“Money is a bit tight, so I’m not buying any apples this #Halloween. That should save me a bob or two…” was posted on Twitter by Derek🇺🇦 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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🇬🇧Derek🇺🇦
@djspapa
@Ramblintweets Money is a bit tight, so I’m not buying any apples this #Halloween.
That should save me a bob or two…
4:42 PM · Oct 31, 2016·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
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@cufc_andy17
Money is a bit tight, so I’m not buying any apples this #Halloween
That should save me a bob or two…
2:50 PM · Oct 31, 2017 from North West, England·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 · Oct 25, 2018·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 · Oct 26, 2019·Twitter for Android
Twitter
Alan Elwell
@elwell_alan
Money is bit tight this Halloween so I’m not buying
any Apples
That should save me a Bob or two 🤔
7:43 AM · Oct 26, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Kwill🇬🇧🏴
@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 · Oct 30, 2021·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 · Oct 29, 2022·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. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
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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