A time riddle is:
Q: What time is is when you sit on a pin?
A: Spring time.
The joke has been cited in print since at least 2009. “What time is it when you sit on a tack?”/“Spring time” has been cited in print since at least 1968.
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Time jokes - 501 Joke: What time is it when you sit on a pin? Spring time. .... http://bit.ly/eRH7R
8:00 AM - 3 Aug 2009
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What time is it when you sit on a pin? Spring time.
4:15 AM - 18 Sep 2009
Google Books
Sensible Nonsense.. Frank’s Comic Pack:
Humour Pack Series
By Frank Paul
BookBaby
2014
Pg. ?:
What time is it when you sit on a pin? Spring time.
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What time is it when you sit on a pin?
Spring time.
5:21 PM - 19 Jun 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. 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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