"My friends and I experimented with drugs and sex in high school. I was part of the control group” is a popular joke. The control group consists of people who do not get the drugs and sex.
“When I was younger my friends and I experimented with drugs. Fortunately I was always in the control group” was posted on Twitter by Ian Hawkins on January 27, 2011. “My friends and I experimented with sex and drugs when we were in high school. I was the control group” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on October 15, 2018.
Twitter
Ian Hawkins
@SillyMrHawkins
When I was younger my friends and I experimented with drugs. Fortunately I was always in the control group.
6:19 AM - 27 Jan 2011
Twitter
Jonny Morris
@jonnymorris1973
When I was at college me and my friends experimented with drugs. Fortunately I was in the control group.
4:53 AM - 18 Nov 2011
Twitter
Robert Yasumura
@teamyasumura
Whenever someone says they “Experimented with drugs,” I entertain the possibility that they were in the control group.
7:04 PM - 22 Jan 2013
Twitter
Lorrie Goldstein
@sunlorrie
Re Rob Ford telling NBC’s Matt Lauer he ‘experimented’ with drugs a year ago.
Obviously he wasn’t in the control group that got the placebo.
6:56 AM - 26 Feb 2014
Twitter
Garrett Lisi
@garrettlisi
Most of my friends have experimented with recreational drugs. But I decided at a young age that someone needed to be in the control group.
11:47 PM - 28 Apr 2015
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/porichoygupto October 15, 2018
My friends and I experimented with sex and drugs when we were in high school.
I was the control group.
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/porichoygupto January 23, 2019
My wife asked me whether my friends and I experimented with drugs and sex when we were in high school.
I said, “Yes. But I was part of the control group.”
Reddit—3amjokes
Posted by u/porichoygupto July 7, 2019
My friends and I experimented a lot with sex and drugs when we were in high school.
Unfortunately I was part of the control group.
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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.
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