"Some days you’re the donut, some days you’re the hole” is a saying that has been printed on a Hallmark card. The saying is the same as “some days you win, some days you lose.”
“Some days, you’re the donut; some days, you’re the hole” was posted on the newsgroup alt.fan.letterman on March 12, 1995.
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Brooke Shields?
Mike Wade
3/12/95
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Some days, you’re the donut; some days, you’re the hole.
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Wendy
**Dalin**
6/9/05
(...)
Life isn’t fair. Some days you’re the donut and some days you’re the hole.
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Peter Sanders
@PeterSandersLA
Some days you’re the donut. Other days you’re the hole.
7:37 PM - 24 Feb 2011
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T Mitchell
@T_Mitchell123
Some days you’re the #doughnut and some days you’re the #hole
4:04 PM - 9 Feb 2012
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Steve B
@that_SteveB_kid
Some days you’re the donut, some days you’re the hole.
10:09 AM - 24 Sep 2016 from Wall, NJ
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milkshakewizard
@ganzneubei
Some days you’re the donut, some days you’re the hole 😁 #TodayIamTheDonut 🎉
8:59 AM - 2 Jun 2017
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.
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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