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"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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Do plummers do things like this to make
more money or is there some other reason?

Margo

What's a plummer? Anything like a troll?

No, it is Middle German for "rat installer". To celebrate the summer
soltice the Germans used to hire plummers to put rats in each other's
houses. They never used to work on water heaters, but perhaps they have had
to diversify.



Germans bathe in cold water and would have had to import rats, which no
German would do )