You’d have had the knocker uppers Union up in arms with that disgraceful plan. What if they’d decided to deliver papers?That’s the problem with all this modern thinking...no bloody long term thought about the impact on unemployment and the wider economy....{wanders off muttering, shaking his head in his well worn brown shop steward’s overall jacket...}
If you ask Rick Astley for a DVD of the movie “Up”, he will not give it to you because he is Never Gonna Give You Up. However by not giving you Up, even though you asked for it, he is letting you down. This is known as the Astley Paradox
I don't know whether it was true or not, maybe our friends from over the pond can confirm, a work colleague once told me he was working in the East coast of USA & Canada and he started dating a girl there. One weekend they decided to go to the beach and start early, so he went at 5 am to collect his girlfriend. There was no sign of life in the house so he banged on the door, and his girlfriend father opened an upstairs window asking when was going on. My friend said "sorry to wake you but I was just knocking up your daughter". The guy came furious and chased him off telling him never to come back. Apparently, that term means you have just ****ed his daughter over there.
