11 Strange Extinct Jobs People Used to Have

@intempestive Est-ce que vous m’autoriseriz à utiliser le rapprochement entre les deux articles pour en faire une chronique à la radio (possiblement demain matin) ?

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QI - Series K - Knees & Knockers - British Comedy Guide
▻http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/qi/episodes/11/1

- A knocker-uppers’ knocker-upper was a human alarm clock’s human alarm clock. As the industrial revolution grew “knocker-uppers” were hired to go around the town knocking on people’s bedroom windows with a pole to wake people up and get them to work. Thus the first knocker-upper needed their own knocker-upper to wake them up and keep the shifts going. One famous Limehouse knocker-upper called Mary Smith woke people up with a pea shooter, firing at the windows.

Si, et j’adore sa posture, elle en impose !