On working and playing

[stephbg]

There are some professions that also make perfectly reasonable hobbies. You can both work and play with cars, trains, computers, food, paint and music. Even children.



However...it's not quite universal.

Working with matches, for example. Playing with matches takes you to another place entirely. In our great dig-it-up-then-ship-it-out state plenty of people work with explosives. Playing with explosives just makes me think of Mythbusters.

What about chickens? Work, sure. Play, not so much.

Cheese? Accident victims?

With what else can you feasibly work, but not quite get away with playing with*?

(*) Grammatical advice for that sentence invited and welcomed.

Comments

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Dead bodies.

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

To quote Tom Lehrer "...the story of a young necrophiliac who achieves his boyhood ambition, and becomes the town coroner. (pause) I see the inmates are out in force tonight. (pause) The rest of you can look it up when you get home."

Ahem.