“Boos” sounds like “booze,” prompting the pun:
“Don’t drink with ghosts. They can’t handle their boos.”
The joke has been cited on Twitter since December 9, 2013. Another ghost joke is: “A ghost walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘We don’t serve spirits!’”
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Warren Bradley
@wzabradley
Don’t drink with ghosts, they can’t handle their boos.
2:41 PM - 9 Dec 2013
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Horribly Punny
@HorriblyPunny
Don’t drink with ghosts, they can’t handle their boos.
4:20 PM - 18 Dec 2013
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Kate
@katelynepearson
Never drink with ghosts, they can’t handle their boos
10:32 PM - 5 Feb 2014
Eye-Rolling Puns
Wednesday, November 5th
Posted on November 5, 2014
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Don’t drink with ghosts, they can’t handle their boos.
Twitter
LaffGaff
@LaffGaff
Don’t drink with ghosts.
They can’t handle their boos.
#funny #jokes #jokeoftheday
4:12 PM - 15 Oct 2015
Pun.me (Pun #100)
Don’t drink with ghosts, they can’t handle their BOOs.
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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