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Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s
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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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Question is: Who woke her for her shift?
It's pea shooters all the way down.
The Wokemen.
(but who woke the Wokemen?)
Edit: now that I think about it, they probably just used a "woke agenda".
The knocker-upper knocker-upper, I'm not joking.
Fellow QI fan?
That could well be where I heard it!
Probably! https://youtu.be/FwZBEo2JHIw?t=1913
I remember, yes that's the one.
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.
Well 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.