"Let’s have a drink, let’s have some fun, because at last the job is done” is a saying that’s on the wall of T.G.I. Friday’s restaurants. The toast has been cited in print since at least 1992 and is of unknown authorship.
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Crisp Toasts:
Wonderful words that add wit and class to every time you raise your glass
By Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham
New York, NY: St. Martinʼs Press
1992
Pg. 125:
Let’s have a drink,
Let’s have some fun.
Because at last
The job is done.
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Toasts for Every Occasion
By Jennifer Rahel Conover
New York, NY: New American Library
2001
Pg. ?:
Let’s have a drink,
Let’s have some fun,
Because at last,
The job is done.
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LittleVic_Ve October 15, 2010
“Let’s have a drink, let’s have some fun, because at last the job is done”
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.
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.
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