The Big Apple
About Archives Categories Index Search
About Archives Categories Index Search

June 7, 2021
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I asked my wife how to turn Alexa off. She said, ‘How about walking through the room naked?’”

Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant AI technology developed by Amazon. A joke involves "turn on" (to excite) and "turn off" (the opposite). "I asked my wife how to turn…

June 7, 2021
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I asked my wife how to turn Alexa off. She told me to start talking about my fantasy football team”

Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant AI technology developed by Amazon. A joke involves "turn on" (to excite) and "turn off" (the opposite). "I asked my wife how to turn…

August 19, 2024
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I avoid Twitter drama by being unpopular”

"I avoid Twitter drama by being unpopular" is a joke that was posted on X/Twitter by Man of Letters on December 17, 2021, and again on X/Twitter on June 20, 2024. The joke implies that…

July 13, 2018
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I bet acting like assholes on the Internet isn’t where we all thought we’d be”

"I bet acting like assholes on the Internet isn't where we all thought we'd be at this point in our lives" is an internet saying that was posted on Twitter by Blisssy on June 8,…

July 16, 2024
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I bet my mom looks at my posts and thinks, ‘I did all I could do’”

"I bet my mom looks at my posts and thinks, 'I did all that I could'" is a social media saying that has been printed on many images.. "I know my mom looking at my posts…

July 16, 2024
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I bet my mom looks at my posts and thinks, ‘I did all that I could’”

"I bet my mom looks at my posts and thinks, 'I did all that I could'" is a social media saying that has been printed on many images.. "I know my mom looking at my posts…

January 30, 2020
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I call myself terms and conditions because y’all keep ignoring me”

People often ignore reading terms and conditions. "RT @Abbyglasby: Being ignored so much I call myself Terms & Conditions" was posted on Twitter by سارة on October 3, 2012.…

November 24, 2010
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody”

Longtime New York (NY) World editor Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) said at a December 1950 dinner in his honor, as reported by Leonard Lyons: "Swope responded thus: He said that from the…

December 22, 2024
Food/DrinkMedia/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I can no longer read Charlie Brown comic strips due to my Peanuts allergy”

Peanuts is a syndicated comic strip that was published from 1950 to 2000. Some Peanuts television holiday specials featured the Charlie Brown and Snoopy characters. Peanuts has nothing to do with a…

December 9, 2017
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I can only sleep on stacks of old magazines. I’ve got back issues”

There have been several magazine puns on the term "back issues." "Did you hear about the woman who kept hurting herself lifting her boxes of old magazines? She had a lot of back…

December 22, 2017
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I can still remember a time when I knew more than my phone”

"I can still remember a time when I knew more than my phone" -- referring to the days before smartphones -- is a one-line saying that has been printed on several images.…

November 7, 2025
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I can’t tell if the world is getting worse or we can just hear all the stupid people now”

Social media has allowed people's voices to be heard who hadn't been heard before. This is not always a good thing. This jocular comment was posted on X/Twitter and Bluesky by Mike…

April 6, 2018
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I can’t see an end, I have no control… Time for a new keyboard”

"I can’t see an end. I have no control and I don’t think there’s any escape - I don’t even have a home anymore. Time for a new keyboard" is a computer keyboard joke that was…

June 10, 2017
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I changed my password to ‘incorrect.’ When I forget, it will tell me, ‘Your password is incorrect’”

"I changed my password to 'incorrect.' So that whenever I forget, it will tell me, 'Your password is incorrect'" is a jocular computer saying that has been printed on…

December 24, 2017
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I changed the name of my hard drive to ‘that thang’” (joke)

A computer joke was posted on Twitter on October 13, 2010: "I changed the name of my hard drive to 'that thang', so once a month, my computer asks me if i wanna back that that thang…

February 9, 2020
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I consider page 2 of Google results the dark web”

What is the dark web? It's a mysterious part of the web that is not indexed. However, to many, the dark web is Google search page two (where they never go). "I suspect 'the dark…

June 20, 2022
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I correct auto correct more than auto correct corrects me”

"I correct autocorrect more than autocorrect corrects me" is a saying that has been printed on many images. This makes autocorrect mostly useless. "all the timeeee!…

June 20, 2022
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I correct autocorrect more than autocorrect corrects me”

"I correct autocorrect more than autocorrect corrects me" is a saying that has been printed on many images. This makes autocorrect mostly useless. "all the timeeee!…

January 28, 2025
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I crashed my bike in 1983 and scraped my knee. We didn’t have internet then, so I’m telling you now”

"In the 1980s I fell off my bike and hurt my knee. I'm telling you this now because we didn't have social media back then" ia an internet saying that has been printed on many…

December 16, 2024
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“I delete enough status updates to know that I should never get a tattoo”

"I've deleted enough tweets to know that I should never get a tattoo" is a saying meaning that the speaker changes thoughts so often, something permanent (a tattoo on the…

First
Previous
21 22 23 24 25
Next
Last

About the Website and Editor

BARRY POPIK is a contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary of American Regional English, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Yale Book of Quotations and Dictionary of Modern Proverbs. Since 1990 he has also been a regular contributor to Gerald Cohen's Comments on Etymology.

Read more About the Website and Editor
About
Privacy Policy
RSS

© 2026 Barry Popik. All rights reserved.