A joke about high gas prices was posted on Twitter on June 1, 2011:
“After filling up my gas tank, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways.”
“After filling up my gas tank this morning before work, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways” --slightly different—was posted on Twitter on November 13, 2012. Authorship is uncertain.
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Boogymonsta
@Boogymonsta
After filling up my gas tank, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways.
4:39 PM - 1 Jun 2011
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Jenn
@Jenny_SmaLLs
After filling up my gas tank, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways.
6:52 PM - 1 Jun 2011
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Mandi McCoy Griffin
@MandiMacGriffin
After filling up my gas tank, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyway.
8:10 PM - 1 Jun 2011 from Coppell, TX
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@BadApplexo
Buy a scooter! RT @Silver__Surfer: After filling up my gas tank, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways......
9:56 PM - 1 Jun 2011
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Dr Ki (OBGYN) & CPA
@DrInHiding
After filling up my gas tank this morning before work, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways.
8:56 PM - 13 Nov 2012
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@SarcasmPage
After filling up my gas tank this morning before work, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways.
11:00 PM - 15 Nov 2012
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After filling up my gas tank this morning before work,…
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After filling up my gas tank this morning before work, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways.
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Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
After filling up my gas tank this morning before work, I realized that I didn’t want to eat for the rest of the week anyways.
8:02 AM - 17 Jul 2018
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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