Websites often have a problem with a “server,” providing the basis of tennis puns. “Just tried to get on the British Tennis Association’s website but they’re having problems with their server” was cited on Twitter on July 29, 2009. “I tried to order some tennis balls off the internet last night but the site kept crashing. Must be having problems with their server” was cited on Twitter on April 7, 2011.
“I’ve made a website for depressed tennis players. The servers are currently down” is a similar joke about tennis “servers.”
Twitter
Tony Cowards
@TonyCowards
Just tried to get on the British Tennis Association’s website but they’re having problems with their server.
8:53 AM - 29 Jul 2009
Twitter
Dave Richardson
@MetaphorSimile
The Lawn Tennis Association’s website has a fault they are having problems with their ‘server’. #tennis #pun
3:53 PM - 1 Jul 2010
Twitter
Savannah Antonia
@Savannah_79
The Wimbledon website is down. Are they are having problems with their server? #tennis #pun #Wimbledon
9:09 PM - 3 Jul 2010
Twitter
Barry McHale
@B_Mac1878
I tried to order some tennis balls off the internet last night but the site kept crashing.
Must be having problems with their server.
7:35 AM - 7 Apr 2011
Liverpool, England
Twitter
Steve
@SweepFan
I tried to order some tennis balls off the internet last night but the site kept crashing. Must be having problems with their server. #Jokes
7:40 AM - 7 Apr 2011
FASAB (Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy)
I Can’t Stand X-Rays. They Go Right Through Me.
October 23, 2014
(...)
I tried to order some tennis balls
off the internet last night
but the site kept crashing.
Must be having problems with their server.
FASAB (Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy)
Old Professors Never Die. They Just Lose Their Faculties.
February 5, 2015
(...)
The Lawn Tennis Association’s website
has a fault they are having
problems with their server.
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.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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