“I’m looking to start up my own business, recycling discarded chewing gum. Just need help getting it off the ground” was posted on Twitter by Sickipedia Official (and many others) on May 10, 2013. The joke originated on the Sickipedia website.
   
The pun is that “Just need help getting it off the ground” can refer to both the startup business and the discarded chewing gum.
   
       
Twitter
Gav
@gavinlayard
I’m looking to start up my own business, recycling discarded chewing gum.
Just need help getting it off the ground.    #Joke
3:32 AM · May 10, 2013
 
Twitter
Sickipedia Official
@sickipedia
I’m looking to start up my own business, recycling discarded chewing gum. Just need help getting it off the ground. http://sickipedia.org/joke/view/1467880
4:09 AM · May 10, 2013
 
Twitter
Print Logic
@PrintLogicUK
I’m starting a new company recycling discarded chewing gum.
I just need some help getting it off the ground. http://ow.ly/1W2ffH
5:19 AM · May 10, 2013
       
Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
I’m looking to start up my own business, recycling discarded chewing gum.
Just need help getting it off the ground.
1:28 PM · May 10, 2013
 
13 May 2013, The Sun (London, UK), pg. 22:
I’m looking to start up my own business, recycling discarded chewing gum. Just need help getting it off the ground.
   
12 June 2013, The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), “No links with home?” by Ken Smith, pg. 13:           
DAFT gag of the week? A reader tells us: “I’m looking to start up my own business, recycling discarded chewing gum.
 
“Just need help getting it off the ground.”
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/madazzahatter May 11, 2018
I’m looking to start up my own business, recycling discarded chewing gum…
I just need help getting it off the ground…
 
Reddit—Jokes   
Posted by u/Senators86 May 24, 2018
I’m thinking about starting a business that recycles discarded chewing gum…
I just need help getting it off the ground.
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Stonekidd1 November 8, 2019
I’m trying to start a chewing gum recycling company…
I just need a little help getting it off the ground.
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/AustralianGroan May 12, 2020
I’m starting a company of recycling chewing gum,
I just need some help to get it off the ground
 
Reddit—Puns   
Posted by u/Cecil_the_wonderdog January 2, 2021
I’m trying to start up my own business, recycling discarded chewing gum.
Just need help getting it off the ground.
 
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/impiousPunster January 22, 2022
I’d like to start a new business recycling discarded chewing gum; I just need a little help getting if off the ground.
 
LaffGafF
Recycled Chewing Gum
January 8, 2023 by laffgaff
I’m starting a new business recycling discarded chewing gum.
I just need some help getting it off the ground.