"For christmas I’ve got my wife a telepathic abacus. It’s the thought that counts” is a joke that was posted on Twitter by Robin Flavell on December 20, 2012. “I’ve bought my wife a telepathic abacus. It’s the thought that counts”—without “Christmas”—was posted on Twitter by Robin Flavell on December 18, 2014.
Other abacus jokes include “For Christmas, I bought my wife new beads for her abacus. It’s the little things that count” and “I swallowed an abacus because it’s what’s inside that counts.”
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Robin Flavell
@RobinFlavell
For christmas I’ve got my wife a telepathic abacus. It’s the thought that counts.
12:42 PM - 20 Dec 2012
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illogic_al
@illogic_al
This is a @joemaurits-worthy gift. @jacques_aih: For christmas I’ve got my wife a telepathic abacus. It’s the thought that counts.
6:19 PM - 20 Dec 2012
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Robin Flavell
@RobinFlavell
For christmas I’ve got my wife a telepathic abacus. It’s the thought that counts.
8:30 AM - 4 Dec 2013
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Robin Flavell
@RobinFlavell
I’ve bought my wife a telepathic abacus.
It’s the thought that counts.
4:00 AM - 18 Dec 2014
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Christopher Jobe ن
@sharky67
Pun of the day:
For his birthday, I got my friend a telepathic abacus. It’s the thought that counts.
9:13 AM - 8 Jul 2018
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🤣 The Dad Joke Man 😉
@DadJokeMan
I’ve just got my wife a telepathic abacus for her birthday.
It’s the thought that counts… #1PUN #sillysaturday
7:33 AM - 28 Jul 2018
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.
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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