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

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siravious@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 323d (2 replies)

I wonder who woke him up..

Blueshift@piefed.world · 18 pts · 322d

That was a question on QI at some point. Someone with a night shift woke up the first knocker upper as the last job before they went to bed

anyhow2503@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d

Knocker-Upper-Knocker-Upper

Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d (1 reply)

Where's the snooze button?

markz@suppo.fi · 4 pts · 322d

One well aimed brick will do the trick

simbico@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 322d (1 reply)

Soo.. did they knock up a lot of people?

drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 320d

If human history is allowed to run for long enough, I think eventually every single combination of syllables will have meant something related to sex at some point