eight rooms, and two mere closets to let out for fucking. Ibid. VIII. 307 She was..a magnificent bit of fucking flesh, but nothing more. 1893 FARMER & HENLEY Slang III. 80/2 Fucking..Adj., A qualification of extreme contumely. Adv. Intensitive and expletive; a more violent form of bloody. 1922 JOYCE Ulysses 580 I'll wring the neck of any bugger says a word against my fucking king. 1929 F. MANNING Middle Parts of Fortune I. ii. 23 Blown to fuckin' bits as soon as we got out of the trench, poor bugger. 1930 J. DOS PASSOS 42nd Parallel 94 It was a fucking shame it was Freddy hit you. 1938 DYLAN THOMAS Let. 31 Aug. (1966) 208 None using obscene words, none..to do with fucking. 1939 Let. 29 Sept. (1966) 240 I'll give Dent the whole fucking works. 1960 D. LESSING In Pursuit of English 12 ‘What the f--ing hell's that for?’ my father said. 1969 AUDEN City without Walls 49 I'm so bored with the whole fucking crowd of you I could scream! 1971 It 2-16 June 18/3 The Youngbloods..are so fucking good they can do spontaneous albums.

"Idiot"

1.    a. A person without learning; an ignorant, uneducated man; a simple man; a clown. Obs.
  This use is app. partly due to passages in the Vulgate or Greek N.T., esp. Acts iv. 13, 1 Cor. xiv. 16.

1377 LANGL. P. Pl. B. XVI. 170, I..ede forth as an ydiote in contre to aspye After Pieres e plowman. c1440 J. CAPGRAVE Life St. Kath. I. 288 Ryght as be twelue ydiotes, sent Austyn seyth, hee meneth the apostellis, for thei not lerned were. 1483 CAXTON Gold. Leg. 287/1 The bisshop repreuyd hym sore as unconnyng and an ydeote. 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 23 A most common kinde of speech, wherewithall euen the verie idiots were acquainted. 1647 H. MORE Poems Pref., It would be safer to ask the judgment of young lads or Countrey idiots..then those lubricous wits and overworn Philosophers. 1657 (title) The Deuine Louer, or the Sainctly Ideots Deuotions. 1698 FRYER Acc. E. India & P. 374, I..confess my self an Ideot, understanding no other Language than Turkish. 1722 J. COVEL Acc. Grk. Ch. 353 There is also this very remarkable passage in the Cardinal; Idiotæ qui vident Picturas, Ideots who see these Pictures [etc.].


Did a good 8 today with Al K. Then we brewed some beer. The 8 was fine: 7:50 pace on a gorgeous day. we're getting down to the wire.