Is going to school like being unemployed? “Being a student at university is just like being unemployed, except your parents are actually proud of you for it” was posted on Twitter by Unruly on August 12, 2012. “Going to school is just like being unemployed except my parents are proud of me!! #shitsrunkfirstyearssay” was posted on Twitter by Smitty on September 21, 2012.
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Unruly.
@DuMi_san
Being a student at university is just like being unemployed, except your parents are actually proud of you for it.
2:19 PM - 12 Aug 2012
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Smitty
@smitty_1993
Going to school is just like being unemployed except my parents are proud of me!! #shitsrunkfirstyearssay
9:00 AM - 21 Sep 2012
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OzKat (Sacred Olive Stump) 🏺
@Christie_lover
My friend said to me uni is just like being unemployed, except your parents are proud of you.
1:46 AM - 2 Feb 2013
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K
@TheOnlyKyri
Being at Uni is just like being unemployed but your parents are still proud of you
8:59 PM - 11 Mar 2015
1 June 2015, The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), “Heading here” by Ken Smith, pg.?:
A HILLHEAD reader heard a student on University Avenue say to a pal: “Being at uni is just like being unemployed, although your parents are proud of you.”
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Joey
@jeauxypatton
Graduate school is just like being unemployed, except your parents are proud of you.
9:03 PM - 13 Jul 2015
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Max Smith
@maxsmithh
Being a student is just like being unemployed except your mums proud
2:26 PM - 7 Dec 2015 from Nottingham, England
Reddit—Oneliners
University is just like being unemployed, but your parents are proud of you.
submitted November 29, 2018 by madazzahatter
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.
Recent entries:
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“You can’t leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution” (6/1)
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“You simply cannot leave those who created the problem in chare of the solution!” (6/1)
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“Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier…” (6/1)
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“You can’t just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution” (6/1)
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“If you bring me coffee without having to ask, then I love you” (6/1)
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
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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