“Coffee” sounds like “cough-ee.” A riddle has been printed on an image:
Q: What drink has a cold?
A: Cough-ee.
“Joke of the week: What drink has a cold? Cough-ee” was posted on Twitter by Popsicle on August 19, 2009, and was popularized on Popsicle sticks.
Twitter
Kayla Q
@kaylarquinn
What drink has a cold? Cough-ee! Popsicle from babysitting.
8:38 AM - 10 Aug 2009
Twitter
Popsicle®
@Popsicle
Joke of the week: What drink has a cold? Cough-ee. I’ll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitress.
9:14 AM - 19 Aug 2009
Twitter
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@simpliityty
WHAT DRINK HAS A COLD??????????COUGHEE!!!!!!! LOL COFFEE!!! HAHAHAH GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12:38 AM - 17 Dec 2009
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
What should you drink against a cold?
Hauke Reddmann
1/18/10
Coughee.
Twitter
BradShort
@BradShort
Think i just made a joke up. “What should you drink when you have a bad cold” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Coughee . .
9:20 AM - 18 Nov 2010
Twitter
Princeton
@PrincetonPierre
What drink gives you a cold? COUGHee! Be amazed and my well thought up/lame joke!
9:06 PM - 12 Feb 2011
Twitter
Cargo
@polaboi_
What drink has a cold? COUGHee lls
3:36 PM - 28 Jul 2011
Twitter
Noxie Javier
@ilovenoxie
@efm_musicplanet #4 What drink always has a cold?~~~Cough-ee! ^^
11:13 AM - 6 Sep 2011
Facebook
Popsicle Jokes
March 30, 2012 ·
What drink has a cold?
Cough-ee
Reddit—Dad Jokes
What do you drink when you have a cold? (self.dadjokes)
submitted October 25, 2015 by K3lp_Boy
Cough-ee
Google Books
LOL: A Load of Laughs and Jokes for Kids
By Craig Yoe
New York, NY: Little SImon
2017
Pg. 201:
Q: What shouldn’t you drink when you have a cold?
A: Cough-ee.
Reddit—Dad Jokes
What drink always has a cold? (self.dadjokes)
submitted January 12, 2018 by canadiain
Cough-ee
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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