"I’m giving up drinking for Lent and giving up Lent for St. Patrick’s Day” is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on several images. The saying was printe on an ecard and “someecards” posted it on Twitter on March 7, 2011.
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someecards
@someecards
I’m giving up drinking for Lent and giving up Lent for St. Patrick’s Day.
4:29 PM - 7 Mar 2011
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Kim Fox
@swimmykimy
AmazingRT @someecards: I’m giving up drinking for Lent and giving up Lent for St. Patrick’s Day.
4:30 PM - 7 Mar 2011
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the sush
@SushGirl
Hahaha!! RT @someecards: I’m giving up drinking for Lent and giving up Lent for St. Patrick’s Day. http://some.ly/fnwHc7
4:31 PM - 7 Mar 2011
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“I’m giving up drinking for Lent but I’m giving up Lent for St. Patrick’s Day.”
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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