“We never knew he was drunk…until he showed up for work sober” is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on several images. “I think the only way my boss would know I was drunk is if I showed up to work sober” was posted on Twitter on January 13, 2012.
“We never knew he was a drunk till he showed up to work sober” was posted on AskReddit and Twitter on April 15-16, 2012.
Twitter
Chris
@Moldiver42
I think the only way my boss would know I was drunk is if I showed up to work sober.
10:30 AM - 13 Jan 2012
Twitter
Joe Rigby
@Riggleberry
#FreeSpeech my boss realised I’m a drunk when I showed up to work sober - Dean Martin.
4:33 PM - 7 Mar 2012
AskReddit
]Large_McBigHuge April 15, 2012
We never knew he was a drunk till he showed up to work sober.
Twitter
LaQwanda Zulu
@LeTwatter
“We never knew he was a drunk till he showed up to work sober.”
2:26 AM - 16 Apr 2012
Twitter
Sunil Pai
@threepointone
“We never knew he was a drunk till he showed up to work sober.”
more oneliners here - http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sbdq0/what_is_the_best_oneliner_you_know/ …
4:17 AM - 16 Apr 2012
Facebook
NaijaFunny - The funniest stuff coming out of naija
April 16, 2012 ·
I never knew my gateman was a drunk till the day he showed up for work sober
Twitter
OMG One Liners
@omg_oneliners
We never knew he was a drunk… until he showed up to work sober.
3:16 PM - 29 Apr 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.
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