"Sometimes I drink water just to surprise my liver” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. “Today I am gonna surprise my liver, I’m gonna drink water!” was cited on Twitter on August 21, 2010.
“Sometimes I drink water to surprise my liver” went viral on Twitter on May 21, 2012.
Twitter
Ana Cabo Ibiza
@Anaroxy33
Today I am gonna surprise my liver, I’m gonna drink water!
1:54 PM - 21 Aug 2010
Twitter
Andy Perry
@andypurry
Sometimes, I surprise my liver: I drink water. LOL
7:33 AM - 3 Aug 2011
Twitter
Phil ΘCHWΛTΔ Odaloh
@Phil_Odaloh
today i’m taking alot of water just to surprise my liver.
#truestory
12:29 PM - 6 Aug 2011
Twitter
Carrie
@CarolFitzmwangi
#TweetOfTheWeek RT @Carmstastic: Sometimes I drink water to surprise my liver.
1:15 PM - 21 May 2012
Google Groups: Dosco Class of 59
FW: Cheers
Lalit Mehra
5/5/13
(...)
Sometimes I drink water to surprise my liver. -Anonymous
Google Books
He Drank, and Saw the Spider:
An Eddie LaCrosse Novel
By Alex Bledsoe
New York, NY: A Tor Book
2014
Pg. 81:
“Why don’t you try drinking water instead?” one of his companions suggested.
“Oh, I do sometimes, just to surprise my liver!”
The two men laughed again.
Google Books
Roadmap into a Twisted Mind
By Bruno Gagnon
Victoria, BC: FriesenPress
2014
Pg. 153:
Sometimes I drink water to surprise my liver.
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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