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Guess the job purpose

July 27th, 2018 at 1:29:27 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18756	How many did you know without looking them up. Breaker boy Doffer Night soil collector Factory lector Knocker-upper Caddy butcher These are jobs no longer done. There were others but the names were more obvious like "used teeth salesmen". You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

July 27th, 2018 at 1:55:15 PM permalink
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5098	I would be guessing at all of them. Knocker-upper sounds interesting! I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me]

July 27th, 2018 at 3:02:38 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011	Quote: rxwine How many did you know without looking them up. Breaker boy Doffer Night soil collector Factory lector Knocker-upper Caddy butcher All I know is the night soil guy had a crappy job.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

July 27th, 2018 at 4:37:55 PM permalink

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Quote: rxwine
How many did you know without looking them up.

Breaker boy
Doffer
Night soil collector
Factory lector
Knocker-upper
Caddy butcher

These are jobs no longer done. There were others but the names were more obvious like "used teeth salesmen".

Doffer is the young girl who used to work in the New England fabric mills and squat all day long to tend the spools. That is why the song commemorates the woman who hung her coat on the high peg because doffer girls could not reach the high peg.

Night Soil collector is referred to in the movies as 'Honey Bucket' Driver. The song in China that was very popular "How Gladly I Collect Night Honey' was an instrumental song, there were no words to it.