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The Worst Jobs In History
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Posted on 04/06/2005 7:12:20 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
Suicide bomber?
Kamakaze?
Hillary's husband?
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:18:45 PM PDT
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
To: Heartlander
I was beginning to wonder if they'd mention the tanner, but obviously they saved the worst for last.
I wonder about people who name their sons Tanner...
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:26:09 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(When in doubt, err on the side of life.)
To: Heartlander
The Worst Jobs In HistoryI knew a guy who worked at the "Lusty Lady" in Seattle. This was a strip club of sorts where the viewer enters one of several private booths, feeds quarters into a slot which opens a partition and allows the viewing of live, naked dancing ladies on a stage behind a glass window.
His job? Well, let's just say he would enter the vacated booths wearing latex gloves and brandishing a mop.
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:31:45 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
In the movie Clerks, that guy was referred to as a Jizz-Mopper. And I believe they used paper towels and Windex.
To: Andy from Beaverton
Indeed I did . . .
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:35:03 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
To: Heartlander
I got a job one summer while in college steam cleaning garbage trucks. I would put on a hazmat suit, climb inside one of these in the Texas heat and go to work with the steamer. At times I would be standing ankle deep in the putrid stinking water you have ever seen.
Several of us started working the same day. By the end of summer only two of the original summer hires were left. The rest had been tirned completely over twice. Many did not last the day.
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:38:37 PM PDT
by
speed_addiction
(Ninja's last words, "Hey guys. Watch me just flip out on that big dude over there!")
To: Heartlander
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:41:51 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Stop the Immoral Illegal Invasion - Secure the Borders)
To: Heartlander
Telling Ted Kennedy the bar is closed?
Enema tube tester?
Dan Rather's factchecker?
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:41:54 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
To: Andy from Beaverton
Mop boy at the peep show.
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:46:30 PM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
To: Heartlander
If you follow the "Medieval" link, they mention "surgeon/barber" but Theodoric Barber of York is not specifically referenced. "Now, now. Who's the barber here?"
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:47:03 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Heartlander
To: Heartlander
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:54:03 PM PDT
by
solitas
(So what if I support a platform that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.3.7)
To: solitas
MBNA
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posted on
04/06/2005 7:56:20 PM PDT
by
maineman
To: speed_addiction
I used to work in a power generating plant, coal-fired. It wasn't bad 95% of the time. But to clean the boilers out when they are offline usually involved huge heavy denim monkey suits with face masks. It involved climbing into small holes barely as big as the distance from the inside of my elbow to my wrist. Very tight fit. Dragging an air hose with a three foot nozzle on the end. Oh, and a drop light, because it's completely pitch black.
Once inside, one tried not to get stuck, break the light, and run the nozzle between the water pipes to blow slag off that gets stuck on them. OH, did I mention the huge induced draft fans are on? To suck the debris out, of course, but there ya are in a wind tunnel, I'm guessing 40 mph air roaring through. This would break the light occasionally, as it floated around in there. The only communication with coworkers was tugging on the airhose.
This takes about an hour or so. Then one tries to wriggle back out, backwards. Then you roll over, and go back in to do the other side.
This took all morning. That took care of one access hole. There are several. Per boiler. It's a good thing I wasn't claustrophobic.
Washing soot out of your hair took four or five shampoo/lather/rinse cycles.
But I understand why so many of the maintenance people went out of their way to put on weight. They'd get too fat to fit.
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posted on
04/06/2005 8:07:00 PM PDT
by
Big Giant Head
(Barring all differences, they're identical.)
To: Heartlander
Oh, I dunno - ever buy a rectal thermometer? The one wrapped in the little piece of paper that gives you directions (how many polite ways are there to say "stick this up yer butt"?) that end with "each unit individually tested."?
Yep. That was me.
To: Heartlander
You are strapped into a seat that is hung from the end of a free-moving arm. At the whim of the operators, you are then dunked into a river or pond once or twice or all day, in front of yet another jeering crowd.Is Senator Kennedy aware of this vocation?
To: speed_addiction
You may have me beat. My worst jobs: 1) picking up cigarette butts in a huge parking lot in the hot North Carolina summer sun. For breaks, I got to clean out garbage receptacles. 2) Working as a dishwasher in a very hot, very humid and sometimes very smelly North Carolina restaurant. I never knew how much fungus and how many rashes one could get in the nether regions until I had that job. I also learned that after you cut Jalapeno peppers you must wash your hands before your go to the restroom. I was in so much pain, my eyes bled.
3) Having my clients found "not guilty" even though I believe that they committed the crimes (some heinous like forcible rape with a minor victim) I just had to keep telling myself that the United States Constitution provides for the right to an attorney.
To: Big Giant Head
To: Heartlander
These guys pushing stone blocks to build the pyramids, now thats kind of a crummy job.
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posted on
04/06/2005 10:00:53 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
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