The Big Apple: “Life is like a jar of jalapeños; What you do today may burn your ass tomorrow”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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Entry from August 23, 2007

“Life is like a jar of jalapeños; What you do today may burn your ass tomorrow”

"Life is like a jar of jalapeños; What you do today may burn you ass tomorrow” is a food proverb, giving a Texas spin to the famous film line in Forrest Gump (1994).

The Yale Book of Quotations
edited by Fred Shapiro
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
2006
Pg. 262 (Film Lines):
[Mrs. Gump, played by Sally Field, speaking:]
Life is like a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you’re goin’ to get.
Forrest Gump (1994). Screenplay by Eric Roth.

Jokes du Jour
Texas Proverb
Life is NOT like a box of chocolates.
Life is like a jar of jalapeños.
What you do today
May burn your ass tomorrow.

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From: “JWald”
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:16:20 -0500
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Subject: Re: stupid question about canada & passports

“Life is like a jar of jalapeños. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.”

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