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Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Bariqhonium January 29, 2015
When you water something, you add water to keep it alive. When you milk something, you take milk away to keep it comfortable.
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/DefinitelyNotATree February 7, 2015
When you “water” something you add water to it, but when you “milk” something you take milk from it.
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/_Comic_ April 16, 2016
To water something, you put water in it. But to milk something, you take the milk from it.
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Monkey64285 October 9, 2017
To water something is to apply water to it while to milk something is to exctract milk from it
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Posted by u/Big-mood-energy February 21, 2021
Watering something adds water, but milking something removes milk.
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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