"Alcohol...Because sometimes the truth needs a laxative” is a jocular line that was first cited on Twitter on May 30, 2013. The saying has also appeared on a snarkEcard.
Twitter
ShotofCherye
@CheryeDavis
Alcohol...Because sometimes the truth needs a laxative.
7:56 AM - 30 May 2013
Twitter
Oklahoma Cuties
@OklahomaCuties
Alcohol...Because sometimes the truth needs a laxative.
Wakarusa, KS
8:39 PM - 30 May 2013
Twitter
Bæ
@VivMarz
Alcohol...Because sometimes the truth needs a laxative.
1:23 PM - 31 May 2013
The Flirt Shack
Thread: Random Thoughts VOL3
pvtdanceri
10-04-2013 01:13 AM
Alcohol...Because sometimes the truth needs a laxative.
Experience Project
“Alcohol...Because sometimes the truth needs a laxative..”
Asked by midnightstoker - 2 days ago (October 10, 2014—ed.)
Twitter
Dewayne Gatewood
@Deejuanyae
Alcohol...Because sometimes the truth needs a laxative.
11:28 PM - 11 Oct 2014
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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