Third Friday of December every year
Dr Watson
A day to honor assistants, number twos, back office staff, PAs — unsung heroes like Sherlock Holmes’s Dr Watson and Robinson Crusoe’s Man Friday as well as those who come from behind and win, tortoises overcoming hares.
Underdogs can end up top dogs like David in Malcolm Gladwell’s article “How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules” in The New Yorker.
We’d love to hear about examples you may have. Please email them to us: contactus@dullmensclub.com.
The word underdog originated when wooden ships were being built. Two large planks of wood, called “dogs,” were placed over a pit. Two men sawed the planks to make them into smaller planks, one man on top, one underneath, The one on top, called the top dog, would guide the sawing. The one underneath, covered with sawdust, was called the underdog.
