A pun about working as a shoe salesman is:
“I used to be a shoe salesman, but they gave me the boot.”
“I worked in a shoe store, but they gave me the boot” was posted to the newsgroup alt.humor.puns on June 28, 1997.
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Shelley Levine
6/28/97
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I worked in a shoe store, but they gave me the boot.
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Ode For Oooooooooze
Oz
9/23/10
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“I need a job. I used to sell shoes, but they gave me the boot."~~~Nemo
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Chris Ward #72
@CRWard77
Loved working in the shoe shop, but they gave me the boot :(
8:57 AM - 19 Jan 2011
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Ricky Clarke
@YA_RickyClarke
I used to work in a shoe shop. But they gave me the boot.
1:04 PM - 2 Mar 2011
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I used to be a shoe salesman, but they gave me the boot.
6:15 PM - 23 Oct 2012
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I used to be a shoe salesman, till they gave me the boot. #jokes #makemelaugh
11:16 PM - 31 Mar 2017
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.
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