"TGIF” usually stands for “Thank God It’s Friday,” but sometimes—perhaps to remove “God” from the saying—it stands for “Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday.” Friday is usually the last day of the work week.
“Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday” was posted on Twitter on August 26, 2010, and has been printed on an image.
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Kurnianto, Vesa
@Vesa_Kurnianto
TGFI --> Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday
8:07 PM - 26 Aug 2010
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aditi
@aditichauhan
Tremendously
Grateful
It’s
Friday
1:29 PM - 3 Sep 2010
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Drink CLICK
@drinkclick
Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday!!!! How about you???!!! http://fb.me/RGiHjxol
10:08 AM - 28 Jan 2011
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Tzav•vy
@YTzav
Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday
(A “TGIF” image is shown.—ed.)
2:43 AM - 2 Dec 2011
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Gordon E. Marble #ImNotyournegro
@gemarble357
@billmaher Hey Bill this is for you, TGIF! (Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday)..now you can say it..lol
4:58 PM - 20 Jan 2012
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Susan Routledge
@SusanRoutledge1
TGIF means Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday!
7:25 AM - 24 Feb 2017
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Pick A Book Kenya
@PickabookKE
Tremendously Grateful It’s Friday. Spend less....Read more....
#pickabookke
#tgif https://www.instagram.com/p/BgYkcISASXn/
8:21 AM - 16 Mar 2018
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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