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Fluffers.
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Anybody know of a more unpleasant job than that with such a cute name? http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/exhibitions/permanent_06
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yea, sft they wish 2 [luxury]; Fluffers were indeed women, in the 1940's whose job it was to enter the London Tube tunnels at night, among the rats, and with a scraper each, clean the lines of daily gunge that blows in, including litter, human hair, snot, bogies phlegm and whatever else gets sucked in each day from all those passengers; this to prevent the trains' wheels slipping on the grease. :-]
yea,David H, let's call a spade a personalized, handheld cultivator, or whatever it was that i heard. Talk about To offer cranial inclination
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Why bother.. as Shakey said, 'a nose by any other name would still smell' - something like that :-)