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 July 12, 2017
“What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?” (lawyer joke)

A lawyer joke is:
 
Q: What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
A: The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside.

   
The joke has been cited in print since at least 2010.
   
     
Twitter
4-fun.biz‏
@fun_jokes_video
#joke What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?: Q: What’s the difference betwe… http://bit.ly/bxZRI6
7:12 PM - 8 Jun 2010
   
CigarBid Forums
Wheelrite
#14 Posted: Wed, Aug 4 2010, 1:32 PM EST
(...)
Q: What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
A: The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside.
 
Twitter
The Boot‏
@bootyisyou
What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside. @rem63489
6:22 PM - 3 Aug 2012
 
12 August 2012, Washington (DC) Post, “Yuks for bucks: Gene revolutionizes panhandling” by Gene Weingarten, WMAG, pg. 29:
What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle? With the vacuum cleaner, the dirt bag’s on the inside.
 
Twitter
Grahame J Healey‏
@grahamejoe2
@JuliaGillard What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside
5:24 AM - 30 Nov 2012
 
Google Books
The Good Wife and Philosophy
Edited by Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Robert Arp
Chicago, IL: Open Court Publishing Company
2013
Pg. 183:
Q: What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
A: The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside.
 
Twitter
CabinBoy‏
@cabinboy100
JIMMY: What’s the diff bt a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle? The vacuum cleaner has a dirtbag on the *inside*!
#BetterCallSaul
9:10 PM - 14 Mar 2016
 
Better Call Saul Transcripts
02x05 - Rebecca
03/15/16 14:14
(...)
What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside.
[Both laugh]
[Chuckles] Aha, lawyer jokes.
 
Reddit—Jokes
What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
submitted March 16, 2016 by incrediblebulk8
The vacuum cleaner has the dirtbag on the inside.
 
Reddit—Jokes
What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner, and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
submitted July 12, 2017 by swingu2
The vacuum cleaner has the dirtbag on the inside.
*For a million-six points… What Netflix show- a spin-off from its famous predecessor- did this joke came from?

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health • Wednesday, July 12, 2017 • Permalink


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