"Thanks a melon” (thanks a million & melon) is a saying that has been printed on many images. “Thanks a melon” was posted on the newsgroup rubberstamps on July 1, 1998.
Google Groups: rec.crafts.rubberstamps
Stamps for Sale
Michael Kiang
7/1/98
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thanks a melon 3.75
Google Groups: microsoft.public.msn.discussion
what exactly is a spammer?
Marlya
9/21/00
Thanks A. Melon, no I am not interested in anything like that, just using my own contacts and buyers.
Google Groups: alt.autos.toyota.trucks
FJ 80 Cruiser questions
Kevin Smith
12/14/00
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Thanks a melon.
Twitter
Artfire
@Artfire
Got the thank you cards out yet? Here’s a cute way to say “Thanks a Melon!” http://tinyurl.com/9ua2ot
10:55 AM - 13 Jan 2009
Twitter
New Jersey Family
@njfamilymag
Free “Thanks-a-Melon” pillow: 29 step-by-step photos, pattern, and instructions from YouCanMakeThis.com http://ow.ly/9oHB
8:28 AM - 27 May 2009
Twitter
Jo Palmer
@catreasures
Thanks a Melon Greeting Card Handmade http://tinyurl.com/nslf84 at Bonanzle.
5:36 AM - 19 Aug 2009
Twitter
Joy Tracey
@HappyJoyJoy
Thanks A Melon Cricut Card!: Hi, it’s Joy and today’s Wild Card Wednesday post is a card made from the new Just Be… http://bit.ly/aQrgi4
5:24 AM - 3 Mar 2010
Refinery29
10 Thank You Notes That Get Your Gratitude Across
VENUS WONG
LAST UPDATED JULY 20, 2017, 1:50 PM
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This gorgeous design, including the pun, is the brainchild of illustrator Emma James and calligrapher Bailey Amon.
Anthropologie Thanks A Melon Card, $6, available at Anthropologie
Google Books
Loving Grace
By April Smith
Greenville, SC: Ambassador International
2018
Pg. ?:
“Please consider me, Grace Summer, for Miss Midwest Watermelon Queen. Thanks a melon for your time.”’
Elite Daily
52 Fourth Of July Puns For Instagram Captions, No Matter What You Have Planned
BY RACHEL CHAPMAN
JUNE 21 2018
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11. “Thanks a melon.” — Unknown
Twitter
Dock & Bay
@dock_and_bay
🍉🔆 Thanks a ‘melon’ you guys for all of those Fruity collection orders you’re making just in time for summer 🍉🔆 #sunsoutpunsout
12:38 PM - 19 May 2019
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.
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