Kind of funny, and sort of related: We were out the other night with Steve's co-worker, Mark, and he told me that when he met Steve, he had suspicions that Steve was gay. I asked why, and Mark said it was because he kept referring to "my partner Dave." What Steve was referring to was the fact that he and Dave go to the gym together, thus making Dave Steve's workout partner. Eventually all was clarified, but I thought it was interesting (and pretty damn funny). Like that scene in American Beauty when Scott Bacula and that guy who played his lover were at the door at the evil Marine father's house and Bacula calls his lover his partner. Col. Fitz says, "Partner? Well, what kind of business are you in?" and Scott Bacula replies, "Well ... he's an anesthesiologist, and I'm a tax attorney." Brilliant.
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