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Bob Mackey
@robairmackey
Love poetry is such mush. A man gives a woman his corn, and soon he winds up getting her peas.
9:30 AM · Feb 14, 2013·Twitter Web Client
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Bryznasty
@PogeyNarc
“A man takes a hooker to supper. He gives her his peas, she gives him her peas.”
4:58 PM · Mar 18, 2016·Twitter for Android
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@DannyElegance
A guy and gal go out to dinner,
He gives her his peas,
She gave him herpes
10:48 PM · Mar 28, 2016·Twitter for iPhone
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Smokey McPothead
@MyLittleRagers
Guy takes a prostitute to a fancy restaurant, he gives her his peas she gives him herpes.
1:55 PM · Jun 3, 2016·Twitter for Android
Reddit—Letterkenny
Posted by u/RafiBomb14 may 20, 2019
“Guy takes a hooker out for supper, he gave her his peas she gave him herpes”
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Boris_Meoww July 2, 2020
A man takes a hooker out to dinner. He gives her his peas
She gives him herpes
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.
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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