A proverbial saying is that “money can’t buy happiness.” “If money can’t buy happiness, explain motorcycles and beer” is a saying that has been printed on many images.
The “motorcycles and beer” saying has been cited in print since at least 2015. The saying probably originated on an image.
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Synde
@psynde
Replying to @BiIIMurray
“@BiIIMurray: If money can’t buy happiness explain pizza.” Hah! This is so you @GregEnkler
.. Just add motorcycles and beer..
8:51 AM · Apr 20, 2015·Twitter for iPad
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knicks fan. pain.
@closer_2_theSun
If money can’t buy happiness explain motorcycles and beer.
10:49 AM · Aug 11, 2015·Twitter for iPhone
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David Voth
@SexCigarsBooze
If money can’t buy happiness, explain #motorcycles & #beer.
(The saying is also shown on a sign.—ed.)
12:38 PM · Aug 11, 2015·Twitter Web Client
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Manic Mike
@krugsrq
If money can’t buy happiness,explain motorcycles and beer.
1:12 PM · Aug 11, 2015·Twitter Web Client
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Anon
@Anon31976006
If money can’t buy happiness, explain motorcycles and beer.
9:30 PM · Oct 9, 2018·Twitter for Android
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Chandler
@CMins_
If money can’t buy happiness, Explain Motorcycles and Beer #harleydavidson #bikelife https://instagram.com/p/Bybk6zJpaOk/?igshid=yw4ey2v4couk
9:48 PM · Jun 7, 2019·Instagram
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1:23 AM · Mar 13, 2021·Blog2Social APP
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@ladyxharley
If money can’t buy happiness,…….explain motorcycles and beer……
#thatsall #ISaidWhatISaid #whereisthelie #HellsKitchen #bikersdoitbetter
3:03 PM · Jul 21, 2021 from Hemet, CA·Twitter for iPhone
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 Popeye's 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.
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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