“Life is a soup and I’m a (fucking) fork”—a utensil useless for drinking soup—is a saying that has been printed on many images. The song “(I’m Gonna) Kick You Out” (1998) by the Twelve Caesars opens with this lyric:
“I am what I am in the back of beyond
a man with a fork in a world of soup
Baby all this time I begged for a spoon
but now I know what I have to do.”
“Adulting is soup and I am a fork” is a variation of that saying that has been printed on many images. “Adulting is soup and I am a fork” was posted on Twitter by Holly Brown (and later by Charlene 💀) on December 23. 2015.
“College is soup and I am a fork” and “School is soup and I am a fork” are similar sayings.
Twitter
Holly Brown
@hnbrown0507
Adulting is soup and I am a fork.
12:08 PM · Dec 23, 2015·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Charlene 💀
@CharleneSueAnn
Adulting is soup. And I’m a fork.
4:24 PM · Dec 23, 2015·Twitter for Android
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Aunty Colleen
@_kellogz_
Adulting is soup and I’m a fork.
1:00 PM · Jan 19, 2016·Twitter for Android
Twitter
𝓑𝓻𝓲
@briZ_bri
Adulting is soup and I am a fork
7:16 PM · Apr 1, 2016·Twitter for iPhone
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Megan Brooks
@megan_brooks180
Adulting is soup and I am a fork
11:31 PM · Sep 9, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
Facebook
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November 2, 2018 ·
Adulting is soup… And I am a fork.
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Twitter
Party Marty
@MartinLucas_85
Adulting is soup. I am a fork.
11:46 AM · Dec 12, 2019·Twitter for Android
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:
•“I read old books because I would rather learn from those who built civilization than those who tore it down” (4/18)
•“I study old buildings because I would rather learn from those who built civilization than those who tore it down” (4/18)
•“Due to personal reasons, I’m still going to be fluffy this summer” (4/18)
•“Do not honk at me. My life is worthless. I will kill us both” (bumper sticker) (4/18)
•Entry in progress—BP16 (4/18)
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.
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