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.

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Entry from November 14, 2015
“A filibuster is a long speech about nothing by an authority on the subject”

“A filibuster is a long speech about nothing by an authority on the subject” is a jocular definition of the filibuster. The definition was given in the “Comic Dictionary” feature of several 1955 newspapers.
   
 
20 April 1955, Dallas (TX) Morning News, sec. 1, pg. 1, col. 3:
DALLAS DEFINITION: Filibuster—A long speech about nothing by an authority on the subjects.—LORRIE BROOKS.
 
31 May 1955,Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, CA), pg. 1, col. 4:
COMIC DICTIONARY
FILIBUSTER
A long speech about nothing by an authority on the subject.
   
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How to Hold an Audience in the Hollow of Your Hand:
7 Techniques for Starting Your Speech, 11 Techniques for Keeping it Rolling, Including Over 600 Icebreaker Jokes

By Art Fettig
Battle Creek, MI: Growth Unlimited
1988
Pg. 128:
A filibuster is a long speech about nothing by an authority on the subject.
   
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20,000 Quips & Quotes
By Evan Esar
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Books
1995, ©1968
Pg. 755:
A filibuster is a long speech about nothing by an authority on the subject.
 
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“A filibuster is a speech about nothing
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Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health • Saturday, November 14, 2015 • Permalink


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