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Toshers and mudlarks

7/3/2015

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I, Lynn Haman, make it my job to find the strangest jobs just to make us feel a little better about our jobs.  And we are back with the top ten strangest jobs in history.
 #4 Toshers and Mudlarks
According to Wikipedia, A tosher was someone who scavenged in the sewers, especially in London during the Victorian period. The word tosher was also used to describe the thieves who stripped valuable copper from the hulls of ships moored along the Thames.  It was a common sight in 19th Century for whole families to whip off a manhole cover and go down into the sewers, where they would find rich pickings. As most toshers would reek of the sewers, they were not popular with the neighbors. Mudlarks would search the muddy shores of the River Thames at low tide for anything that could be sold; and sometimes, when occasion arose, pilfering from river traffic.  They would have to wade through unprocessed sewage and even sometimes dead bodies in order to find little treasures to sell. In a kind of weird twist, this is now the popular hobby of some middle class Londoners who travel the banks to clean up trash.
 ~Lynn~
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    Hello... my name is Lynn, and I work at the UND Wellness Center.  I work here for four hours and then I work out.  When I work out, I am always in a hurry and trying to get done fast.  I stop and ask myself, "why"?  I mean, this is where I want to be, with all the state of the art workout equipment, free internet, great people to meet and word with, excellent transportation, with busses picking you up & dropping you off right in front of the door.  To me, this place is like a second home. 

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