“I don’t get drunk—I get awesome” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many gift items, such as T-shirts, posters and bumper stickers. “I don’t get drunk, I get awesome” has been cited on Twitter since June 6, 2009.
Twitter
Richie Nakano
@linecook
Also overheard: “I don’t get drunk, I get awesome.”. Followed by “What, you guys don’t like Kanye?”
7:39 PM - 6 Jun 09
Facebook
I DON’T GET DRUNK, I GET AWESOME!!!!!!!!
(Joined Facebook on February 18, 2010.—ed.)
Twitter
Joshua
@Joshuaelmes
I don’t get drunk. I get awesome.
2:17 AM - 20 Feb 10
Funny Facebook Fan Pages
Friday, March 12, 2010
i don’t get drunk .. i get AWESOME
Just make sure that other people think that too.
Twitter
Joe
@ISELLTSHIRTS
most popular t-shirt selling right now at http://www.cootiefreetees.com/ is “I DON’T GET DRUNK I GET AWESOME” and get it now with 15% off
3:31 PM - 6 Oct 10
Google Books
Just for Fun
By Erin Nicholas
Cincinnati, OH: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
2012
Pg. 50:
She hadn’t dated a guy who wore a T-shirt that said, I don’t get drunk, I get awesome before.
Google Books
Hilarity Ensues
By Tucker Max
Austin, TX: Blue Heeler Books
Pg. 89:
Tucker “Don’t you worry about me—I don’t get drunk, I get awesome.”
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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