“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.
Twitter
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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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.
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