"Saturday. The day kids jump out of bed at 6am with all of the energy they claimed they didn’t have all week long” is a jocular saying that has been printed on ecards. “Why is it that Saturdays & Sundays the kids jump out of bed at 6 am yelling for breakfast… and Mondays they’re impossible to wake?” was posted on Twitter on September 14, 2009. “Why is it that my kids jump out of bed early on Saturday? Too tired!!!!!” was posted on Twitter on March 9, 2012.
“Saturday. The day kids jump out of bed like a squirrel on Redbull at 6am with all the energy they claimed they didn’t have all week!” was posted on Twitter on October 12, 2013. “Saturday - the day the kids jump out of bed at 6am with all of the energy they claimed they didn’t have all week long”—with the ecard—was posted on Facebook on December 14, 2013.
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LK
@halfempty_
Why is it that Saturdays & Sundays the kids jump out of bed at 6 am yelling for breakfast… and Mondays they’re impossible to wake?
1:31 AM - 14 Sep 2009
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Colleen Moffatt
@collmoff
Why is it that my kids jump out of bed early on Saturday? Too tired!!!!!
4:18 PM - 9 Mar 2012
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Angie Ward
@AngieWardonline
Saturday. The day kids jump out of bed like a squirrel on Redbull at 6am with all the energy they claimed they didn’t have all week!
10:01 AM - 12 Oct 2013
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Gina Valley
December 14, 2013 ·
Saturday - the day the kids jump out of bed at 6am with all of the energy they claimed they didn’t have all week long.
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Babyhaven.com
@Babyhavencom
Saturday. The day kids jump out of bed at 6am with all of the energy they claimed they didn’t have all week long.
2:41 PM - 12 Apr 2014
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Hacker T Dog
@CBBC_Hacker
SATURDAY:
The day kids jump out of bed at 6am with all the energy they said they never had all week.
#SaturdayMorning
3:44 AM - 11 Feb 2017
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I Love Being A Mom
@llovebeingamom
Saturdays are the days kids jump out of bed at 6am with all the energy they claimed they didn’t have all week long.
6:46 PM - 13 Mar 2018
Twitter
Mom Knows Best
@mother_know
Saturdays are the days kids jump out of bed at 6am with all the energy they claimed they didn’t have all week long.
8:09 PM - 14 Mar 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.
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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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