A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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Entry from November 04, 2017
“Quasimodo walks into a bar…” (bar joke)

“A guy walks into a bar…” is a typical form of what has been called the “bar joke.” A version involving the fictional character Quasimodo is:
 
“Quasimodo walks into a bar and orders a whisky. The bartender asks, ‘Bell’s alright?’ Quasimodo replies, ‘Mind your own fucking business.’”
     
Quasimodo is a bellringer; Bell’s is a brand of blended Scotch whisky. The joke was posted on the newsgroup za.humour on November 18, 1998.
 
 
Wikipedia: Quasimodo
Quasimodo (from Quasimodo Sunday) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo was born with a hunchback and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster, but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death. The role of Quasimodo has been played by many actors in film and stage adaptations, including Lon Chaney, Sr. (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939), as well as Tom Hulce in the 1996 Disney animated adaptation. In 2010, a British researcher found evidence suggesting there was a real-life hunchbacked stone carver who worked at Notre Dame during the same period Victor Hugo was writing the novel and they may have even known each other.
 
Wikipedia: Bell’s whisky
Bell’s is a brand of blended Scotch whisky originally produced by Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd and now owned by Diageo. It is the highest selling whisky in the UK.
     
Google Groups: za.humour
courtesy , Joe Parker.
DuuD
11/18/98
courtesy , Joe Parker.
Quasimodo, walks into a bar and orders a wiskey.
The Barman asks “Bells OK?”
“Mind your own fucking business” says Quasimodo.
 
h2g2
Sad Pub Jokes
Created Aug 6, 1999 | Updated Sep 11, 2002
(...)
Quasimodo walks into a pub and orders a whisky. The barman asks “Bells alright?” to which Quasimodo replies “Mind your own f**king business!!”
 
Google Groups: uk.rec.humour 
Re: Again, stolen…and another
newman
9/13/04
After a hard day in the cathedral tower, Quasimodo walks into a bar and a asks for a whisky.
The barman innocently enquires ‘Bells Ok?’
Quasimodo growls ‘Are you taking the f***ing piss?’
 
Twitter
Joanne Rubino‏
@JoRubino
Replying to @Scouting4Girls
@SFGofficial Quasimodo walks into a bar & orders a whiskey.The bartender asks “Bells alright?”.Quasi replies “Mind your own f*ing business”
12:11 PM - 29 May 2009
 
Twitter
BC Forums‏
@bcforums
Quasimodo: Quasimodo walks into a bar, strolls straight up to the barman and says “I’ll have a whisky please.” .. http://bit.ly/pg3Ji
8:18 AM - 9 Oct 2009
   
Google Books
Jokes for Blokes:
The Ultimate Book of Jokes Not Suitable for Mixed Company

By Llewellyn Dowd and Phil McCracken
London, UK: Ebury Press
2011
Pg. 198:
Quasimodo walks into a bar, strolls straight up to the barman and says, ‘I’ll have a whisky, please.’
The barman says, ‘Bells all right?’
‘Mind your own business.’
   
The hunchblog of Notre Dame
November 4, 2012
A QUASIMODO JOKE
by jess
Quasimodo walks into a bar, strolls straight up to the barman and says, “I’ll have a whisky please.”
 
The barman says, “Bells alright?”
 
Quasimodo replies, “Mind your own business.”
 
(Bells is a brand of Whisky)
   
Reddit—Jokes
Quasimodo walks into a pub
submitted July 3, 2015 by Petew_90
Goes up to the bar and asks for a scotch whiskey. Barman asks “bells alright?” Quasimodo snaps “mind your own fucking business”

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityRestaurants/Bars/Coffeehouses/Food Stores • Saturday, November 04, 2017 • Permalink


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