"If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini, it ain’t worth fixing” is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on several images. “If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini, it isn’t worth fixing!” was posted on Twitter on May 10, 2009.
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Nina Madeleine 📎
@ninamadeleine
If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini, it isn’t worth fixing!
2:25 PM - 10 May 2009
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Megan Campbell
@_Megan_Marie
OH: If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini it ain’t worth fixing.
11:32 AM - 12 Jun 2009
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Martina Schell
@polaroidgrrl
If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini it ain’t worth fixing!
3:13 AM - 28 Aug 2009
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If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini; it…
December 8, 2013 Misc. Status Updates
If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini; it ain’t worth fixing.
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Señor Frog’s Puerto Rico
February 3, 2014 ·
If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini; it ain’t worth fixing. #froglosophy
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Commoner&Co.
November 23, 2016 ·
“If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini, it’s not worth fixing”. #commonerandco
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Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
If you can’t fix it with duct tape or a martini; it ain’t worth fixing.
7:23 PM - 25 Feb 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.
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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