“Sometimes I watch football holding an xbox controller just to screw with my mums head” was posted on Twitter by sickipediabot on July 2, 2011. The joke is that the speaker pretends that his (or her) video game controller moves the actual football (soccer) players.
The joke has used both Xbox and PlayStation games, and has been played on a mother, a girlfriend and a grandfather. “Sometimes I watch football holding a playstation controller just to screw with my grandpa’s head” was posted on Twitter on December 12, 2012. “Sometimes I watch football holding a PlayStation controller just to screw with girlfriends head” was posted on Twitter on October 25, 2015.
Wikipedia: Xbox
Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. It represents a series of video game consoles developed by Microsoft, with three consoles released in the sixth, seventh, and eighth generations respectively. The brand also represents applications (games), streaming services, and an online service by the name of Xbox Live. The brand was first introduced on November 15, 2001 in the United States, with the launch of the original Xbox console.
Wikipedia: PlayStation
PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション Hepburn: Pureisutēshon, abbreviated as PS) is a gaming brand that consists of four home video game consoles, as well as a media center, an online service, a line of controllers, two handhelds and a phone, as well as multiple magazines. It is created and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment since December 3, 1994, with the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan.
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Woody©
@DavidJEWood
Sometimes I watch football holding an xbox controller just to screw with my mums head
6:10 PM - 2 Jul 2011
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Bogdan Petre
@Petre_Bogdan
☛ Sometimes I watch #football holding an #xbox controller just to screw with my mums head ✔
6:18 PM - 2 Jul 2011 from Chiny, Belgique
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sickipediabot
@sickipediabot
Sometimes I watch football holding an xbox controller just to screw with my mums head
8:13 PM - 2 Jul 2011
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funny humour
@funnyhumour
Sometimes I watch football holding an xbox controller just to screw with my mums head
1:37 AM - 3 Jul 2011
Google Books
5,000 Great One Liners
Compiled by Grant Tucker
London, UK: Biteback Publishing
2012
Pg. ?:
Sometimes I watch football holding an Xbox controller just to screw with my mum’s head.
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Ashish Vadgama
@pwrfnatic
Sometimes I watch football holding the playstation controller just to confuse my mom. 😉
9:51 AM - 20 Aug 2012
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lempuris
@majani_
Sometimes I watch football holding a playstation controller just to screw with my grandpa’s head.
5:17 AM - 12 Dec 2012
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Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
Sometimes I watch football holding a PlayStation controller just to screw with girlfriends head.
7:19 AM - 25 Oct 2015
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Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
Sometimes I watch football holding a PlayStation controller just to screw with girlfriends head.
10:14 AM - 2 Dec 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. 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.
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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