Fun and Games

I came across this list of old fashioned job titles and thought they were worth sharing. (I like to use this as a trivia game when presenting to student audiences.) Do you know what these people did for a living? Town husband, tinkerer, ratoner, streaker, skinker, loblolly boy, honeydipper, hello girl, bookman? A town husband was employed by the parish to collect money from fathers of illegitimate children for their upkeep. A tinkerer was a traveling repairman. A streaker prepared bodies for burial. A skinker was a tapster in an ale house. A ratoner was a rat catcher. A loblolly boy was a ship's doctor's assistant or errand boy. A honey dipper extracted raw sewage from out-houses. A hello girl was a telephone employee in the early 1900s. Finally, a bookman was a student. Doesn't this make you love your job?