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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“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress”
“Three chords and the truth” (“Country music is three chords and the truth”)
“Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty”
World’s Greatest Ballroom or World’s Most Famous Ballroom (Roseland Ballroom)
“Money talks, but credit has an echo” (“Money talks, but credit uses sign language”)
“The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty”
“Men are like bank accounts—without a lot of money, they don’t generate much interest”
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last—well, neither does bathing”
“The Roman numerals for forty (40) are XL” (i.e., weight gain at 40 makes one Xtra Large)
“It’s not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame”
“Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five”
Dark Money (political contributions from unrevealed sources)
“No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning”
“The trouble with unemployment is that you never get a day off”
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off”
“Drunk as a skunk”
Jobber (job + truther; a jobs number conspiracy theorist)
“When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing”
“Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet”
Cooter Brown (“as drunk as Cooter Brown”)
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