A joke about working in the circus was posted on Twitter by Jem Brookes on February 11, 2012:
“I’ve given up my job in the circus because it was too difficult to juggle work and family.”
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Jem Brookes
@Jem_Brookes
I’ve given up my job in the circus because it was too difficult to juggle work and family.
3:11 AM - 11 Feb 2012
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hannah 🧚🏼♀️
@hanbradburyxxx
Should work in the circus with the amount of things I have to juggle, a-levels eating a job family social life maintaining mental health
8:06 PM - 12 Mar 2017 from Risley, England
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🤣 The Dad Joke Man 😉
@DadJokeMan
I’ve given up my job in the circus because it was too difficult to juggle work and family.... #WednesdayWit #1Pun
2:21 PM - 7 Mar 2018
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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