A snow riddle is:
Q: Why don’t you wear snow boots?
A: Because they’ll melt.
The joke has been cited in print since at least 2003.
11 November 2003, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), “In the end, it’s all about Ahna,” pg. D1:
Why shouldn’t you wear snow boots? Because they’ll melt.
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Morten Stenbaek
@mobitwix
Q: Why don´t you wear snow boots? A: Because they´ll melt.
7:30 AM - 19 Dec 2009
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Eve Taylor
@Taylor_Eve
Q: Why don’t you wear snow boots? A: Because they’ll melt.
11:45 PM - 22 Jan 2010
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Brandy Vanamburg
@Brandytmq
Q: Why don’t you wear snow boots? A: Because they’ll melt.
12:09 AM - 15 Jul 2011
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Jim Chaparas
@JimGC
knows you should never wear Snow Boots because they will melt ...
4:32 PM - 28 Mar 2012
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lorraine Jo King
@LahLahBean
#sillysaturday Why don’t you wear snow boots? Because they’ll melt. ⛄❄😃😊
3:25 AM - 3 Mar 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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