A husband’s joke about a wife’s cooking was posted on Twitter on July 31, 2016:
“My wife asked if she could have a little peace and quiet while she cooked dinner. So I took the battery out of the smoke detector..!!”
The joke has been printed on several images.
Twitter
Terence Hodkinson
@erichoko96
#My wife asked if she could have a little peace and quiet
while she cooked dinner.
So I took the battery out of the smoke detector..!!..
6:38 AM - 31 Jul 2016
Twitter
Funny Stuff
@BadTasteTee
My wife asked
if she could have a little peace and quiet while she cooked dinner.
So I took the battery out of the smoke detector..!!
12:45 PM - 31 Jul 2016 from Palma, Spain
Twitter
Denis McCarthy
@macca1914
My wife asked if she could have a little peace and quiet
while she cooked dinner.
So I took the battery out of the smoke detector..!!..
9:28 AM - 1 Aug 2016
Twitter
Jokes UK 🔞
@jokesuk
My wife asked if she could have a little peace and quiet while she cooked dinner…
So I took the battery out of the smoke detector!
3:45 PM - 4 Nov 2016
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
My wife asked if she could have a little peace and quiet while she cooked dinner…
So I took the battery out of the smoke detector!
10:44 AM - 23 Nov 2017
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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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