A boomerang pun was posted on Twitter on October 31, 2009:
“I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day. I knew it would come back to haunt me.”
The ghost joke has been popular around Halloween.
Twitter
Stubby TheHoboDummy
@stubbyhobodummy
I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day.
I knew it would come back to haunt me.
7:28 AM - 31 Oct 2009
Twitter
Nutty Jokes
@nuttyjokes
The other day, I threw a boomerang at a ghost. I knew it would come back to haunt me.
1:57 PM - 9 Mar 2010
Twitter
FunnyOneLiners
@Funnyoneliners
The other day, I threw a boomerang at a ghost. I knew it would come back to haunt me.
RT @nuttyjokes
6:31 PM - 11 Mar 2010
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of Jokes 2
By Geoff Tibballs
London, UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
The other day I threw a boomerang at a ghost. I knew it would come back to haunt me.
22 August 2014, The Daily Mirror (London, UK), “Bet of the Day” by Derek McGovern, pg. 46:
I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day. I knew it would come back to haunt me.
Reddit—Jokes
I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day.
submitted October 16, 2017 by JCarp316
I knew it would come back to haunt me.
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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