"My daughter wants to be something scary for Halloween this year so I’m making her walk up to each house carrying a school fundraising packet” is a jocular line that was posted on Twitter by Simon Holland on October 8, 2015. Holland reposted the joke on Twitter on October 5, 2016, and again on Twitter on September 25, 2017.
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Simon Holland
@simoncholland
My daughter wants to be something scary for Halloween this year so I’m making her walk up to each house carrying a school fundraising packet
11:16 AM - 8 Oct 2015
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Simon Holland
@simoncholland
My daughter wants to be something scary for Halloween this year so she’s going to carry a school fundraising packet to every door.
9:34 PM - 5 Oct 2016
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Dr. Eager
@Dr_Eager
If your children want to be something scary for Halloween this year, have them carry a school fundraising packet to every door.
3:56 PM - 11 Oct 2016
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Bobby Wesson
@writeousman
My son wants to be something REALLY scary for Halloween. Gonna have him carry a school fundraising packet to ppls door trick-or-treating #bs
9:16 PM - 13 Oct 2016
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Simon Holland
@simoncholland
My daughter wants to be really scary this Halloween so instead of a costume she is going to carry a school fundraising packet to every door.
7:04 AM - 25 Sep 2017
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☆LJ™☆
@Linda77J
#FunnyMomJoke - My daughter wants 2b really scary this Halloween instead of costume going 2 carry school fundraising packet 2 every door.
9:14 AM - 3 Oct 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.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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