“‘Your money or your life!’ ‘Haha! Joke’s on you, I don’t have either of those things’” is a joke about an attempted robbery that was posted on Twitter on September 26, 2015.
An engineering student version was posted on Twitter on October 31, 2016:
Mugger: “YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE!”
Me: “Sorry mate, I’m an Engineering student. I don’t have either”.
A computer science student version was posted on Twitter on November 1, 2016:
Mugger to Student: “Your money or your life!”
Student: “I’m a computer science major. I don’t have either one.”
Twitter
Blake Shumaker
@BShumakerMusic
“Your money or your life!” “Haha! Joke’s on you, I don’t have either of those things.”
3:55 PM - 26 Sep 2015
Twitter
bailamos
@Bailamostar
ROBBER: Your money or your life.
ME: I don’t have either. Seriously. Can you just kill me?
5:33 AM - 30 Jan 2016
Twitter
donn.
@tzedonn
Mugger: “YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE!”
Me: “Sorry mate, I’m an Engineering student. I don’t have either”.
10:15 AM - 31 Oct 2016
Twitter
Richard Serkey
@aufrichtig40
Mugger to Student: “Your money or your life!”
Student: “I’m a computer science major. I don’t have either one.”
(by robalobagus)
1:19 AM - 1 Nov 2016
Twitter
Joke Authority
@JokeAuthority
Mugger: Your money or your life!
The student keeps walking, and says, “Sorry bud, I’m a Computer Science student. I don’t have either.”
9:10 PM - 4 Nov 2016
Reddit—Jokes
A mugger jumps out in front of a university student…
submitted October 29, 2017 by UW_CompEng
...and shouts “your money or your life!”
The student keeps walking, and says “Sorry mate, I’m a Computer Science student. I don’t have either”.
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, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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