Paradoxic Jobs

[Marshwarble]

Copyists produce original material.
Surgeons work in hospitals, not surgeries.
Solicitors do not walk the streets looking for work.
Meter readers look at numbers.
Engineers generally work with electrical machines, rather than steam/petrol engines.
Boatswains work on a ship.
Tradesman work on money, rather than trading items.
Firemen keep the fire going-if they work on a steam engine.

Do you know any more?

[CrapAtCryptics]

Hookers dont play rugby

[woofgang]

but tradesmen have a trade. and why is it paradoxical that a meter reader looks at numbers?

[Marshwarble]

You read words usually? Numbers are usually identified.

[bibblebub]

taxidermists have nothing to do with cabs (but the fare might leave you feeling like you've been stuffed)

[woofgang]

so why does the person on the phone ask me to read the long number off my credit card?

[Marshwarble]

What person? I usually have an automatic message. Maybe you're right, though.

[Buenchico]

An antique dealer doesn't have to be elderly.

British vets can't relate the same war stories that American vets can.

Trains are actually driven by their engines, not by train drivers.

A blacksmith doesn't have to be of African descent.

A Royal Navy sailor holding the rank of Chief Petty Officer isn't an officer.

Neither is a Warrant Officer in the Army.

A health inspector never checks on people's health.

When they put a call out for a 'chilled colleague' in Asda it's never answered by by a dope-smoking hippy.

Similarly, the person who responds to a call for a 'frozen colleague' never seems to be a snowman.

[Marshwarble]

"A blacksmith doesn't have to be of African descent."

I think you mean African, or Afro-European. We are all of African descent.

[Zacs-Master]

'Engineers generally work with electrical machines, rather than steam/petrol engines'

Erm, no they don't. Electrical Engineers work with electrical machines.

[waterboatman]

A Warrant Officer in the army is indeed an officer. A lance corporal, a Corporal and a sergeant are all non commissioned officers.

[Jackdaw33]

The term 'officer' is usually used in reference to commissioned officers.

[waterboatman]

True. But Warrant officers are indeed officers, they hold a Royal Warrant.

NCO's are usually called NCO's, Non-commissioned officers. Officers non the less.

[murraymints]

do gasmen...pass a lot of wind even ?

[waterboatman]

...or talk a lot.