He's a retired plumber, older than the paint on my great-aunt Silvia's house, and real sharp.

A barrel-chested retired plumber, a white man of 57, Mr. Johnson suffers from diabetes that has already cost him two toes.

And when an actor or a retired plumber suddenly decides on a career change, the neophyte's first investment is often at the Guitar Center.

Mr. Simoncelli, a retired plumber, asked of his new Lilliputian house.

One of them is a portly man of middle age who is a retired plumber.

Rather than wearing glasses all the time, Mr. Mulroy, a retired plumber, decided on surgery to make his vision clear again.

She and her husband, a retired plumber, live in a four-bedroom house and are concerned about how difficult it would be to find a smaller home.

"It was such a terrible feeling to realize that someone came into your house and took your belongings," said the 72-year-old retired plumber.

I'm painting the portrait of a retired plumber for two hundred francs.

BOTH companies try to recruit retired plumbers and electricians for the sales force, but often fail.