“If you’re running to create electricity, then really you’re making elLEGtricity”

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.

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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Entry from March 08, 2018

“If you’re running to create electricity, then really you’re making elLEGtricity”

“Pedal power” to generate electricity has sometimes been called “elegtricity” (electricity + leg). “E-LEG-tricity. #ReplaceAMovieTitleWithABodyPart” was posted on Twitter on January 19, 2015.

A joke was posted on Twitter by Dad Jokes on March 8, 2018:

“If you’re running to create electricity, then really you’re making elLEGtricity.”

Twitter
Outpost VFX
@outpostvfx
E-LEG-tricity. #ReplaceAMovieTitleWithABodyPart
12:13 PM - 19 Jan 2015

Twitter
Jack Rugile
@jackrugile
@meusPartum The Leglights title is fine and all, but please tell me you at least considered “Elegtricity”.
6:28 PM - 24 May 2015

Twitter
RHP Events
@RHPevents
eLEGtricity - our new #pedalpower fun events.
#energyefficiency at its best!
#sustainable #energy @SEAI_ie @EPAIreland #electricity
5:00 AM - 4 Mar 2017

Twitter
Smoothie Bikes Ire
@smoothiebikeIre
eLEGtricity - human/pedal power to generate electricity Pedal powered fun activations that are unique to RHP Events…https://lnkd.in/dQyCVCN
5:19 AM - 4 Mar 2017

Twitter
dad jokes
@dadtellsjokes
If you’re running to create electricity then really youre making elLEGtricity.
9:15 AM - 9 Mar 2018

Twitter
Unlimited Virals
@UnlimitedVirals
If you’re running to create electricity then really youre making elLEGtricity.
9:17 AM - 9 Mar 2018

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