"Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet” is a jocular one-line saying about stress that has been printed on several images. “Stress is when you wake up screaming & realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet” was posted on the newsgroup rec.humor on January 23, 1999.
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Sayings that should be on buttons
A Lieberman
1/23/99
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45. Stress is when you wake up screaming & realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.
25 January 1999, Vancouver (BC) Sun, “City limits,” pg. B5:
Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.
24 July 2001, The State (Columbia, SC), “Sarcasm,” pg. D2, col. 1:
Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you weren’t asleep.
20 March 2003, Kinmundy (IL) Express, “Marion County HCE News,” pg 3, col. 2:
“Stress is when you wake up screaming—and realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.”
Twitter
Pam
@pamibe
Stress is when you wake up screaming and suddenly realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.
1:37 PM - 9 Jan 2008
Twitter
Carrie
@Kes13
Stress is when you wake up screaming only to realize that you haven’t fallen asleep yet.
4:48 PM - 6 May 2008
Google Books
5,000 Great One Liners
Compiled by Grant Tucker
London, UK: Biteback Publishng
2012
Pg. ?:
Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you haven’t fallen asleep yet.
Google Books
Laugh with Moe
By Moe Barnard
Bookbaby
2014
Pg. 20:
Stress is when you wake up screaming & you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.
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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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