A joke about work is:
“Can’t wait to get off work—then I can finally stop staring at this damn computer, and go stare at a different computer.”
The line was posted on Twitter by Colin McCormick on October 15, 2010.
Twitter
Colin McCormick
@Colin_McCormick
Can’t wait to get off work—then I can finally stop staring at this damn computer, and go stare at a different computer.
7:40 PM - 15 Oct 2010
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Amat Victoria Curamॐ
@BR_Nation
? RT @ForeverMines Can’t wait to get off work, then I can finally stop staring at this damn computer, and go stare at a different computer.
11:48 PM - 15 Oct 2010
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Ivy Emayaraie
@ivydeathstar
I really can’t wait to get off work already so I can finally stop staring at this damn computer, and go stare at a different computer. FAIL!
1:25 AM - 18 Oct 2010
Funny Status
Can’t wait to get off work, then I can finally stop…
October 22, 2013 Work Status Updates
Can’t wait to get off work, then I can finally stop staring at this damn computer, and go stare at a different computer.
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Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
Can’t wait to get off work, then I can finally stop staring at this damn computer, and go stare at a different computer.
9:29 AM - 29 Mar 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.
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