“You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect and bacon” is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images.
“You don’t just get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect…...and bacon” was posted on Twitter by Insensitive Drew on October 24, 2016. “You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect and bacon” (shown on an image) was posted on Facebook by Robert C Cruickshank on November 2, 2016. The saying probably originated on this image (which appears to come from BaconFun.com).
Twitter
Insensitive Drew
@InsensitiveDrew
You don’t just get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect…...and bacon
1:09 AM 路 Oct 24, 2016路Flamingo for Android
Twitter
Smiley O’Smartypants
@SmlyOSmrtypnts
You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect and #bacon.
4:45 PM 路 Oct 25, 2016路Twitter SMS
Twitter
RB Anthony 馃摨
@RB_Anthony
You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect. And bacon.
5:17 PM 路 Oct 28, 2016路Twitter for iPhone
Facebook
Robert C Cruickshank
November 2, 2016 at 5:41 PM 路
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(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
You don’t get a body
like mine overnight.
It takes years of
moderate
neglect and
bacon.
Twitter
Coach Morgan Randall 馃Б
@TheCoachRandall
You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect, bacon & @dominos pizza
8:42 AM 路 Mar 26, 2017路Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Keagan Fauntleroy
@k_fauntleroy
You don’t get a body like mine overnight! It takes years of moderate neglect..and bacon
12:42 PM 路 Sep 17, 2017路Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
CSM
@usacsmret
You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect and bacon.
12:31 AM 路 Jun 9, 2018路Twitter Web Client
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usedSillyLaughter2
6 nov 2021
You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect and bacon.
Twitter
Annamason
11 aug 2022
You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect and bacon.
Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
You don’t get a body like mine overnight. It takes years of moderate neglect and bacon.
7:35 PM 路 Nov 13, 2022路Twitter Web App
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. 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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