“Tequila! Because beer isn’t fast enough!” is a jocular saying that has been printed on posters. A pretty woman (with one fallen dress strap) is shown in the poster, indicating that she’ll get drunk faster with tequila. “Tequila… because beer isn’t fast enough” was cited on Twitter on May 12, 2010.
Twitter
Tamara, I am FIERCE!
@YouAreFIERCE
#MOMism : Tequila… because beer isn’t fast enough http://mommagazine.ca
5:06 PM - 12 May 2010
Bright Eyed Young Thing
JUNE 23, 2010
tequila. because beer isn’t fast enough.
Twitter
Wayne Sharpe
@rutterkinuk
Keepsake Tin #TEQUILA-Because #Beer isn’t fast enough http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/260579124349
9:46 AM - 30 Nov 2010
Vampire Freaks
poison_me
wrote on
January 17, 2011, 08:19am
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TEQUILA! BECAUSE BEER ISN’T FAST ENOUGH!
Twitter
Drunk Girl Problems
@Sassy_Drunk
Tequila: Because beer isn’t fast enough. #NationalTequilaDay
8:43 PM - 24 Jul 2013
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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