“Do I look like a (freaking/fucking) people person?” is a jocular statement that has been printed on many gift items, such as T-shirts, bumper stickers and posters. The saying is popular with employees who are tired of being asked to solve everyone’s problems.
“Do I look like a freakin’ people person?” has been cited in print since at least 1999 and is of unknown authorship.
“It isn’t that I’m not a people person. It’s just that I’m not a stupid people person” is another “people person” saying.
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Sayings that should be on buttons MILDX
Rene Ferri
1/13/99
(...)
6. Do I look like a freakin’ people person?
3 December 1999, Austin (TX) American-Statesman, “Spam,” pg. H10:
Opening our e-mail this week, we find: An e-mail called “Things you’d love to say at work, but can’t.” And your crybaby whiny-butt opinion would be? Do I look like a people person?
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Yada, Yada, Yada.Com.Org.Edu.Gov.Email:
What I Learned on the WW/Internet
By Joan E. Miller
Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc.
2000
Pg. 22:
Do I look like a people person?
Greenspun.com
Deano (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)), July 14, 2000
Snappy one-liners for the office
(...)
24. Do I look like a people person?
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18 September 2000, New Straits Times (Malaysia), “Look What I Found on the Net,” Life & Times, pg. 8, col. 3:
Do I look like a people person?
New York (NY) Times
Called Up, Red Sox Pitcher Has Tough Debut
By JACK CURRY
Published: August 8, 2009
(...)
The Red Sox wasted a superb start from Josh Beckett. He wore a red T-shirt with the question, “Do I look like a people person?” in the Red Sox clubhouse on Thursday. There was an expletive included to amplify Beckett’s message. His message to the world was to steer away from him. And that was the day before Beckett pitched.
Google Books
The Snark Handbook:
Insult Edition: Comebacks, Taunts, and Effronteries
By Lawrence Dorfman
New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing
2010
Pg. ?:
Do I look like a people person?
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.
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