"If alcohol can damage your short term memory, just think what alcohol can do”—“alcohol” is repeated because the speaker has had too much to drink—is a jocular saying.
“If alcohol can damage your short term memory,just think what alcohol can do” was posted on Twitter by Howard Cox on February 1, 2017. The saying probably originated on an image.
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Howard Cox
@stillhumane
If alcohol can damage your short term memory,just think what alcohol can do.
2:50 PM · Feb 1, 2017·Twitter Web Client
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RN
@upminster13
If too much alcohol can damage your short term memory, just think what too much alcohol can do.
4:42 PM · Jul 22, 2017 from Romford, London·Twitter for Android
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Just Jokes
@jestjokes
Alcohol.....
("If alcohol can damage your short term memory, just think what alcohol can do” is shown on an image.—ed.)
1:12 PM · Jun 28, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
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Derek (If found, please return to the pub)!
@djspapa
If alcohol can damage your short-term memory, just think about what alcohol can do...!
5:30 PM · Jun 30, 2018·Twitter for Android
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Ronnie Apteker
@ronnieapteker
“If alcohol can damage your short term memory, just think what alcohol can do.”
1:56 PM · Dec 23, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
RN
@upminster13
If alcohol can damage your short term memory,
just think what alcohol can do.
3:53 AM · Sep 16, 2019·Twitter Web App
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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