Entry in progress—B.P.
“Curls for the girls” is a similar saying that has been cited in print since at least 1981. Other weightlifting sayings include “benches for the wenches,” “bis for the guys,” “calves for the chavs,” “cuts for the sluts,” “flies for the guys,” “glutes for the sloots” “no pecs, no sex,” “planks for the skanks,” “quads for the broads,” “rows for the hoes,” “squats for the hots,” “squats for the thots,” “squats for the twats,” “traps for the chaps” and “tris for the guys.”
Bodybuilding.com
If we do “curls for the girls” and “tris for the guys”
BrawnySwoleman
06-26-2009, 01:36 PM
Does that mean we do:
squats for the tots
traps for the chaps
calves for the chavs
rows for the hoes
quads for the Todd’s
pecs for the secks
back for the blacks (no racist)
shrugs for the hugs
EDIT:
lats for the brats
Twitter
zaffmoney
@zaffL
Curls for the girls,tris for the guys,squats for the twats,traps for the chaps,rows for the hoes,quads for the broads,lats for the brats
1:11 PM - 12 Jun 2013
Twitter
Jason
@JVirhia
Curls for the gurls
No sex. No pecs
Rows for the Hoes
Shrugs for the Hugs
Lats for the Brats
Quads for the Broads
No Deads no Head
LOOOL
8:03 PM - 10 Nov 2014
Twitter
Tyler Hoel
@samurai_sosa
Curls for the girls 💪🏻
Rows for the hoes 🚣
Lats for the brats 💁
Squats for the thots 🍑
11:22 PM - 4 Jun 2016
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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