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Bring em back (fedia.io)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It wasn't the same as a handyman. The title "useful man" was for a servant who'd never actually serve the master.

Today it'd be a "runner" or some kind of "assistant to the assistant"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A Go-fer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Holy shit, is this why lowly assistants are colloquially called gophers?!? I never drew the connection. Sometime we just take weird words or phrases for granted without thinking about their etymology.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

TIL, thanks.