Some people get to sleep only just before the alarm clock goes off. “Insomnia—the art of falling asleep just as your alarm goes off to start the day” is a jocular definition that has been posted on many tweets. The one-line saying was posted on the website Funny Status on June 17, 2013.
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Insomnia – the art of falling asleep just as your…
June 17, 2013 Misc. Status Updates
Insomnia – the art of falling asleep just as your alarm goes off to start the day.
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Jonathan Tisdall
@GMjtis
Insomnia - the art of falling asleep just as your alarm goes off to start the day.
12:02 AM - 18 Jun 2013
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•PHOTOGK•
@TheSolutionBaba
Insomnia - the art of falling asleep just as your alarm goes off to start the day.
1:20 AM - 18 Jun 2013
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RASHAD ✈️
@MyDickNeedsCPR
#Insomnia - the art of falling asleep just as your alarm goes off to start the day.
1:34 AM - 18 Jun 2013
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The Button Guys
July 10, 2013 ·
Insomnia – the art of falling asleep just as your alarm goes off to start the day. You’re reading this...so you MUST be a master. #amirite?
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Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
Insomnia – the art of falling asleep just as your alarm goes off to start the day.
6:23 PM - 17 Jun 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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