Does this remind you of anyone?

by Petrichor Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:00 pm

"Many women quit; others responded to advances with polite refusals. Drew tended to deflect with brusque, direct humor. She was once summoned to the office on a Saturday for what she thought was a business meeting, Havlicek said, only to find the colleague who called her in had something more intimate in mind. “I don’t know exactly what she said, but knowing Ina, it would have been something like, ‘You’re out of your mind, I’m going home,’ ” Havlicek said. “In the future, she laughed about it.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/ina-drew-jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase.html?pagewanted=3&hphttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/ina-drew-jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase.html?pagewanted=3&hp

by Jeremiah Mburuburu Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:11 pm

atcg wrote:"Many women quit; others responded to advances with polite refusals. Drew tended to deflect with brusque, direct humor. She was once summoned to the office on a Saturday for what she thought was a business meeting, Havlicek said, only to find the colleague who called her in had something more intimate in mind. “I don’t know exactly what she said, but knowing Ina, it would have been something like, ‘You’re out of your mind, I’m going home,’ ” Havlicek said. “In the future, she laughed about it.”"

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/ina-drew-jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase.html?pagewanted=3&hphttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/ina-drew-jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase.html?pagewanted=3&hp[/quote[/url]]

what does the sentence in bold text above mean?

by Petrichor Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:44 pm

Bad writing?...should have been
"After that incident, on occasions when the topic came up, she would just laugh about it"
but it is NYTimes and may be we are witnessing the birth of a well-received meaning with that twisted usage.

Candidate 1.
"In later days, she just laughed about it."

Candidate 2.
"When anyone asked, she just laughed about it."

For a slightly tangential take on Brit/US empirical usage -
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004201.html

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