“The ‘permanent temporaries’ are liable to dismissal at any time, but are practically fixed, some having been in the service from eight to ten years.”
--Pall Mall Gazette (1892).
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A daily calendar of the world's oldest professions
About Me
- Richard Voorhees
- Voorhees' unabridged dictionary of "The World's Oldest Professions" is available on Amazon and at http://www.rgvoorhees.com. Follow him on Twitter @richvoorhees.
Blog Archive
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2009
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March
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- A Single Soldier
- Scribedom
- Mushrooming
- The first rule of Banditry
- Applauder
- On Workers
- Verse-Makers
- Great Capitalists and Humble Venturers
- Permatemps
- The Two Oldest Professions in the World
- A Tapper of Kegs
- Sir Walter Scott on Tailors
- The Imaginary Saddler
- Achilles on buying the farm
- Palmer
- Dickens on the Fragile Millers
- Erasmus on the Merchant
- Plato on the Master of Gymnastic
- To Tame a Lion
- Lexicographers
- Galley Slave
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March
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