“Why do only flat animals try to cross the road?” is a jocular question that Harold Ambrose Nuss asked on Twitter on January 24, 2013. “I can’t be the only person who’s noticed that only flat animals cross the road” was cited on Twitter on May 26, 2016.
Twitter
Harold Ambrose Nuss
@cornlog
Why do only flat animals try to cross the road?
10:36 PM - 24 Jan 2013
Twitter
Champion!
@MrBigPickle
Why do only flat animals try to cross the road?
1:13 AM - 25 Jan 2013
Facebook
Grumpy Old Al
November 11, 2015 ·
Why do only flat animals try to cross the road?
Twitter
Mr. Hook™
@Phook75
I can’t be the only person who’s noticed that only flat animals cross the road
9:08 PM - 26 May 2016
Twitter
Donnie Parrett
@Donnie1261
Have you ever noticed that it seems like flat animals are the only one’s that cross the road?
10:30 PM - 27 May 2016
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.
Recent entries:
•“Welcome to growing older. Where all the foods and drinks you’ve loved for years suddenly seem determined to destroy you” (4/17)
•“Date someone who drinks with you instead of complaining that you drink” (4/17)
•“Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing evidence of the truth, but still believing the lie” (4/17)
•“Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing the evidence of the truth, but still believing the lie” (4/17)
•“Government creates the crises so it can ‘rescue’ you with the loss of freedom” (4/17)
More new entries...
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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