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HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915

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'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915

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Who knocks up the knocker-uppers?
- 768@sh.itjust.works
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  The night shift.
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    But who wake them up?
    - 768@sh.itjust.works
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      The day shift, of course. If you refer to the chicken-egg problem, it was the Anomalocaris who begun everything.
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  A knocker upper knocker upper. It’s knocker uppers the whole way down, and it always has been.

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