"I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed. I should find a job” is a joke that was posted on Twitter by SickipediaToday on December 29, 2012. The joke originated on the Sickipedia website.
The last, self-deprecating part of the joke—“I should find a job”—is usually left off.
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Sebas
@OhLookBirdies
I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed. I should find a job.
3:02 PM - 29 Dec 2012
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BuRBz 🎤
@Burb3rryb3ats
I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed. I should find a job.
4:48 PM - 29 Dec 2012
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dempsey
@dempsey19
I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed. I should find a job.
4:53 PM - 29 Dec 2012
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Fresh Stand Up
@FreshStandUp
I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed. I should ... http://bit.ly/TQvuIR via @sickipedia
7:06 PM - 29 Dec 2012
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SickipediaToday
@SickipediaToday
I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed. I should find a job.: I u… http://bit.ly/YxCOFG
9:30 PM - 29 Dec 2012
12 March 2015, News Mail Bundaberg (Bundaberg, Queensland), “Last Laugh,” pg. 17:
I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed.
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Bob Kostic
@causticbob
I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed
8:13 AM - 16 Apr 2018
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Beaver
@Followdabeaver
I used to own a Bed and Breakfast. Then I ate the breakfast, and now I just own a bed. #1PUN
2:05 AM - 18 Jul 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.
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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