Drinking “lighter fluid” doesn’t make people “lighter”—it could be fatal—but there are jokes. “Want to lose weight? Try the Pyro Diet! Drink plenty of Lighter fluid #WhatAJoke” was posted on Twitter by Ryan Burch on September 17, 2011. ” If you’re looking for a drink to help you lose weight, I suggest that you try Lighter Fluid” was posted on Twitter by UberLaughs on November 8, 2012.
A riddle was posted on Reddit—Jokes on September 6, 2019:
Q: What type of drink makes you lose weight?
A: Lighter fluid.
Twitter
Ryan Burch
@IncrediBurch
Want to lose weight? Try the Pyro Diet! Drink plenty of Lighter fluid #WhatAJoke
6:31 PM · Sep 17, 2011·Twitter for Android
Twitter
povidone calhoun
@povidonecalhoun
Diets can literally make you die. Just ask my mate, he thought he could lose weight by drinking lighter fluid. He’s dead of course.
8:46 AM · Oct 16, 2011·Twitter for Android
Twitter
UberLaughs
@UberLaughs
#UberLaughs If you’re looking for a drink to help you lose weight, I suggest that you try Lighter Fluid.
4:08 PM · Nov 8, 2012·IFTTT
Twitter
CollegeHumor
@CollegeHumor
If you’re looking for a drink to help you lose weight, I suggest that you try Lighter Fluid http://ow.ly/f97mH
1:20 AM · Nov 9, 2012·Hootsuite
Twitter
Funny Girl
@Everydaydeliver
Need to lose weight ASAP. How much lighter fluid do I need to drink to become 10 lbs. lighter? #funny
9:57 AM · Jun 8, 2017·IFTTT
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Savage_Brick September 6, 2019
What Type of Drink Makes you Lose Weight?
Lighter fluid
COMMENTS
justcallmedudedude
Just burn off all the weight, right?
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
•“Some call it multitasking, but I call it doing something else until I remember what I was doing in the first place” (5/14)
•“It’s pretty crazy how there’s an entire profession we have to make wear body cameras because they lie so much” (5/14)
•“Some call it multitasking. I call it doing something else while I try to remember what I was doing in the first place” (5/14)
•“Them: Show me proof.” / “Me: *Sends proof*” / “Them: You’re a conspiracy theorist!” (5/14)
•Entry in progress—BP22 (5/14)
More new entries...
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
This site is edited by Barry Popik. These are the Cookies and Privacy Policies.