“I recently came into a large sum of money” is the first line of a Not-Sate-For-Work joke. “I came into some money recently…............fussy bloody shopkeeper wouldn’t take it,reckoned ‘it was all sticky’” was posted on Twitter on November 3, 2009. “I came into some money recently. It got all sticky after that” was posted on Twitter on December 30, 2010.
Sometimes a wallet is mentioned in the joke. “I came into some money recently and now my wallet’s sticky and i’m banned from the bank” was posted on Twitter on December 24, 2012. “Gf: why is your wallet so sticky? Me: oh, I recently came into some money” was posted on Twitter on April 8, 2016.
Twitter
I am just me
@oxofamilydad
I came into some money recently…............fussy bloody shopkeeper wouldn’t take it,reckoned “it was all sticky”
1:41 PM - 3 Nov 2009
Twitter
John Black
@johnblackmusic
I came into some money recently. It got all sticky after that.
8:10 AM - 30 Dec 2010
Twitter
RealNiggaTalkingSTFU
@BoyShutUp
I Came Into A Lot Of Money Once, It Got Really Sticky!
12:10 PM - 2 Sep 2011
Twitter
Dustpan
@Sam_walls
I came into some money recently and now my wallet’s sticky and i’m banned from the bank.
4:26 PM - 24 Dec 2012
Twitter
‘the tweets account’
@egg_dog
Gf: why is your wallet so sticky?
Me: oh, I recently came into some money
8:03 AM - 8 Apr 2016
Twitter
🐿 Alec Owen 🐿
@alecowen
I recently came into some money and now it’s all sticky.
2:17 PM - 9 Jan 2017
Twitter
‘the tweets account’
@egg_dog
Gf: why is my wallet sticky?
Me: I recently came into some money
6:34 PM - 20 Apr 2017
Reddit—Jokes
I recently came into a large sum of money.
submitted May 14, 2017 by Issues420916
Now it’s all sticky and no one will accept it.
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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