People sometimes need a few extra minutes in the morning to prepare for the day. A joke about this was posted on Twitter by Roshan Patel on November 28, 2022, and received about half a million likes:
“Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.”
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Roshan Patel
@roshanpateI
Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.
12:19 PM · Nov 28, 2022
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Kalfin
@Kalfinn_
Life hack: give yourself 12-16 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day
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Roshan Patel
@roshanpateI
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Nov 28, 2022
Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.
10:51 PM · Nov 28, 2022
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Shower Thoughts
@TheWeirdWorld
Life hack: Give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.
4:32 PM · Dec 2, 2022
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sueco
@suecothechild
give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day
10:28 PM · Dec 10, 2022
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Maliha Faizullah
@MalihaFaizullah
Life hack: Give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.
4:36 PM · Jan 11, 2023
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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