"When I was older, I used to love playing around with time machines” is a time travel joke that went viral on August 26, 2010. The joke was posted on Twitter this day by sickipediabot (among others), and the joke probably originated on the Sickipedia website.
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@HeresTommy
when i was older, i used to love playing around with time machines
4:40 AM 路 Aug 26, 2010路Twitter Web Client
Twitter
Johnny Rickard III
@JohnnyRickard
when I was older, I used to love playing around with time machines. #bloodyhilariousjoke.
5:06 AM 路 Aug 26, 2010路Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Adam Unwin
@AdamUnwin
When I was older I used to love playing with time machines
5:47 AM 路 Aug 26, 2010路Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
sickipediabot
@sickipediabot
When I was older, I used to love playing around with time machines.
5:23 PM 路 Aug 26, 2010路sickipediabot
Twitter
Seb Kirby
@Seb_Kirby
Gary Delaney: When I was older, I used to love playing around with time machines.
1:10 AM 路 Oct 1, 2015路Hootsuite
Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
When I was older, I used to love playing around with time machines.
8:47 AM 路 Nov 27, 2015路Twitter Web Client
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/VERBERD July 18, 2020
When I was older, I used to love playing around with time machines.
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.
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