Knocking up your entire neighborhood is an essential duty 🫡

I would have had an entirely different definition of this had I been left to guess.

How many knocker uppers could a knocker upper knock up, if a knocker upper could knock up?

Did they walk around with their giant cocks, like she's doing in the article image?

Quackers were the people who were waking people up imitating duck sounds

But who woke the knocker uppers up on time?

Candle with a tack stuck in it.

were

They had a 24 hr rotation

Having huge knockers and a giant cock is illegal in the USSA

In the olden days, if you were really hard to knock up, you could hire a whole gang to bang on your door.

I continue to be baffled how people keep making this mistake. 'H' is nowhere near the letters in 'were'.

The knocker-upper upper-knocker.

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'

Where might I hire this gang? My door needs some serious knocking.

The article says they stayed up all night.

Quakers were the guys stayed up all night playing Quake so they can wake others up.

So the first knocker-upper was late

So then I’m curious how the phrase “knocked up” came to mean getting pregnant.

Wake the husband up with a knock, continue route, circle back in abit cause you know hes now gone to work?

"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.

I gotta go to bed early, I'm getting knocked up at 6.

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.

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...

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...