It could(n’t) be worse…
The Worst Jobs in the World (click here, and again, for larger version).
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As we tote that bale, we might send a Robin Hood-themed birthday card to John Gay; he was born on this date in 1685. A poet, dramatist, and member (with Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Thomas Parnell) of the Scriblerus Club, Gay is probably best remembered for his 1728 “ballad opera” The Beggars Opera, a story of thieves & highwaymen, which was the basis for Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera (though Gay also wrote the libretto for Handel’s Acis & Galatea).
