"Money is a bit tight, so I鈥檓 not buying any apples this #Halloween. That should save me a bob or two...” was posted on Twitter by Derek馃嚭馃嚘 on October 31, 2016. The joke is on “bob” meaning money and “bob” meaning apple bobbing (a popular Halloween activity).
Wiktionary: bob
Noun
bob (plural bob)
1. (Kenya, slang; UK and Australia, historical, dated) A shilling.
2. (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
3. (slang) An unspecified amount of money
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馃嚞馃嚙Derek馃嚭馃嚘
@djspapa
@Ramblintweets Money is a bit tight, so I鈥檓 not buying any apples this #Halloween.
That should save me a bob or two…
4:42 PM 路 Oct 31, 2016路Twitter Web Client
Twitter
馃劙馃劷馃劤馃厛 馃馃徏馃馃徏
@cufc_andy17
Money is a bit tight, so I鈥檓 not buying any apples this #Halloween
That should save me a bob or two…
2:50 PM 路 Oct 31, 2017 from North West, England路Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
andy o’connor
@andyoconnor7
Money is a bit tight, so I’m not buying any apples this Halloween.
That should save me a bob or two.
6:38 AM 路 Oct 25, 2018路Twitter Web Client
Twitter
Paul Eaton
@GannetPaul
Money is a bit tight, so I’m not buying any apples this Halloween.
That should save me a bob or two…
6:02 AM 路 Oct 26, 2019路Twitter for Android
Twitter
Alan Elwell
@elwell_alan
Money is bit tight this Halloween so I鈥檓 not buying
any Apples
That should save me a Bob or two 馃
7:43 AM 路 Oct 26, 2020路Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Kwill馃嚞馃嚙馃彺鬆仹鬆仮鬆仴鬆伄鬆仹鬆伩
@K_will01978
Money is a bit tight, so I’m not buying any apples this Halloween.
That should save me a bob or two…
6:37 AM 路 Oct 30, 2021路Twitter for Android
Twitter
The Dad Joke Man
@DadJokeMan
Money is a bit tight, so I’m not buying any apples this Halloween.
That should save me a bob or two…
#Halloween
2:33 AM 路 Oct 29, 2022路Twitter for iPhone
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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