"I detest being marginalized. I prefer to be lightly buttered” is a jocular one-line saying that was posted on Twitter on September 20, 2011. “Marginalized” sounds a bit like “margarine.”
“Fat people aren’t marginalized. They’re buttered” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on May 13, 2017.
Twitter
Egbert Sukop
@esukop
RT @shelldash: I detest being marginalized. I prefer to be lightly buttered.
8:45 PM - 20 Sep 2011
Twitter
FunnyAne
@ane_26
I detest being marginalized. I prefer to be lightly buttered.
2:30 AM - 7 Jul 2013
Twitter
Kimberly Toureiro
@KitchenSprout
I detest being marginalized. I prefer to be lightly buttered
7:53 PM - 29 Apr 2017
Reddit—Jokes
Fat people aren’t marginalized
submitted May 13, 2017 by stinkbutticus
They’re buttered
Twitter
Living Sarcasm
@SarcasmLiving
Fat people aren’t marginalized
They’re buttered
12:06 AM - 13 May 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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“Online flirting is all fun and games until someone buys a plane ticket” (5/27)
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“In Texas, the shortest distance between two points is likely under construction” (5/27)
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Entry in progress—BP (5/26)
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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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