A music teacher riddle was posted on Twitter by LITTLE MISS PATATAS on June 18, 2010:
Q: Why was the music teacher angry?
A: Because the kids were always passing notes.
The joke has also been posted in one-liner form. “The music teacher got irritated because her students kept passing notes” was posted on Reddit—Oneliners on October 27, 2019.
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LITTLE MISS PATATAS
@iamjanemariano
Why was the music teacher angry? Because the kids were always passing notes 
6:15 AM · Jun 19, 2010·Twitter Web Client
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@braiinst3w
Why was the music teacher angry?……… The kids were always passing notes xD
7:03 PM · Nov 23, 2011·twicca
Twitter
Holaa.
@Its_All_Jokes
Why was the music teacher angry? The kids were always passing notes.
11:44 PM · Jan 20, 2012·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
laura
@lozsuckss
‘I did a curse once on my music teacher, he chucked me out for passing notes’ ‘what kind of notes?’ ‘B flat and a semi quaver’ Mr.Chuckle♥
10:08 AM · Feb 28, 2012·Twitter for BlackBerry®
Twitter
Book Lab~~
@DarkwolfALA
Replying to @Gage_Panther
Music Teacher: Are you passing notes in class?! >:c
4:23 AM · Aug 22, 2017·Twitter Web Client
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/PulkPush October 27, 2019
The music teacher got irritated because her students kept passing notes.
Twitter
Kids and life hacks
@guys_and
The music teacher got irritated because her students kept passing notes.
12:24 PM · Oct 27, 2019·IFTTT
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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