A photographer sometimes gets people to smile by getting subjects to say “cheese.” A joke is:
“I was never a photogenic person, mainly because when everyone said cheese I said ‘where?!’”
The line was posted on Twitter by Hitmonjake on December 15, 2013, and has been printed on several images.
Twitter
mafer
@mafernovo
They said “Cheese!!” I said “WHERE!?!???”
1:50 PM - 22 Jan 2013
Twitter
Hitmonjake
@jakelikesnaps
I was never a photogenic person, mainly because when everyone said cheese I said “where?!”
5:03 AM - 15 Dec 2013
Twitter
Carla Spaccarotelli
@cjspacc
”@sad_jake: I was never a photogenic person, mainly because when everyone said cheese I said “where?!”” Funny stuff!
1:28 AM - 22 Dec 2013
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TheBeanDaddy
@iameightyashes
Replying to @jakelikesnaps
Lol “@sad_jake: I was never a photogenic person, mainly because when everyone said cheese I said “where?!”
12:19 AM - 23 Dec 2013
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NewFoodOnTheBlock
@newfoodtheblock
I was never a photogenic person, because when everyone said cheese I said “WHERE”? http://ift.tt/1RMuOyo
12:52 AM - 4 Mar 2016
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OMG One Liners
@omg_oneliners
I was never a photogenic person because when everyone said cheese I said “WHERE”?
10:39 AM - 13 Jul 2017
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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