A hospital joke is:
Stranger: “Excuse me, how do I get to the hospital quickly?”
Me: “Just stand in the middle of the road for a while.”
That is, the person standing in the middle of the road will be hit by a car and—presumably—be taken quickly to a hospital. A slightly different form of the joke was posted on Twitter by ganesh vasupalli on July 10, 2011.
Twitter
ganesh vasupalli
@ganeshvasupalli
!!!!!!
Raghu: How Can I Get To Hospital Quickly?
Ramu: Stand In The Middle Of The Road.....
11:22 PM · Jul 10, 2011·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
jokes and Disses
@jokesAndDisses
Peter:’ How can I get to hospital quickly?’. Smart Alec:’ Stand in the middle of the road.’
2:11 PM · Aug 15, 2012·Twitter for BlackBerry®
Twitter
G-FORCE
@g_force88
Pappu : how can I get to hospital quickly, gappu : stand in the middle of the road
12:08 AM · Nov 28, 2012·Twitter for BlackBerry®
Twitter
Motaz Ibrahim
@7otaz1998
#motaz One said Juha : What is the nearest to the hospital by Juha said : Stand in the middle of the street and you will reach quickly Hahah
12:28 AM · Jul 2, 2015·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
- TREVOR TWIZZY
@TrevorTwizzy
- “Excuse me, how to I get to the Hospital Quickly?”
- “Just Stand in the Middle of the Road for a while”
12:20 PM · Oct 12, 2016·Mobile Web (M2)
Twitter
AX
@SunkenPosiedon
Stranger: Excuse me, how do I get to the hospital quickly?
Me: Just stand in the middle of the road for a while.
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5:42 AM · Nov 22, 2016·Twitter for Android
Reddit—Jokes
u/bot_10 • Jun 5, 2017
Excuse me, how do I get to the hospital quickly?
Just stand in the middle of the road for a while.
Twitter
Nadya Kasyanova
@nadya_kasyanova
Guy came up to me: Excuse me, how do I get to the hospital quickly?
Me: Just stand in the middle of the road for a while.
4:40 PM · Jul 18, 2019·Twitter Web App
Twitter
Teebams 🌠🤡
@iam_bams
Excuse me, how do I get to the hospital quickly?
Just stand in the middle of the road for a while
5:32 PM · Dec 13, 2019·Twitter for Android
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/The_improviser January 25, 2020
Excuse me, how do I get to the hospital quickly?
Just stand in the middle of the road for a while.
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.
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