"I like cats, too. Let’s exchange recipes” is a jocular saying that has been printed on T-shirts and bumper stickers. The joke was posted to the newsgroup alt.tasteless.jokes on January 8, 1999.
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
Sayings that should be on buttons…
JD Delancy
1/8/99
I like 16 the best..
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 19:40:24 -0900
From: Tom Creek
Subject: Sayings that should be on buttons…
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16. I like cats, too. Let’s exchange recipes.
Google Groups: alt.games.starcraft
Combo: Devourer and Guardian
Shadowy Paradox
2/10/99
[OT DH-related]
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“hey! i like cats too. want to trade recipes some time?”
Google Groups: alt.fifty-plus.friends
The world’s dumbest recipe
BillB (FL)
2/28/99
(...)
I like cats, too. Let’s exchange recipes.
Google Groups: soc.senior.issues
I like cats too:was Bugman’s Attitude
melmed
12/12/99
anyone want to exchange recipes?
Google Books
Laugh Out Loud:
A Selection of the Finest Internet Humour, Anecdotes and Wisdom
By Vivienne Smithdorf and Vanessa Wilson
Sandton, South Africa: Vsquared
2004
Pg. 192:
I like cats, too. Let’s exchange recipes.
Google Books
Blonde Walks into a Bar:
The 4,000 Most Hilarious, Gut-Busting Gags, One-Liners and Jokes
By Jonathan Swan
Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press
2008
Pg. ?:
I like cats too. Let’s exchange recipes.
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of One-Liners
By Geoff Tibballs
London: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
I like cats, too. Let’s exchange recipes.
Google Books
More How to Ask Silly Questions and Other Nonsense (Second Edition)
By Neven Gibbs
Lulu Press (Lulu.com)
2013
Pg. 42:
I like cats too. Let’s exchange recipes.
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.
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