A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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Entry from November 15, 2017
“What did the turkey say to the computer?”/“Google, google!”

Turkeys say “gobble, gobble,” but a modern Thanksgiving riddle is:
 
Q: What did the turkey say to the computer?
A: Google, google!

 
The joke was printed in the newspaper comic The Family Circus, by cartoonist Bill Keane (1922-2011), on November 22, 2006.
 
       
Wikipedia: Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabet’s leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet’s Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google; he replaced Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet.
       
22 November 2006, Lincoln (NE) Journal Star, “The Family Circus” (comic) by Bill Keane, pg. 11C, col. 7:
Boy: WHAT DID THE TURKEY SAY TO HIS COMPUTER?’
GIrl: I DON’T KNOW.
Boy: Google Google Google!
 
Google Groups: alt.online-service.webtv
Updates>>I wasn’t Aware??!!
Jazz_Azz
11/22/06
(...)
Y’all also have a GREAT THANKSGIVING. OH>>>What did the Turkey say on
Thanksgiving???? GOOGLE>GOOGLE GOOGLE>>LOL.
   
16 January 2007, Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution, “News for Kids,” pg. E8:
Q: What did the turkey say to the computer?
A: Google, Google, Google.
—- Sent by Leah Georgia, who is in fifth grade at Harmony Elementary in Buford
     
14 February 2007, Los Angeles (CA) Times, “The Kids’ Reading Room: Jokes & Riddles,” pg. E21:
What did the turkey say to the computer? “Google, google, google.”
Sananda, 11
Porter Middle School
Granada Hills

 
Google Books
January 2008, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 52, col. 1:
Luke: What did the turkey say to the computer?
Will: What?
Luke: “Google, google, google.”
Luke Chollett, College Station, Tex.
 
Twitter
Paswera Label & co.‏
@PasweraLabel
What did the turkey say to the computer?  “Google google google”. Lmao! http://myloc.me/eFV0
12:35 AM - 28 Jul 2009
 
Twitter
Luis Benitez‏
@lbenitez
From my brother:  What does a hi-tech turkey say? .... - - - - “Google Google Google” (via @rawn)
9:19 AM - 25 Nov 2009
 
Twitter
TheRedStoic‏
@TheRedStoic
Q: What did the turkey say to the computer?
A: Google, google! #dailyjoke
12:25 PM - 15 Nov 2017

Posted by Barry Popik
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