A pun about an abacus (a calculating tool) was posted on Twitter on February 22, 2010:
“People think I’m weird because I swallowed an abacus. It’s what’s inside that counts.”
Other abacus jokes include “For Christmas, I bought my wife new beads for her abacus. It’s the little things that count” and “For Christmas, I’ve got my wife a telepathic abacus. It’s the thought that counts.”
Wikipedia: Abacus
The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system. The exact origin of the abacus is still unknown. Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.
Twitter
LeFonk
@LeFonk
People think I’m weird because I swallowed an Abacus.
It’s what’s inside that counts.
3:00 PM - 22 Feb 2010
Twitter
robthompson
@robthompson
RT @sickipedia: People think I’m weird because I swallowed an Abacus. It’s what’s inside that counts.
4:31 PM - 22 Feb 2010
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of One-Liners
Edited by Geoff Tibballs
London, UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
People think I’m weird because I swallowed an abacus, but it’s what’s inside that counts.
Twitter
Sòmę Gůy
@rdm_guy
I swallowed an abacus. It’s what’s on the inside that counts.
12:06 PM - 2 Mar 2013
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
People think I’m weird because I swallowed an Abacus.
It’s what’s inside that counts.
10:12 AM - 21 Oct 2017
Reddit—Oneliners
People think I’m weird because I swallowed an abacus, but it’s what’s inside that counts.
submitted November 10, 2017 by madazzahatter
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:
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•“Took my own lunch to work and didn’t buy a coffee today so I should be able to afford to buy a house any day now” (5/8)
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t wanna listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
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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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