 | | Re: Job specific titles for train and rail crew —Jim Schifeling
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| | | 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 (23 years ago, 24-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Job specific titles for train and rail crew —James Powell
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| | | | | (...) Actually, I heard it from a Aussie...you just have to remember, that the word use is ~50 years out of date. How many people would name the "gay" 90's like that now? (1890's...) James P (23 years ago, 24-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Job specific titles for train and rail crew —Ross Crawford
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Job specific titles for train and rail crew —Josh Baakko
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| | | | (...) Not only grown men... Josh (23 years ago, 24-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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