“Drinking rum before 10 am makes a you a pirate, not an alcoholic” is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on many images. “Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate not an alcoholic” was posted on Twitter on April 7, 2012. “Drinking rum before noon doesn’t make you an alcoholic. It makes you a pirate!!!” was posted on Twitter on January 31, 2013.
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Kenny D
@KDubMoneyStacks
Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate not an alcoholic #arghhh
7:16 PM - 7 Apr 2012
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Jacob
@jakefessenden
drinking rum before 10am makes you a pirate not an alcoholic
6:46 PM - 22 Apr 2012 from Siesta Key, FL
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Zac Halor
@ZacHalor
Drinking rum during the day doesn’t make you an alcoholic it makes you a pirate.
11:00 PM - 10 Sep 2012
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Chris Turner
@ChrisJTurner78
Drinking rum before noon doesn’t make you an alcoholic. It makes you a pirate!!! Drunk in #Bansko again
3:27 PM - 31 Jan 2013
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Spencer Rall
@SpencerRall
Lets be honest, drinking rum before noon doesn’t make you an alcoholic, it makes you a pirate. #argh #daydrunks
Google Books
The Secret to Hummingbird Cake
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson
2016
By Celeste Fletcher McHale
Pg. 166:
“Besides, drinking rum before ten a.m. doesn’t make you an alcoholic; it makes you a pirate.”
14 January 2016, Lincolnshire Echo (Lincoln, UK), “Is your glass half full or empty on alcohol culture?” by Sam Curtis, pg. 57:
These are postcards for the internet generation, with phrases like: “I only drink on two occasions. When it’s my birthday and when it’s not”, and my own particular favourite: “Drinking rum before 10am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic”.
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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