Workers often mentally fall asleep at some board meetings, prompting the joke:
“Our office just got a new conference table. It sleeps 16.”
“Our office just bought a new conference table. It’s eight feet wide, thirty feet long and sleeps twenty” was credited to American comedy writer Robert Orben in 1972.
Wikipedia: Robert Orben
Robert Orben (born March 4, 1927) is best known as an American professional comedy writer, though he also worked as a speechwriter for Gerald R. Ford and as a magician. He has written multiple books on comedy, mostly collections of gags and “one-liners” originally written for his newsletter, Orben’s Current Comedy, and he has also written books for magicians
30 April 1972, Panama City (FL) News Herald, “Quips & Quotes,” Family Weekly, pg. 27, col. 2:
Our office just bought a new conference table. It’s eight feet wide, thirty feet long and sleeps twenty. -Robert Orben
Google Books
2500 Jokes to Start ‘Em Laughing
By Robert Orben
Garden City, NY: Doubleday
1979
Pg. 130:
We just bought a new conference table. It’s eight feet wide, thirty feet long, and sleeps twenty!
26 June 1997, Waunakee (WI) Tribune, “Pause a Moment,” pg. 5, col. 3:
At our office, we just bought a new conference table. It’s eight feet wide, 20 feet long—and it comfortably sleeps 14.
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Our office just got a new conference table. It sleeps sixteen.
11:58 AM - 26 Jan 2010
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Rahley Cleaning Services
January 27, 2010 ·
Our office just got a new conference table. It sleeps sixteen.
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Foster’s India
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#FostersFunny Our new conference table is 9 feet wide, 30 feet long, and sleeps 20.
9:30 AM - 5 Sep 2012
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newmerica
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We just bought a new conference table that sleeps 7 http://instagram.com/p/k5xn_wth2Z/
8:27 PM - 26 Feb 2014
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James Kurtis
October 3, 2014 at 10:16am ·
Our office just got a new conference table. It sleeps 16.
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.
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