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 May 08, 2021
“I really don’t know how fast light travels, but it gets here too early in the morning”

How fast is the speed of light> “A California scientist is experimenting with the measurement of the speed of light. We bet he finds it gets here too early in the mornings” was printed in the Chehalis (WA) Bee-Nugget on June 19, 1931. “It is because light travels with such tremendous speed that it gets here too early in the morning” was printed in the Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette on February 27, 1937.
     
“TODAY’S BEST LAUGH: “We know this about the speed of light—it gets here too early in the morning.”—Mike Connolly” was printed in the syndicated entertainment column by Earl Wilson in the Winona (MN) Daily News on February 6, 1954. “I don’t know how fast does light travel, but it gets here too early in the morning” was posted on Twitter by WSⱯꓛꓤⱯS ꓨNIꓥIꓶ on August 13, 2020.
   
           
Teacher Planet
Science Jokes: Part 2
TEACHER: How fast does light travel?
PUPIL: I don’t know, teacher, but it gets here too early in the morning.
 
Newspapers.com
19 June 1931, Chehalis (WA) Bee-Nugget, pg. 8, col. 3:
A California scientist is experimenting with the measurement of the speed of light. We bet he finds it gets here too early in the mornings.
     
Newspapers.com
27 February 1937, Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, “Flickers” by M. D. R., pg. 12, col. 1:
It is because light travels with such tremendous speed that it gets here too early in the morning.
 
Newspapers.com
6 February 1954, Winona (MN) Daily News, “It Happened Last Night” by Earl Wilson, pg. 4, col. 3:
TODAY’S BEST LAUGH: “We know this about the speed of light—it gets here too early in the morning.”—Mike Connolly.
 
Newspapers.com
1 November 1957, Corvallis (OR) Gazette-Times, pg. 12, col. 4:
CHUCKLE: Friend says only thing he knows about the speed of light is it gets here too early in the morning…
 
Baloo’s Bugle
Volume 12, Issue 6
February 2006 Theme
(...)
How fast does light travel?
(I don’t know, but it gets here too early in the morning.)
 
Tintumon
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010
TEACHER: How fast does light travel?
TINTUMON : I don’t know, teacher, but it gets here too early in the morning.
Posted by jobin sebastian at 11:21 PM
 
Twitter
Col
@countcol
I don’t know how fast light travels.
But, it gets here too early in the morning!
4:08 AM · Apr 23, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/VERBERD July 14, 2020
I really don’t know how fast does light travel, but it gets here too early in the morning.
   
Twitter
WSⱯꓛꓤⱯS ꓨNIꓥIꓶ
@SarcasmLiving
I really don’t know how fast does light travel, but it gets here too early in the morning.
8:40 PM · Jul 14, 2020·TweetCaster for Android
   
Twitter
WSⱯꓛꓤⱯS ꓨNIꓥIꓶ
@SarcasmLiving
I don’t know how fast does light travel, but it gets here too early in the morning.
12:14 AM · Aug 13, 2020·TweetCaster for Android
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/VERBERD May 7, 2021
I have no idea how fast light travels…
But, it gets here too early in the morning.

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