A riddle about the Thanksgiving table is:
Q: What’s the sleepiest thing at the Thanksgiving table?
A: Nap-kins.
The riddle has been cited in print since at least 2006.
Brownielocks—Thanksgiving Jokes and Riddles, etc. (November 17, 2006)
22. What’s the sleepiest thing at the Thanksgiving table?
NAP-kins
Twitter
Big Meech ✊🏿 🇵🇷
@VersacePapi
What is the sleepiest thing at a #thanksgiving table??........Nap-Kins...kids be funny a shit lol
4:47 PM - 25 Nov 2010
Google Books
The Happy Classroom:
From Ha-Ha to A-Ha
By Janet Aaker Smith
Marion, IL: Pieces of Learning
2011
Pg. 87:
What’s the sleepiest thing at the Thanksgiving table?
Nap-kins.
Twitter
Bill Helton
@7colonel7
Corny joke...What is the sleepiest thing on THANKSGIVING? Nap kins!
6:01 PM - 21 Nov 2011
Twitter
oasiskzoo
@oasiskzoo
What’s the sleepiest thing at the Thanksgiving Table? Nap-kins
10:40 AM - 23 Nov 2011
Mom Junction
90 Funny Thanksgiving Day Jokes For Kids
ARSHI ON NOVEMBER 3, 2015
(...)
Joke 76:
Q. What’s the sleepiest thing at Thanksgiving dinner?
A. The nap-kins!
Google Books
The Super, Epic, Mega Joke Book for Kids
By Whee Winn
Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderkidz
2016
Pg. ?:
What’s the sleepiest thing at Thanksgiving dinner?
The napkins.
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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