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.
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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.
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Q-Head (barbecue enthusiast)
"Q: How do journalists count? A: One, two, trend." (joke)
Q: What does Dallas have that Fort Worth doesn't? A: A nice city 30 miles away.
Q: Why doesn't Texas fall into the Gulf of Mexico? A: Because Oklahoma sucks!
Qeaster or QEaster (quarantine + Easter)
QEeen (quantitative easing or QE + queen)
QEternity (quantitative easing or QE + eternity)
Qtard (QAnon + retard)
Quackarazzi (quack + paparazzi)
Quackcine or Quacksine or Quackxine or Quackzine (quack + vaccine)
Quackseen (quack + vaccine)
Quacksinate (quack + vaccinate)
Quacksination (quack + vaccination)
Quacksine or Quackcine or Quackxine or Quackzine (quack + vaccine)
Quackxine or Quackcine or Quacksine or Quackzine (quack + vaccine)
Quackzine or Quackcine or Quacksine or Quackxine (quack + vaccine)
Quadriscuit or Quadscuit (similar to "biscuit" and "Triscuit")
"Quads for the broads" (weightlifting saying)
Quadscuit or Quadriscuit (similar to "biscuit" and "Triscuit")
"Quality is the best business plan"
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking"
"Quant is another word for wild fucking guess with math"
Quant or Quant Jock (quantitative analyst)
Quantitative Tightening (QT; Reverse QE)
"Economists do it with models" ("Quants do it with models")
Quaranadult (quarantine + adult)
Quaranchild (quarantine + child)
Quaranchildren (quarantine + children)
QuaranEaster (quarantine + Easter)
Quaranteam (quarantine + team)
Quaranteaming (quarantine + teaming)
QuarantEaster (quarantine + Easter)
Quaranteen (quarantine + teen)
Quaranteenager (quarantine + teenager)
Quarantine 15 (weight gain)
Quarantine Coffee
"Quarantine Day 20: Today, I melted an ice cube with my mind by just staring at it"
Quarantine Fifteen (weight gain)
"Quarantine has made me a bigger, better person... Well, bigger anyway"
"Quarantine has really showed me you don’t need fun to have alcohol"
"Quarantine has turned us into dogs. We roam the house all day looking for food..."
"Quarantine is a safe word for martial law"
"Quarantine is when you lock down the sick. Tyranny is when you lock down the healthy"
"Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of a sick person. Tyranny...of a healthy person"
"Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of sick people. Tyranny...of healthy people"
Quarantini (quarantine + martini)
Quarantiranny (quarantine + tyranny)
Quarantune (quarantine + tune)
Quarantween (quarantine + tween)
Quarantyranny (quarantine + tyranny)
Quareaster (quarantine + Easter)
Quarterly Capitalism
"Quasimodo walks into a bar..." (bar joke)
Cuatro Leches or Quatro Leches (four milks cake)
Quaxine or Quaxxine or Quaxxxine (quack + vaccine)
Quaxxine or Quaxine or Quaxxxine (quack + vaccine)
Quaxxxine or Quaxine or Quaxxine (quack + vaccine)
Queaster (quarantine + Easter)
Queen Anne (cocktail)
Queen City (New Orleans nickname)
Queen City of the Rio Grande (Del Rio nickname)
Queen City (Toronto, Ontario nickname)
Queen (Drag Queen)
Queen of Avenues (Fifth Avenue)
Queen of Soul Food (Sylvia's)
Queen of the Missions (Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo)
Queens (cocktail)
Queens Topographical Poem
Queenser (inhabitant of Queens)
Queensite (inhabitant of Queens)
Quesadiarrhea (quesadilla + diarrhea; "case of diarrhea")
Quesadilla
"Quesadilla? Better make it one dilla. I don't think I could eat a whole case"
Quesadilla on Steroids (mulita)
"Quesadillas are just flat tacos"
Quesapita or Quesa-Pita (quesadilla + pita)
Quesarito (quesadilla + burrito)
Queso Fries
"Queso is just fondue for chips"
"Queso is just Mexican fondue"
"Queso is just spicy fondue"
"Queso is just Tex-Mex fondue"
"Queso is just Texan fondue"
"Queso = Spanish for cheese. K, so = Midwestern for here’s the plan and you might not like it"
"Question Austerity"
"Question Authority"
"Quiche, because 'egg pie' sounds disgusting"
"Quiche is like a baked omelet in a pie shell"
"Quiche Lorraine is just a breakfast pie"
Quiche (Quiche Lorraine)
Quick Lunch; Beef and --, Sinkers
"Quicker than you can spit and holler 'Howdy!'"
"Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it"
Quinceañera (Quince Años)
Quinnipiac ("Q-poll") & Marist polls
"Quinoa is just hipster rice"
"Quinoa is rice for hipsters"
Quisqueya Heights (Washington Heights)
"Quit complaining about jury duty. You’re getting excused from work to go judge a stranger..."
"Quitters make excuses. Winners make coffee"
"Quitters never win, and winners never quit talking about how they won"
Quooklyn (Queens + Brooklyn)
"'Quotes on the Internet are becoming less and less reliable.' -- Abraham Lincoln"