” I do my best thinking when I’m drinking” is a T-shirt slogan. The saying has been cited in print since at least 2006.
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Chris From Somewhere
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:30 am
Jon has said I do my best thinking when I’m drinking, and even though this certainly isn’t the most original idea:
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tocoso
03-19-2007, 09:29 PM
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Just to let you all know I do my best thinking when I’m drinking.
FanStory
Posted: April 8, 2008
Just an Average Day
Early Morning to Late Evening by Annmuma
(...)
Before long, I’m feeling sweet and mellow
I notice my honey’s quite the fellow.
Pull down the covers, fluff up the pillow:
I do my best thinking when I’m drinking!
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Fantasies and Fare
By Wally Ford
Xlibris Corp
2010
Pg. 56:
Today I wanted to get started early.
I walked to my favorite fishing hole,
On the river to do some thinking.
There was bourbon in the bag I’d brought with me,
Cause I do my best thinking when I’m drinking.
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.
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