Waiting for a package is like being in prison, or like being grounded as a child, A joke was posted on the website Sickipedia on December 19, 2017:
As a child: ‘You are grounded. ‘
As an adult: ‘Your package will be delivered between 8 am and 6 pm.’
Sickipedia
As a child:
‘You are grounded. ‘
As an adult:
‘Your package will be delivered between 8 am and 6 pm. ‘
Joke Submited by HairyPutter in Other - Random · 19 Dec 2017 09:59 PM
Twitter
FEETDON’TFAILMENOW!
@yidoyidoyido
As a child:
‘You are grounded. ‘
As an adult:
‘Your package will be delivered between 8 am and 6 pm. ‘
4:32 PM - 19 Dec 2017 (This was probably posted after the above.—ed.)
Twitter
Mark
@Bonkersdj4ever
As a child:
‘You are grounded. ‘
As an adult:
‘Your package will be delivered between 8 am and 6 pm. ‘
2:25 AM - 20 Dec 2017
Twitter
Paul O Keefe
@pokeefe1
As a child:
‘You are grounded. ‘
As an adult:
‘Your package will be delivered between 8 am and 6 pm. ‘
6:30 AM - 23 Dec 2017
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
As a child: “You’re grounded!”
As an adult: “Your package will be delivered today between 7am and 7pm”
1:40 PM - 27 Dec 2017
Twitter
Andrew Cserbakoi
@HungyAndy
As a child: “You’re grounded!”
As an adult: “Your package will be delivered today between 7am and 7pm”
1:57 PM - 27 Dec 2017
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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