“People go to Weight Watchers to learn their lessens” is a pun on “learn their lessons.” The dieting joke joke was cited in the newsgroup rec.humor in 1996.
Google Groups: rec.humor
DIET (PUTDOWNS)
Nancy Carson
3/27/96
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People go to Weight Watchers to learn their lessens.
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
Thoughts on diets
Joke List
1/17/99
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People go to Weight Watchers to learn their lessens.
The Hindu (India)
February 9, 2008
Wave the green flag to health
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People go to Weight Watchers to learn their lessens.
Twitter
EZ Diet
@myezdiet
http://bit.ly/ezDiet People go to Weight Watchers to learn their lessens. (catch the spelling of “lessens”. Get it?)
5:03 PM - 3 Apr 2010
Twitter
Fitness Viking
@FitnessViking
People go to Weight Watchers to learn their lessens.�
8:00 PM - 24 Feb 2015
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.
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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