[Ads-l] picker

[Chris Waigl]

I think I became aware of the noun reading Cory Doctorow's 1998 short story
Craphound. Available here: http://www.spacewesterns.com/articles/57/. It is
set in the picker milieu in the Toronto area, and the both the title
character (a space alien) and the first person narrator are pickers.

Chris

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 8:39 AM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yesterday, my neighbor told me about pickers, people who seek out valuable
> merchandise to sell to antique shops. She told me that pickers often have
> routes that they visit in their search and that it can be a lucrative
> occupation.
>
> This meaning of “picker” is not in the English OLD (
> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/picker <
> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/picker>), Wiktionary (
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/picker <
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/picker>) or Merriam-Webster (
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picker <
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picker>).
>
> TVphiles may be familiar with this meaning from a program called “American
> Pickers” that debuted on 18 January 2010 (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pickers <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pickers>).
>
> 1. December 2012
> https://www.udemy.com/draft/32557/ <https://www.udemy.com/draft/32557/>
> Scott Liscomb
>
> ——
> So You Want To Be A Picker?
>
> This course will teach the basics, and secret techniques, of how to make
> money as a picker of rare and valuable items.
> ——
>
> 2. 2018 c. March
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/8ac182/a_picker_brought_this_art_into_our_antique_shop/
> <
> https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/8ac182/a_picker_brought_this_art_into_our_antique_shop/
> >
> Posted by u/johnsinternetsales
>
> ——
> A picker brought this art into our antique shop. Wondering the name of the
> model.
> ——
>
> 3. There are numerous shops with “picker” in the name.
>
> Picker Paradise (
> https://www.averyjournal.com/avery/picker-paradise-new-antique-shop-open-in-newland/article_5f11abde-af5d-54cf-9428-1132384b3469.html
> <
> https://www.averyjournal.com/avery/picker-paradise-new-antique-shop-open-in-newland/article_5f11abde-af5d-54cf-9428-1132384b3469.html
> >)
> Picker Joe’s Antique Mall (
> https://www.yelp.ca/biz/picker-joes-antique-mall-savannah <
> https://www.yelp.ca/biz/picker-joes-antique-mall-savannah>)
> The Picker Sisters (http://www.retrochique.ca/ <http://www.retrochique.ca/>),
> apparently a nickname
>
> 4. July/August 1971?
>
> https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/how-to-antique-picker-zmaz71jazgoe
> <
> https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/how-to-antique-picker-zmaz71jazgoe
> >
> by Ira Smith
>
> This appears to be an article on antique picking written in 1971 in
> _Mother Earth News_ that has been put on the internet, but it’s not clear.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>
>
>
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