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skipvia commented on the word job in the morning
Carl and Annie fall deeply in love, get married despite everyones' objections, move to the suburbs and find clerical employment in a furniture supplier's warehouse.
January 30, 2008
seanahan commented on the word job in the morning
Huh?
January 31, 2008
skipvia commented on the word job in the morning
Well, seanahan, they move to the suburbs and...ummm...get jobs for which they have to get up every...ummm....morning. You see, it's a play on Joy in the Morning, which...
Would it help if you knew which list this was part of?
January 31, 2008
seanahan commented on the word job in the morning
It would help if I had heard of Joy in the Morning.
February 1, 2008
skipvia commented on the word job in the morning
Ah. Not surprised that you haven't heard of it. Not a very good book (Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), made into a sappy movie in the early seventies. My family knew the author as I was growing up.
February 1, 2008
sionnach commented on the word job in the morning
And here I thought it was P.G. Wodehouse. But maybe that's "Joy in the Morning, Jeeves".
February 1, 2008
skipvia commented on the word job in the morning
I didn't realize there was a Wodehouse book of the same name. It has been so long since I've read one, they kind of all blend together to me. Kind of like the Boxcar Children, for a real blast from the past...
February 1, 2008