A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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Entry from March 31, 2018
“I once played horse chestnut fighting with a giantess. She had to stoop to conker”

She Stoops to Conquer (1773) is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. A “conker” is a horse-chestnut.
   
“I’m too old to go chucking sticks at the branches of a horse chestnut tree. That’s why I stoop to conker” was posted on Twitter on September 16, 2011. “Oliver Goldsmith had a double porch that led precipitously to a horse chestnut tree. He called it Sheer Stoops to Conker. #artwiculate” was posted on Twitter on August 29, 2013.
   
“I once played horse chestnut fighting with a giantess. She had to stoop to conker” was posted on Twitter on April 1, 2018.
 
         
Wikipedia: Aesculus hippocastanum
Aesculus hippocastanum is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large deciduous, synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree, commonly known as horse-chestnut or conker tree.
 
Wikipedia: She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have retained its appeal and is regularly performed. The play has been adapted into a film several times, including in 1914 and 1923. Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night.
   
Twitter
Cabaret Speelruim•Heel de aarde is je vaderland
@spielraum
I’m too old to go chucking sticks at the branches of a horse chestnut tree. That’s why I stoop to conker.
5:43 AM - 16 Sep 2011
 
Twitter
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜  ❎
@vbloke
bending down to pick up horse-chestnut seeds. I stoop to conker.
2:00 PM - 20 Sep 2011
     
Twitter 
Sue Walder
@suewalder
Just saw an old lady bend down to pick up a horsechestnut. I thought “She stoops to conker…” *slinks off*
12:06 PM - 7 Oct 2011
   
Twitter
Chris
@cjhancock
A saw a woman bend down to pick up a fallen Horse Chestnut fruit. Ahh, says I… “She Stoops To Conker”....... Nothing.
8:11 AM - 23 Oct 2011
   
Twitter
Tom Wright
@talltomwright
About to watch screening of play about woman bending over to hit chestnuts on string. I’ve never seen She Stoops to Conker before.
9:43 AM - 30 Mar 2012
   
Twitter
Stair at the Sky
@stair71
Oliver Goldsmith had a double porch that led precipitously to a horse chestnut tree. He called it Sheer Stoops to Conker. #artwiculate
1:32 AM - 29 Aug 2013
 
Twitter
Jill Lawless
@JillLawless
Today I bent down, picked up a chestnut and said “She stoops to conker.” There was no audience for this zinger, so I am sharing it with you.
2:28 PM - 12 Oct 2013
 
Twitter
Nicolas Sellens
@PunBoy3
The tall man had problems playing the horse chestnut based game. He had to stoop to conker. #sphour
3:28 PM - 14 Sep 2014
   
Twitter
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@whimworm
My friend will always ascend a small staircase leading to an apartment building before we get out our horse chestnuts. She stoops to conker.
5:22 PM - 6 Dec 2014
 
Twitter
John
@JFD1960
I once played horse chestnut fighting with a giant. He had to stoop to conker
5:51 PM - 17 Aug 2016
   
Twitter
Stuart McLagan
@realspikethedee
I went to see a play last night about a very tall woman who entered a horse chestnut contest against much smaller men. It was called “She stoops to conker.” #1PUN
10:44 AM - 17 Dec 2017
 
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John
@JFD1960
I once played horse chestnut fighting with a giantess. She had to stoop to conker
8:37 AM - 1 Apr 2018

Posted by Barry Popik
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