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Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s (lemmy.world)
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[–] yenahmik@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Question is: Who woke her for her shift?

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

The knocker-upper knocker-upper, I'm not joking.

[–] gatelike@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

I like to think that she shot peas all the time while walking and sitting at home. Obviously she would never miss and is particularly good at ricochet combos.