The Big Apple: “A person of unspecified gender walks into a bar..” (bar joke)

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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.

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Entry from October 27, 2021

“A person of unspecified gender walks into a bar..” (bar joke)

“A guy walks into a bar...” is a typical form of what has been called the “bar joke.” This version was posted on Sickipedia on October 27, 2021:

“A person of unspecified gender walks into a bar...”

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Tennesseine
@Tennesseine
So this gal walks into a bar. Wait, or guy. Don’t wanna offend men. Oh, and not a bar. I want to be sensitive to alcoholics. Oh, shit! Not ‘walks’! I hope I didn’t offend people in wheelchairs!
So this person of unspecified gender enters an establishment of unspecified purpose.
8:15 PM · Feb 9, 2019 from Charlotte, NC·Twitter for iPhone

Twitter
Damon Bostrom
@DamonBostrom
Replying to @Latina_Schatje and @geostylegeo
A disagreeable sentient being of unspecified race, faith, gender, sexual orientation, age, specie… walks into a bar…
2:48 PM · Jan 30, 2021·Twitter Web App

Sickipedia
A person of unspecified gender walks into a bar ...
Joke by Bomber in Jokes With No Home - Random · October 27, 2021 02:45 PM

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Bob Kostic
@causticbob
A person of unspecified gender walks into a bar ...
7:13 PM · Oct 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

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WSⱯꓛꓤⱯS ꓨNIꓥIꓶ
@SarcasmLiving
A person of unspecified gender walks into a bar ...
7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2021·TweetCaster for Android

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JoJoGizmo
@Lostboyjojo
A person of unspecified gender walks into a bar ...
7:41 AM · Oct 28, 2021·Twitter for Android

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