"You know those orange cones they put on the highway for you to knock down. I just beat my high score” is a joke that has been printed on many images. The “traffic cone” joke was posted on Twitter by “rodney” on August 11, 2010.
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rodney
@rodney_at_large
You know those orange cones they put on the highway for you to knock down.
I just beat my high score.
4:21 PM - 11 Aug 2010
Twitter
James Erik McMurry
@james_mcmurry
You know those orange cones they put on the highway for you to knock down.
I just beat my high score.
4:23 PM - 11 Aug 2010
Twitter
Men’s Humor
@MensHumor
You know those orange cones they put on the highway for you to knock down? I just beat my high score!
7:30 AM - 11 Jul 2012
13 August 2012, The Spectrum (St. George, UT), “Facebook is full of wisdom” by John Carter, pg. 2:
My final pieces of Facebook advice: “You know those orange cones they put on the highway for you to knock down? I just beat my high score!”
Twitter
Not Will Ferrell
@itsWillyFerrell
You know those orange cones they put on the highway for you to knock down?
I just beat my high score.
5:00 PM - 21 Apr 2013
Joke All You Can
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014
You know those orange cones they put on the highway for you to knock down? I just beat my high score last night!
Twitter
FillWerrel
@FillWerreI
You know those orange cones they put on the highway for you to knock down, I just beat my high score.
12:35 PM - 22 Oct 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.
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“You can’t leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution” (6/1)
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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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