“@brianshelf - I failed my Italics exam with straight As. #fb” is a jocular one-line saying that was posted on Twitter on August 18, 2011. “Failed my italic writing exam with straight ‘A’s” was posted on Twitter by Pundamentalism on July 11, 2013.
Wikipedia: Italic type
In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, italics normally slant slightly to the right. Italics are a way to emphasise key points in a printed text, or when quoting a speaker a way to show which words they stressed. One manual of English usage described italics as “the print equivalent of underlining”.
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Jake Ross
@jakeyross
RT @brianshelf - I failed my Italics exam with straight As. #fb
5:15 AM - 18 Aug 2011
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Pundamentalism
@Pundamentalism
Failed my italic writing exam with straight “A"s.
5:40 AM - 11 Jul 2013
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Pundamentalism
@Pundamentalism
Failed my italic writing exam with straight “A"s.
6:52 AM - 12 Mar 2014
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graham warren
@grahamwarren
Failed my italics exam. Straight As.
3:34 PM - 12 Mar 2014
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Pundamentalism
@Pundamentalism
I failed my italic writing exam with straight “A"s.
5:30 PM - 29 Aug 2014
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@DadJokeMan
I failed my italic writing exam with straight A’s… #sillysaturday
3:41 AM - 14 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. 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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