atw: Re: Strange job advertisements/skills combinations

Well (lack of) goodness me, Elizabeth (Fullerton),

 From the Collins English Dictionary, Australian Edition:
doughnut or (esp. US) donut. n. 1. a small cake of sweetened dough, often=20
ring shaped or spherical with a jam or cream filling, cooked in hot fat. 2.=
=20
anything shaped like a ring, such as the reaction vessel of a thermonuclear=
=20
reactor. ~ vb. -nuts, -nutting, -nutted. 3. (tr.) Informal (of Members of=20
Parliament) to surround (a speaker) during the televising of Parliament to=
=20
give the impression that the chamber is crowded and the speaker well=
 supported.

No etymology provided but methinks it might come from the shape of a nut as=
=20
in nut and bolt.

Very much doubt that it comes from the British acronym NUT for National=20
Union of Teachers.

Dough!

Michael Granat
Write Ideas

"As you go through life, whatever be your role, keep your eye upon the=20
doughnut and not upon the hole."
(Perhaps poorly recalled theme line from the Downyflake Doughnut shop at=20
Chadstone Shopping Centre, Victoria, late 1960s or early to mid 1970s,=20
before the place turned into a thermonuclear shopping reactor.)

At 16:50 25/2/2004, you wrote:
>what does dollars to doughnuts actually mean? - i'll bet you fifty bucks =
=3D
>against fifty doughnuts? it really depends on the price of doughnuts as =3D
>to whether that's a good deal for the other person. and then there are =3D
>all the associated health issues.
>
>and how did the word doughnut actually come about? - i can get the =3D
>"dough" part, but the "nut" part?
>
>
> > I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that I'm right on this one.

Michael Granat =97 Write Ideas*

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WITHOUT PREJUDICE

E & OE

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