A joke about time was submitted by Tom Ward to the Edinburgh (Scotland) Festival Fringe in August 2015:
“I usually meet my girlfriend at 12:59 because I like that one-to-one time.”
The one-liner was voted one of the top jokes.
25 August 2015, The Daily Beast (New York, NY), “Britain’s Best Joke Features Germany and a Mobile Phone” by Tom Sykes:
Tom Ward: I usually meet my girlfriend at 12:59 because I like that one-to-one time.
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“I usually meet my girlfriend at 12:59 because I like that one-to-one time” - Tom Ward
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My favourite #FringeFestival “I usually meet my girlfriend at 12:59 because I like that one-to-one time” - #TomWard
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The Scotsman (Scotland)
50 of the best jokes and one-liners from the Edinburgh Fringe Sara Pascoe is appearing at this year’s Fringe and has a number of entries in our top 50.
Published: 13:19 Friday 04 August 2017
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“I usually meet my girlfriend at 12:59 because I like that one-to-one time.” Tom Ward (2015)
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I usually meet my girlfriend at 12:59 because I like that one-to-one time.
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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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