"Next week, I’m going on a diet. You can buy me jewelry instead of chocolate” is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. The saying was posted on Twitter on September 27, 2015.
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wheezper
@wheezper
Your GF be like “Next week I’m going on a diet,you can buy me jewelry instead of chocolate” lol
5:19 AM - 27 Sep 2015
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WYCESCHOLAR
@sherikul
Next week I’m going on a diet, you can buy
me jewelry instead of chocolate.
12:40 PM - 27 Sep 2015
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theMAINEMAN
@normaine4ever
Next week I’m going on a diet, you can buy me jewelry instead of chocolate.
#ALDUBmeetsTVJ
1:13 PM - 2 Oct 2015
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Frank Ocean
@ManariFuni
Next week I’m going on a diet, you can buy me
jewelry instead of chocolate.
2:37 AM - 3 Oct 2015
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Shirley Meerson
@ShirleyMeerson
Next week I’m going on a diet, you can buy me jewellery instead of chocolate
#quotes #inspiration #humor
11:35 AM - 20 Nov 2015
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Dan Hughes 🇺🇸 🌎
@DanLHughes1
Next week I’m going on a diet, you can buy me jewelry instead of chocolate. Anonymous #quote
3:14 AM - 27 Jan 2018
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.
Recent entries:
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“Online flirting is all fun and games until someone buys a plane ticket” (5/27)
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“Only in America can you get arrested for feeding the homeless & be sentenced to community service” (5/27)
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“In Texas, the shortest distance between two points is likely under construction” (5/27)
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“New York is the only town where the shortest distance between two points is under construction” (5/27)
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Entry in progress—BP (5/26)
More new entries...
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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