A joke about websites and the meaning of “crashing” was posted on Twitter by sickipediabot on February 11, 2011:
“I thought I’d found the perfect website to help me overcome my fear of flying until it crashed.”
Twitter
Andy Davenport
@ukon_davy
I thought I had found the perfect website to help me with my fear of flying, until it crashed.
12:14 PM - 11 Feb 2011
Twitter
sickipediabot
@sickipediabot
I thought I’d found the perfect website to help me overcome my fear of flying until it crashed.
4:04 PM - 11 Feb 2011
Twitter
funny humour
@funnyhumour
I thought I’d found the perfect website to help me overcome my fear of flying until it crashed.
6:50 AM - 12 Feb 2011
Google Books
5,000 Great One Liners
Compiled by Grant Tucker
London, UK: Biteback Publishing Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
I thought I’d found the perfect website to help me overcome my fear of flying – until it crashed.
Twitter
Martin Williams
@Martin1Williams
Found the perfect website to help me overcome my fear of flying until it crashed.
9:45 AM - 17 Jan 2016
Twitter
Martin Williams
@Martin1Williams
Found the perfect website to help me overcome my fear of flying until it crashed.
1:25 PM - 27 Dec 2017
Twitter
John
@JFD1960
I thought I’d found the perfect website to help me overcome my fear of flying.
Then it crashed
5:25 PM - 27 Mar 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.
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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