A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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Great Unrecovery

FISHDO (Fuck It, Shit Happens—Drive On); FISHMO (Fuck It, Shit Happens—Move On)

“Do today what others won’t, so you can do tomorrow what others can’t”

“Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, when we don’t want to do it”

Big Things Happen Here (Dallas slogan)

South Hudson Institute of Technology (West Point nickname)

Sequesteria (sequester + hysteria)

Sugar Honey Iced Tea (“shit” backronym)

McNasty’s (McDonald’s nickname)

Wally Martinez (Walmart nickname)

James Cagney Love Scene

“You’re either selling wins or you’re selling hope” (sports adage)

“Arrogance is ignorance matured”

“Heaven is where the cooks are French, the policemen are English, the mechanics are German…”

“You are only as sick as your secrets”

“The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun”

“An armed society is a polite society”

“Be not afraid of any man, no matter what his size; when danger threatens, ... I will equalize”

“If figure skating was easy, it would be called hockey”

“If gymnastics were easy, it would be called football”

Terminal City (Grand Central Terminal)

LoFo (low information voter)

“If cheerleading were any easier, it would be called football”

Big White (White House nickname)

“An airplane doesn’t make money sitting on the ground” (airline adage)

“Takeoffs are optional; landings are mandatory” (aviation adage)

“The only time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire” (aviation adage)

“Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous” (aviation joke)

Take A Chance Airlines (TACA backronymic nickname)

Take Another Plane (TAP Portugal backronymic nickname)

TWA Tea (dirty joke)

Dewey, Huey and Louie (DHL Express backronymic nickname)

Documents Hopelessly Lost or Drivers Hopelessly Lost (DHL Express backronymic nickname)

Such A Bad Experience, Never Again (Sabena backronymic nickname)

Leave Island Any Time (LIAT backronymic nickname)

Every Landing Always Late (El Al backronymic nickname)

United Package Smashers or United Parcel Smashers (United Parcel Service or UPS nickname)

Buster Brown (United Parcel Service or UPS nickname)

Avinunca (Avianca nickname)

Doesn’t Even Leave The Airport or Doesn’t Ever Leave The Airport (Delta backronymic nickname)

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