Brushing one’s teeth with toothpaste and then drinking orange juice results in an unpleasant taste, but it’s usually not fatal. “Toothpaste before orange juice equals death” is a one-line saying.
“Insomnia and depression is like toothpaste and orange juice” was posted on Twitter on October 23, 2014. “Depression is to a regular day as toothpaste is to orange juice” was posted on Twitter on April 19, 2017.
“Depression is the toothpaste to the sweet orange juice that is life” was posted on Reddit—Shower Thoughts on September 25, 2017.
Twitter
babysitter
@aeromancy_
Insomnia and depression is like toothpaste and orange juice
7:13 PM - 23 Oct 2014 from Eastleigh, England
Twitter
Derr
@derrreed
Depression and winter are an even worse combination than orange juice and toothpaste.
8:25 PM - 21 Feb 2017
Twitter
Fictional Seviper
@fiction_seviper
Depression is to a regular day as toothpaste is to orange juice.
7:54 PM - 19 Apr 2017
Twitter
nadia
@nadia_3lizabeth
depression and gloomy rain days are like toothpaste and orange juice. i can’t take this shit anymore, guys, i need some sun.
8:41 AM - 8 May 2017
Twitter
Dick Narlton 🦉
@ncarlton69
Depression and stress combined is like orange juice and toothpaste 😒
1:18 AM - 18 Jun 2017 from Pocatello, ID
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Depression is the toothpaste to the sweet orange juice that is life
submitted September 25, 2017 by xxTrafalgarLawxx
Twitter
Shower Thoughts
@atshower
Depression is the toothpaste to the sweet orange juice that is life
7:46 AM - 25 Sep 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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