“Coffee! If you’re not shaking, you need another cup” is a jocular coffee saying that has been printed on many images. “COFFEE! if your not shaking….you need another cup!” was posted on Twitter by Casey Todd on October 7, 2009. The saying probably comes from an image.
Twitter
Casey Todd
@mr_mister216
COFFEE! if your not shaking….you need another cup!
3:29 PM - 7 Oct 2009
Twitter
Dejon Simmons
@dejonsim
Rule #1 of drinking coffee; If you’re not shaking, you need another cup 😊 #thatisall
2:15 PM - 4 Dec 2009
Twitter
Nick Perri
@NickPerri
COFFEE! If you’re not shaking, you need another cup. http://www.twitpic.com/zert6 http://bit.ly/4o6GBX
3:11 PM - 23 Jan 2010
Las Vegas (NV) Weekly
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A second sign reads, “Coffee! If you’re not shaking, you need another cup.” Who am I to disagree? Time for cup No. 2.
Google Groups: cwdum0spkfx
Fiddler’s Elbow Ephemera If You Not Shaking You Need Another Cup of Coffee Kitchen Towel
Schoen
7/13/14
9 October 2014, TCA Regional News (Chicago, IL), “Four Stars: Little Oscar’s on track for hot beef” by Jay Furst:
Oct. 09—I knew we were in the right place when I noticed the kitschy sign, above the pie case and the Arco coffeemaker, that says, “Coffee: If you’re not shaking, you need another cup.”
Google Books
One Cup at a Time:
Finding Coffee, Love, and Happiness
By Debra-Lynn Bellefeuille
Victoria, BC: FriesenPress
2015
Pg. 13:
Coffee: If you are not shaking, You need another cup.
Google Books
A Familiar Tail
By Delia James
New York, NY: Obsidian
2016
Pg. 122:
This morning, his apron read COFFEE: IF YOU’RE NOT SHAKING YOU NEED ANOTHER CUP.
26 May 2016, New York (NY) Times, “A Food Cart That Fills Bellies, and the Coffers at a Queens College” by Elizabeth A. Harris, pg. A19:
There was a Korean Grill and a coffee cart (“If you’re not shaking, you need another cup,” a sign near the bagels read).
Twitter
Kathryn Evans
@TimetoFocus
“If you’re not shaking, you need another cup.” That’s exactly how I like it.
#Coffee #coffeelover #Italy #Parma
7:05 AM - 9 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. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
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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