Toast popping up from a toaster can be startling. “It doesn’t matter how ready you think you are. The toaster will scare you” is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on Twitter on July 10, 2011.
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Khoury Gunz
@KhouryGunz
It doesn’t matter how ready you think you are. The toaster will scare you.
3:21 PM - 10 Jul 2011
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Edwin
@EdStayWinning
It doesn’t matter how ready you think you are. The toaster will scare you.
5:56 PM - 10 Jul 2011
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Chanel
@Eno_Chanel
It doesn’t matter how ready you think you are. The toaster will scare you.
1:20 AM - 11 Jul 2011
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Rhodes
@Rhodes411
It doesn’t matter how ready you think you are, the toaster will scare you.
(A Vine of toast popping up is shown.—ed.)
7:38 PM - 16 Apr 2014
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Dr Tunde Okewale MBE
@UrbnLawyer
It doesn’t matter how ready you think you are. The toaster will scare you. #FridayFeeling
2:08 AM - 2 Jun 2017
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BossLevel8
@Bosslevel8
It doesn’t matter how ready you think you are. The toaster will scare you.
(Toast is shown popping up.—ed.)
6:25 PM - 11 Jul 2017
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Innocent Dad
@InnocenttDad
It doesn’t matter how ready you think you are. The toaster will scare you.
6:28 AM - 30 Dec 2017
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.
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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