well, what's your job, me lad? "Making spots for rocking-horses, sir" "Three months" "Exemption, sir?" "Nao, exemption be _____d ! Three months' hard!" Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander imagining his gruff cartoon character, Old Bill, sitting on a tribunal making decisions about whether men's employment exempts them from military service. In this case, Old Bill has no sympathy for a man with an inconsequential job and instantly condemns him to three months' hard labour!