Knocking up your entire neighborhood is an essential duty 🫡
But who woke the knocker uppers up on time?
They had a 24 hr rotation
So the first knocker-upper was late
The knocker-upper upper-knocker.
The article says they stayed up all night.
Candle with a tack stuck in it.
Did they walk around with their giant cocks, like she’s doing in the article image?
In the olden days, if you were really hard to knock up, you could hire a whole gang to bang on your door.
Where might I hire this gang? My door needs some serious knocking.
Why pay a knocker-upper when you could move to an industrial part of town and have a whole train wake you up? Train keeps a-rollin’
Having huge knockers and a giant cock is illegal in the USSA
I gotta go to bed early, I’m getting knocked up at 6.
So then I’m curious how the phrase “knocked up” came to mean getting pregnant.
“They wanted to get to church at a particular hour, or say their morning prayers early in the morning, because they thought that brought them closer to God.” There was often a sense of one-upmanship, she adds, in terms of who was up and at their prayers earlier than the next person.
Oh man, there’s some weird traditions in my hometown. If you were the last of the family to get up on Pentecost, my mum would call you basically a dumbass. Admittedly, I am still suspicious of this not actually being a tradition and rather just an excuse she came up with to insult us.
Another tradition is that on Easter Sunday, the local wind band would form small groups and walk through the streets to play Easter songs, starting at 5:30 in the morning.
I actually participated in that a few times and the only explanation I have for us not experiencing violence is that people still had to get dressed, while we already moved on to the next street.If you were the last of the family to get up on Pentecost, my mum would call you basically a dumbass.
I’d tell you to get orchestrate a scheme where the entire family wakes up before her and everyone gets to call her a dumbass but you guys might end up with shoes shoved up some uncomfortable places after…
How many Easter songs are there?
Is it just an all-winds rendition of “Here comes Peter Cottontail”, marching towards you at the ass crack of dawn? Because that sounds almost like something out of a horror movie.
Well, I’m from Germany, so we probably have different songs here.
We had a booklet of maybe twenty songs or so. Although, I couldn’t tell you how specifically Easter these songs were, as we usually just had the title to go off of, and I didn’t know the majority of these songs.
They were certainly old-timey songs, probably collected over the course of centuries…
“You’re up early!”
“Yeah, I got knocked up this morning.”
How many knocker uppers could a knocker upper knock up, if a knocker upper could knock up?
Did they have a propensity for sleeping with their clients? Is that where we got the saying from? lol.
Quackers were the people who were waking people up imitating duck sounds
Quakers were the guys stayed up all night playing Quake so they can wake others up.
were
I would have had an entirely different definition of this had I been left to guess.
