Electric cars need charges. “I wanted to get an electric car but I found they charged too much” is a pun that was posted on Twitter by C. Erika Lefevre (CAEL) on August 23. 2011. “I would buy an electric car but they charge too much” was posted on Twitter by Gary Miller on April 12, 2018.
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C. Erika Lefevre (CAEL)
@clepsydre
I wanted to get an electric car but I found they charged too much
2:20 PM - 23 Aug 2011
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DavidGArnold
@DavidGArnold
Was going to buy an electric car but they were charging too much.
2:19 AM - 3 Oct 2011
Twitter
C. Erika Lefevre (CAEL)
@clepsydre
I wanted to buy an electric car but found they charged too much.
3:37 AM - 26 Mar 2012
Twitter
C. Erika Lefevre (CAEL)
@clepsydre
I wanted to get an electric car but I found they charged too much.
7:08 AM - 1 Dec 2012
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Oonagh
@Okeating
I’ve been thinking about getting an electric car but I reckon they charge too much.
7:53 AM - 13 Mar 2015
Twitter
TimeStorm
@TimeTravelStorm
Replying to @silentmoviegirl @NBCTimeless and 4 others
I cannot afford a #Timeless Tesla electric car because they CHARGE too much for them.
10:07 PM - 31 Dec 2017
Twitter
Gary Miller
@gazgagman
I would buy an electric car but they charge too much
#badjokethursday
3:46 AM - 12 Apr 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.
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