Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s
Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s
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Question is: Who woke her for her shift?
37 0 ReplyIt's pea shooters all the way down.
40 0 ReplyThe Wokemen.
(but who woke the Wokemen?)
Edit: now that I think about it, they probably just used a "woke agenda".
15 0 ReplyThe knocker-upper knocker-upper, I'm not joking.
13 0 ReplyFellow QI fan?
2 0 ReplyThat could well be where I heard it!
3 0 ReplyProbably! https://youtu.be/FwZBEo2JHIw?t=1913
2 0 ReplyI remember, yes that's the one.
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As per this article:
"The knocker uppers were night owls and slept during the day instead, waking at about four in the afternoon," says author Richard Jones.
12 0 ReplyWell its obvious she just stays up all night. She doesn't need sleep. In fact sleep is deathly scared of her and has been for a while.
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