Many people call a business, only to hear, “Please hold!” “Incontinence Hotline - please hold” is a joke that was posted on the newsgroup rec.arts.theatre.musicals on June 9, 1994.
The joke has been printed on many images.
Google Groups: rec.arts.theatre.musicals
Pop goes the Sondheim
Ted Marcus
6/9/94
(...)
* SLMR 2.1a * “Incontinence Hotline - please hold.”
Google Groups: rec.food.cooking
How long before storing ground beef
Bill Stoneman
4/21/96
(...)
Incontinence Hotline....please hold…
Google Groups: soc.retirement
Incontinence Hotline
Capitalist Pig
1/1/04
Please hold........
Twitter
WeirdRalph
@weirdralph
Hello, you’ve reached the incontinence hotline… Please hold.
10:12 PM · Jun 11, 2009·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
Funnyshit
@ShiTaTwit
Working the urologist’s answering service: “Incontinence hotline, can you please hold”.
2:30 PM · Jul 18, 2010·Twitter Web Client
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/paul99501 July 11, 2017
I called the Incontinence Hotline today…
...they said, “Please Hold.”
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/Robot-Downey-Jr January 1, 2019
“Incontinence hotline. Please hold!”
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/VERBERD July 9, 2020
“Thank you for calling the incontinence hotline...."PLEASE HOLD.”
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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