There is a joke with the terms “occupation and “pre-occupied.” “Unemployment is good now because i realized i can put ‘pre-occupied’ on any forms that ask for my occupation” was posted on Twitter by bkshlfstd on March 9, 2018.
“Someone asked me what my occupation was. I said I never got that far because I was always pre-occupied” was posted on Reddit—Oneliners on November 23, 2019.
Twitter
Nico James
@DeWanderingSage
What’s my occupation?? I’m too pre-occupied with life..no time for their punch clock promises
2:33 PM · May 23, 2010·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
bkshlfstd
@bookshelfstud
unemployment is good now because i realized i can put “pre-occupied” on any forms that ask for my occupation
7:46 AM · Mar 9, 2018·Twitter Web Client
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/shagminer November 23, 2019
Someone asked me what my occupation was. I said I never got that far because I was always pre-occupied.
Twitter
Kids and life hacks
@guys_and
Someone asked me what my occupation was. I said I never got that far because I was always pre-occupied.
1:09 PM · Nov 23, 2019·IFTTT
Twitter
John Noonan
@NoonManTC
Someone asked me today what my occupation was.
I said I never got that far because I was always pre-occupied.
#jnjoke
5:42 PM · Nov 23, 2019·Facebook
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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.
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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