“There’s too much blood in my caffeine system” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many gift items, such as posters, T-shirts and coffee mugs. The saying has been cited in print since at least 1994.
West Coast Online
WCO issue # 19, September 1994, page 23
Taglines & signatures
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There’s too much blood in my caffeine system.
Google Books
The Greatest Joke Book Ever
By Mel Greene
New York, NY: Avon Books
1999
Pg. 241:
There’s too much blood in my caffeine system.
Google Books
The Java Tutorial (Second Edition)
By Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
1999
Pg. 325:
There’s too much blood in my caffeine system.
23 September 2004, The Press of Atlantic City (NJ), “Speedo Must Love It”:
One member of the panel, who eventually was dismissed, got a laugh with her bumper sticker: “There’s too much blood in my caffeine system.”
The Daily Star—Weekend Magazine (Bangladesh)
Volume 4 Issue 39 | March 25, 2005
Lines to live by . . .
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*There’s too much blood in my caffeine system.
Google Books
The Snark Handbook:
Insult Edition: Comebacks, Taunts, and Effronteries
By Lawrence Dorfman
New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing
2010
Pg. ?:
There’s too much blood in my caffeine system.
PsychologistMimi
Ode to Coffee 1015 on a Saturday Night
posted on AUGUST 4, 2012
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I now live in New York, and do what I can to make sure I don’t have too much blood in my caffeine system. People complain that everywhere you travel in the world you find Starbucks. I find this delightful. It’s my anchor to reality.
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.
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