"Drink ‘til she’s cute, but stop before the wedding” is a jocular one-liner that has been printed on T-shirts. The saying was posted in the newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.misc on June 17, 1997.
“Drink until he’s cute, but stop before the wedding” was posted in the newsgroup alt.tasteless.jokes on December 3, 1997.
Google Groups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
how to read w’95 extension with amiga dos?
Greg Tallent
6/17/97
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Drink ‘til she’s cute, but stop before the wedding
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
one liners
Michael A Lewis
12/3/97
>If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
>Drink until he’s cute, but stop before the wedding.
Google Groups: alt.tv.highlander
((Off-Topic)) One-Liners
Stacy
12/14/97
*LOL* Something else interesting that I found today!!
Stephen Wright one-liners
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm
Drink ‘til she’s cute, but stop before the wedding
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
One Liners
Van
10/10/99
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm
Drink ‘till she’s cute, but stop before the wedding
Google Books
The Internet:
Just When You Thought It Was Safe
By B. Bryan Patrick
Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing
2002
Pg. 57:
Drink ‘till she’s cute, but stop before the wedding.
Google Books
Crazy Sh*t Old People Say
By Geoff Tibballs
London: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2011
Pg. ?:
“Drink till she looks cute, but stop before the wedding.”
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.
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