"I’m just working here until a good fast food job opens up” is a jocular line that has been printed on many gift items, such as T-shirts and bumper stickers. The saying has been cited in print since at least 1999.
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24 August 2001, New Straits Times (Malaysia), “Look What I Found on the Net,” pg. 8, col. 3:
EXPRESSIONS FOR WOMEN ON HIGH STRESS DAYS
10. I’m just working here until a good fast-food job opens up.
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Edinbuggers v. Weegies (and vice versa!;
Weegies v Edinbuggers (and vice versa!)
By Ian Black
Edinburgh: Black & White
2003
Pg. 28:
Badge spotted in one of Glasgow’s fine call centres: ‘I’m just working here until a good fast-food job opens up.’
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Tell Me a Joke, Please:
Humor for the Little Redneck in All of Us
By Randy J. Hartman
Bloomington, IN: iUniverse’
2009
Pg. 63:
I’m just working here until a good fast food job opens up.
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The Biggest Joke Book Ever
By Jack Jacoby
Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing
2012
Pg. 1210:
I’m just working here until a good fast-food job opens up.
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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