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Re: Job specific titles for train and rail crew
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:42:07 GMT
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To my knowledge the original term 'knocker up' referred to someone, usually
an apprentice who went round very early in the morning and woke the train
crew by knocking on their windows with a stick.
Tim
In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Jim Schifeling writes:
> > > I'm gonna bet the "knocker up" is a mostly UK term as well.
> > > I think it would elicit snickers from grown men in the US
> >
> > Actually, I heard it from a Aussie.
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> I've never hear "knocker up", but the phrase "knock 'er up" has a couple of
> meanings in Aus - first to build something quickly, as in to "knock up a shed
> in the back yard". It's other meaning is related to procreation, and I won't
> spell it out here...
>
> ROSCO
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> FUT .o-t.fun
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