A school conversation has been printed on several images:
TEACHER: Why are you late?
STUDENT: Why does it matter? You still get paid, right?
The late student’s snarky comment was posted on Twitter on March 24, 2010.
Twitter
Mr. Guap Collector
@ShawnMilli
Back early to pick up Kay…Her teacher imma have2 put a foot 2ass cuz she b lookin @ me sideways if I come late BITCH U STILL GET PAID!
2:06 PM - 21 Sep 2009
Twitter
kathleen
@k_a_d_
Teacher:why are you late. Student: does it really matter you still get paid.
2:31 AM - 24 Mar 2010
Twitter
Somya Arora
@lol_girl18
Teacher:why are you late. Student: does it really matter you still get paid.
6:16 AM - 28 Mar 2010
6 January 2012. Boston (MA) Globe, “Names,” pg. G14:
No. 85 tweeted. “Teacher: Why are you late? My daughter: Why does it matter? You still get paid, right? - this is detention worthy not suspension.”
Distance Education
Top 50 Education Tweets of 2011
Jan 17, 2012
Shanon Woodruff, Distance-Education.org Columnist
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@TheKillerTruthz - Teacher: ‘why are you late?’ ... ‘Does it really matter? You still get paid.
Twitter
High School Problems
@ComedyOrTruth
Teacher: “Why are you late?” Me: “Why does it matter. You still get paid, right?”
1:00 AM - 28 Dec 2012
Facebook
Trollology
December 31, 2012 ·
Teacher: “Why are you late?” Me: “Why does it matter. You still get paid, right?”
Twitter
FUNNY TWEETS
@JokesMemesFacts
Teacher: “Why are you late?” Me: “Why does it matter. You still get paid, right?”
9:41 AM - 26 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.
Recent entries:
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t want to listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
•“Took my own lunch to work and didn’t buy a coffee today so I should be able to afford to buy a house any day now” (5/8)
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t wanna listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
•Entry in progress—BP24 (5/8)
•Entry in progress—BP23 (5/8)
More new entries...
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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