A cow riddle has been cited in print since at least 2007:
Q: What does a cow ride when his car is broken?
A: A COW-askai MOO-torcycle.
The Kawasaki motorcycle pun has been cited in print since at least 2007.
Wikipedia: Kawasaki Heavy Industries Motorcycle & Engine Company
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Motorcycle & Engine Company (川崎重工業モーターサイクル&エンジンカンパニー) is a division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries that produces motorcycles, ATVs, utility vehicles, jet ski personal watercraft, and general-purpose gasoline engines. Before the 2011 fiscal year it was called Consumer Products & Machinery. Its slogan is “Let the good times roll!”.
Scouting.org (October 2007)
Pg. 8, col. 1:
Q: What does a cow ride when his car is broken?
A: A COW-askai MOO-torcycle.
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Q: What does a cow ride when his car is broken?
A: a COW-askai MOO-torcycle.
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Cow Joke 84
What does a cow ride when his car is broken? A COW-asaki MOO-torcycle!
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Wild-and-Woolly Animal Jokes:
An Untamed Collection of the World’s Best Animal Jokes
By David McLaughlan
Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
2012
Pg. ?:
Q: What does a cow ride when its car is broken?
A: A Cow-asaki moo-torcycle.
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Sensible Nonsense.. Frank’s Comic Pack:
Humour Pack Series
By Frank Paul
BookBaby
2014
Pg. ?:
What does a cow ride when his car is broken? A COW-asaki MOO-torcycle!
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What does a cow ride when his car is broken?
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COW-asaki MOO-torcycle!
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11:40 AM - 9 Feb 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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