Everyone knows that all items in a dollar store (or a 99-cent store) cost one dollar (or 99 cents), although very often selected items have different prices. A popular “yo mama joke” (cited in print since at least 1994) is:
“Yo moma’s so stupid, she asked for a price check at the 99 cent store.”
The joke also became a “dumb blonde” joke by the late 1990s. “SHE WAS SO BLONDE...she asked for a price check at the Dollar Store” was cited in print in 1998.
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Yo Mama Jokes
Erick Ramos
7/14/94
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Yo moma’s so stupid, she asked for a price check at the 99 cent store
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Yo Mama
Barry
9/21/95
(...)
Yo mama so stoopid she has to ask for a price check at the 99 cent store.
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LONG: I though THIS group was close…
ALZELT
9/12/98
SHE WAS SO BLONDE.................
(...)
- she asked for a price check at the Dollar Store
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I agree with Henry, Lick Bush in 2000
Tat
3/10/00
(...)
How blond was she ?
She was sooooooooooooooo blonde,
(...)
She asked for a price check at the Dollar Store.
Google Books
Double Dutch
By Sharon M. Draper
New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
2002
Pg. 6:
Randy grinned and yelled back, “No, but I saw your mama there. She’s so backwards, she was askin’ for a price check at the dollar store!”
Google Books
Yo Mama Jokes - 555 Funny Insults: The New And Best Ones:
Illustrated Edition
By Mature Jokemaker Jr.
eins zum anderen Media Verlag GmbH
2014
Pg. ?:
Yo mama is so stupid that she asked for a price check at the dollar store.
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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