A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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:
“Instead of ‘British Summer Time’ and ‘Greenwich Mean Time’ we should just call them ‘Oven Clock Correct Time’...” (3/28)
“Has anyone here ever drank a pint of tequila? I know it’s a long shot” (3/28)
“A pint of tequila? That’s a long shot” (3/28)
“The U.S. should add three more states. Because 53 is a prime number. Then they can truly be one nation, indivisible” (3/28)
Entry in progress—BP4 (3/28)
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“From here. it’s possible” (Texas Tech slogan)

Fried Twinkie

“You have to speculate to accumulate” (gambling proverb)

“Sell in May and go away (buy back on St. Leger’s day)” (Halloween Indicator)

“A stock doesn’t know where it has been” or “A stock doesn’t know you own it” (Wall Street proverb)

“To err is human; to hedge divine” (Wall Street proverb)

“No bowl of borscht”

Texas Roll (sushi)

“He couldn’t find a Jew in the Bronx”

“Today a peacock, tomorrow a feather duster” (business axiom)

Hawaiian Pizza (Toast Hawaii)

Lunch Wagon

“It’s not a stock market, but a market of stocks” (Wall Street saying)

Recession Special (reduced-price food)

“A market that rallies on bad news could signal a bottom’ (Wall Street adage)

“Too big to fail” (TBTF)

Wire House (Wirehouse)

“Even Napoleon had his Watergate” (Yogi Berra?)

Sweet Potato Fries

“The public is right during the trends, but wrong at both ends” (Wall Street adage)

Mixed Fries (french fries + sweet potato fries)

Bomboloni (Italian doughnuts)

Doughnut Hole (Donut Hole)

Uncle Sam (summary)

“We burn rubber and chipotles” (Houston taco truck slogan)

“The (rising) star of Texas” (Texas State slogan)

Felon City; Wicked Sticks; Kliffside (Bacliff nicknames)

“He who sells what isn’t his’n, must buy it back or go to prison”

Brother Jonathan (summary)

“Don’t let the tax tail wag the investment dog” (Wall Street adage)

“Wall Street never discounts the same thing twice”

“Put 10% of your portfolio in gold and hope it doesn’t work” (investment adage)

Eggnog (Egg Nog)

MFFL (Mavericks Fan For Life)

Roach Coach

Chitlin’ Circuit

Atomic Deer Turds

Central Distressway (Central Expressway in Dallas)

New Wild Boar Village

“The stock market trades to inflict the maximum amount of pain”

“Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result”

Ham Sandwich

Chicken and Dumplings (Slickers)

Broadway Bowl

Subway Super Bowl

Turkey Tamale Pie (Turkey Tamales)

“Never order salad at a barbecue joint”

New York of India (summary)

Turkey Dance (Thanksgiving football sack dance) & Funky Chicken Dance

Bloody Mary (cocktail) & Celery Stalk/Celery Stick Stirrer

Rats With Antlers (deer nickname)