"Humidity” shouldn’t be confused with “humility.” A joke was posted on Twitter by Nick on August 7, 2013:
“People who use the wrong words sometimes should have the humidity to admit it.”
The joke has been printed on many images. “I think people who use the wrong word should have the humidity to admit it”—with the singular “word”—was posted on Twitter by John Pyrch on March 21, 2018.
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Nick
@NickC46
People who use the wrong words sometimes should have the humidity to admit it.
11:49 AM · Aug 7, 2013·Twitter for iPad
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ξdωin
@Abuga_
That’s so malapropiate RT @NickC46: People who use the wrong words sometimes should have the humidity to admit it.
7:25 AM · Aug 8, 2013·Silver Bird
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Marty Fields
@Martyfields
I think people who sometimes use the wrong words should have the humidity to admit it.
3:58 AM · Mar 13, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
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Lily and Daisy #lilsod #lilbugger
@Greyhounds_PZ
I think people who sometimes use the wrong words should have the humidity to admit it #lilsod
1:08 AM · Mar 14, 2018·TweetDeck
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John Pyrch
@JohnPyrch
“I think people who use the wrong word should have the humidity to admit it”
8:27 AM · Mar 21, 2018·Facebook
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Grandpappy
@grdpappy
I think people who use the wrong word should have the humidity to admit it.
3:11 PM · Aug 23, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
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Barlaam X. Mankiewicz
@djinndj
People who use the wrong word should have the humidity to admit it.
9:02 PM · Aug 31, 2021·TweetDeck
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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