“Brews” sounds like “bruise.” There have been several puns. “What do you get if you get hit by a tea bag? A brews!” was posted on Twitter on May 1, 2012.
“A beer hit me in the arm and gave me a brews” was posted on Twitter on September 9, 2012.
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Lizardfish
@LizardfishTV
What do you get if you get hit by a tea bag? A brews!
6:45 AM - 1 May 2012
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Emma Beck
@lollipopprlady
Joke of the day! RT @lizardfishtv: What do you get if you get hit by a tea bag? A brews!
6:47 AM - 1 May 2012
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Cristian Arroyo
@CristianArroyo
A beer hit me in the arm and gave me a brews. :(
2:04 PM - 9 Sep 2012
The Amazingly Lame Joke of the Day
Monday, August 7, 2017
What do you get when someone hits you with a couple of beer cans?
A brews.
Posted by Tim Wycislak at 7:05 AM
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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