“Whatever you do in life, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood” is a jocular aphorism that has been printed on many images. The saying was first posted on Twitter on November 14, 2011, and probably originated on the Sickipedia website.
“If you don’t believe in random sampling, go to the doctor for a blood test, have him take it all” is another saying involving blood.
Twitter
Paul Kelly
@Nobbyfolk
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
#justsaying
5:39 PM - 14 Nov 2011
Twitter
Strong As Meat
@StrongAsMeat
Always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
5:47 PM - 14 Nov 2011
Twitter
🇹🇷 KIᑎG ᗩᖇᗩᑎ 👑
@AranSuleyman
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood!
5:54 PM - 14 Nov 2011 from Bromley, England
Twitter
Graham Martin
@gramartin
Whatever you do always give 100%
Unless your donating blood.
6:22 PM - 14 Nov 2011
Twitter
Kieron
@kieronwilson
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood .. http://www.sickipedia.org/joke/view/1144165 …
8:19 AM - 15 Nov 2011
13 May 2012, The Province (Vancouver, BC), “Morning Briefing” by Bob Krieger, pg. A44:
Bumper sticker, as spotted by Short Rutts blogger Michael Higgins: “Always give 100%, except when donating blood.”
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Greg Heffley
8/7/12
Cheers
- Greg
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you are donating blood!
Google Books
Top Tips a Guide for Life:
Top Tips For Unlocking Your True Self And Becoming the Best You Can
By Sean Purdy
Bloomington, IN: Booktango
2014
Pg. ?:
Whatever you do always give 100%, unless you’re donating blood.
Google Books
From the Outside Looking In:
A Boomer’s Memoir
By R. Winston Carroll
Bloomington, IN” iUniverse
2016
Pg. ?:
Whatever you do, always give 100%, unless you’re donating blood.
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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