“I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and I don’t want to see you every day” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on the newsgroup comp.sys.mac.misc on November 8, 1996.
“I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and don’t want to see your ugly mug every day” was posted on Twitter by Emogene Toan on December 26, 2013.
Google Groups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Mac OS running under Windows ?
Jim Fitch
11/8/96
(...)
I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and I don’t want to see you every day.
Google Groups: comp.sys.mac.apps
SoftWindows 3 Hangs using CDs
Jim Fitch
1/1/97
(...)
I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and I don’t want to see you every day.
Google Books
Cross (Also Published as Alex Cross)
By James Patterson
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company
2006
Pg. ?:
I heard Captain Moran say, “I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and I don’t want to see you every day.”
Google Books
Ha!
By James Ryan
Dance-A-Runi Press
2011
Pg. 19:
I’d tell you to go to hell but I work there and I don’t want to see you every day.
23 December 2011, The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia), “Mouthing Off” by Marty Smith, pg. 18:
INSIGHT
“I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and don’t want to see you every day.” - T-shirt message
Twitter
Emogene Toan
@EmogeneToan9746
I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and don’t want to see your ugly mug every day
3:33 PM - 26 Dec 2013
Google Books
The Sarcasm Handbook
By Lawrence Dorfman
New York, NY: SKyhorse Publishing
2017
Pg. ?:
“I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and don’t want to see your ugly mug every day.” —UNKNOWN
Twitter
Queen Yoo 👸🏼
@QueenYoo_RP
“I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and don’t want to see your ugly mug every day.”
#WYWSFinale
9:58 AM - 9 Oct 2018
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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