A joke about an electric car is:
Q: What do you call an electric car on top of a hill?
A: A miracle.
The joke has been cited in print since at least 2008.
Mark’s Musings
Friday, January 04, 2008
Electric Car
(...)
ELECTRIC CAR JOKES
With apologies to the Yugo
What do you call an electric car at the top of a hill?
A miracle.
Google Books
It’s Better to Die Laughing Than to Be Dead Serious:
How to Be the Life of the Party, the Podium, and Everywhere In Between
By Marvin Maupin
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse
2010
Pg. 90:
What do you call an electric car at the top of a hill? A miracle.
Twitter
Drive.co.uk
@drive_co_uk
What do you call an electric car at the top of a hill?
A miracle.
8:27 AM - 28 Apr 2010
benzinga
Green Jokes from My Green Stock Speech Last Week
Fred Fuld , Stocker Blog
May 20, 2010 3:01pm
(...)
What do you call an electric car at the top of a hill? A miracle.
Twitter
Andrew
@AndrewHansen
@BenImrie Q. What do you call an electric car at the top of a hill? Ans. A miracle.
5:06 PM - 5 Oct 2011
Twitter
Druk&Drukpa
@drukanddrukpa
Q: What do you call an electric car at the top of a hill?
A: A miracle.
1:59 PM - 24 May 2014
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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