“I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. Authorship is unknown.
“I like asking kids what they want to do when they grow up…. because I’m still looking for ideas myself” was posted on Twitter by Joe Estadt on March 1, 2010. “Quote of the day: ‘I ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas.’ - Unknown” was posted on Twitter on May 25, 2010.
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Joe Estadt
@JPE616
I like asking kids what they want to do when they grow up…. because I’m still looking for ideas myself.
9:07 AM - 1 Mar 2010
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Robert Ferguson
@emeraldayotte
Quote of the day: “I ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas.” - Unknown
1:36 PM - 25 May 2010
Twitter
Andy
@wandywatson
I love asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up. Because I’m still looking for ideas.
5:13 AM - 4 Nov 2010
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🌸 Ellie ❄️
@EllieM72
I keep asking my girls what they want to do when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas. #usguys
7:21 AM - 12 Jan 2011
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I Like to Quote
@iliketoquote
I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas. http://www.iliketoquote.com/
4:43 AM - 11 Oct 2011
Google Books
Of Wit N Humour
Compiled by Vincent Thnay
Lulu Press (Lulu.com)
2015
Pg. ?:
I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas. Unknown
Google Groups: alt.support.loneliness
can you think of the oldest, and most insipid jokes…
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I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas.
Google Books
Best Job Ever!:
Rethink Your Career, Redefine Rich, Revolutionize Your Life
By Dr. CK Bray
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2016
Pg. 113:
I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas. —Unknown
28 November 2016, The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia), “The Last Word” by Marty Smith, pg. 20:
From the website LeFunny.net: “I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas.”
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NMU Career Services
@NMUCareerServic
“I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas.” Relatable? What did you want to be when you were a kid? Answers in our office include a teacher, singer, and fashion designer.
2:40 PM - 1 Jun 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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