“This ain’t my first rodeo” (or “This is not my first rodeo”) is a popular saying. The saying almost always uses the negative in discussing a first rodeo.
This was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on January 9, 2021:
“People never tell you when it’s their first rodeo, but are always eager to inform you when it is not.”
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Posted by u/DrAwkward404 January 9, 2021
People never tell you when it’s their first rodeo, but are always eager to inform you when it is not.
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@TheReBellSystem
People never tell you when it’s their first rodeo, but are always eager to inform you when it is not.
9:57 PM · Jan 9, 2021·IFTTT
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shower thoughts
@thinking2015
People never tell you when it’s their first rodeo, but are always eager to inform you when it is not. #thinkaboutit
10:25 PM · Jan 9, 2021·IFTTT
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Wisdom Of Words
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People never tell you when it’s their first rodeo, but are always eager to inform you when it is not.
#Showerthoughts
10:38 PM · Jan 9, 2021·IFTTT
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justin 🍄
@fastorangecar
People never tell you when it’s their first rodeo, but are always eager to tell you when it’s not.
12:15 PM · Jan 10, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
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RandomFun!
@RandomFun_
People never tell you when it’s their first rodeo, but are always eager to inform you when it is not.
3:17 AM · Jan 11, 2021·IFTTT
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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