“There was a recent study that tried to pinpoint the effect that alcohol has on walking… the result was staggering” is a jocular one-line saying that was posted on Twitter by sickipediabot on March 3, 2014. The joke was posted on Twitter by Shit Jokes on August 28, 2016, and again on Twitter on December 29, 2017.
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Phil Phillips
@PhilPhillips3rd
a recent study that tried to pinpoint the effect that alcohol has on walking… the result was staggering
1:56 PM - 3 Mar 2014
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kingclean
@torbayclean
There was a recent study that tried to pinpoint the effect that alcohol has on walking… the result was staggering
1:56 PM - 3 Mar 2014
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Mark Smith
@MjsUrko
There was a recent study that tried to pinpoint the effect that alcohol has on walking… the result was staggering.
2:17 PM - 3 Mar 2014
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sickipediabot
@sickipediabot
There was a recent study that tried to pinpoint the effect that alcohol has on walking… the result was staggering
3:17 PM - 3 Mar 2014
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Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
There was a recent study that tried to pinpoint the effect that alcohol has on walking… the result was staggering
5:14 AM - 28 Aug 2016
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Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
There was a recent study that tried to pinpoint the effect that alcohol has on walking…
The result was staggering.
12:00 PM - 29 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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