"Nut” can mean a food, but it can also mean a crazy person. A joke is:
“Could you take a couple steps back. I have a nut allergy.”
The “nut” pun was posted on Twitter by “A Human Being” on September 9, 2015.
Twitter
A Human Being
@dhumann
“Could you take a couple steps back. I have a nut allergy.”
10:49 PM - 9 Sep 2015
Twitter
pbnj218
@pbnj218
RT @dhumann: “Could you take a couple steps back. I have a nut allergy.” ....The exact words I said to my first boyfriend
3:36 PM - 20 Sep 2015
Twitter
Frank Harvie
@g0lg0thaza
I hear this all the time… : “Could you take a couple steps back. I have a nut allergy.”
11:50 PM - 20 Sep 2015
Bangalore (India) Mirror
WORD OF THE DAY: 28TH SEP, 2015
Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Updated: Sep 27, 2015, 08.36 PM IST
(...)
* Could you take a couple steps back. I have a nut allergy.
Twitter
Chetan Bhakt
@ChetanBhakt
“Could you take a couple steps back. I have a nut allergy.”
12:43 PM - 17 Apr 2017
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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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