Dogsbody c. 1930, referring to people who were stuck with rough work. The term dogsbody has not always been derogatory, with a number of people deliberately using it as their callsign or handle. The most famous of these is probably Douglas Bader, who was an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Dogsbody A dogsbody, or less commonly dog robber in the Royal Navy, is a junior officer, or more generally someone who does drudge work. A rough American equivalent would be a "gofer," "grunt" or "lackey". The Royal Navy used dried peas and eggs boiled in a bag (pease
Then We Came to the End of the Best Books of 2007 by "The New York Times". "Time" magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #2. The book also won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. Then We Came to the End Then We Came to the End is the first novel by Joshua Ferris. It was released by Little, Brown and Company on March 1, 2007. A satire of the American workplace, it is similar in tone to Don DeLillo's "Americana," even borrowing DeLillo's first line for its title. It takes place in a