“I always start my diet on the same day—tomorrow” is a jocular one-liner about people who never do start a diet. “I always start my diet on the same day: tomorrow” was cited in print in 2010. It’s not known who first said the line.
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hanna kasino
@hkasino
I always start my diet on the same day: tomorrow. (@ Nasi Goreng Kambing Pedurenan w/ @sirico) http://4sq.com/b3tmuF
9:34 AM - 26 May 2010
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I always start my diet on the same day, tomorrow.
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One Man’s Funnies
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011
Always start dieting tomorrow
I always start my diet on the same day ... tomorrow
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true!
@damnitstrue
My diet always starts on the same day: TOMORROW!
7:40 AM - 23 Dec 2011
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@funnyortruth
I always start my diet on the same day… tomorrow!
1:30 PM - 21 Mar 2013
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Her Daily Fitness
@HerDailyFitness
I always start my diet on the same day…. Tomorrow! NOT ANYMORE. START RIGHT NOW.
3:21 PM - 22 Jan 2014
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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