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20-something girl, during candlelight vigil: Popemobile, popemobile, does whatever a popemobile does.
Hyde Park
London
Agriculture student #1: So she starts screaming and I just knew, so I said, "did you search for "hot dog" without using the safety search?"
Agriculture student #2: Oh, no, hot dog without a fig leaf?
Agriculture student #1: Yeah! And you know how she is, so she starts screaming and freaking out. But it wasn't even a human, it was a dog...
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
40-something: No one really knows just what goes into running a chicken farm.
Hebron, Kentucky
Overheard by: Let's Keep It That Way
Customer: Do you have any lox?
Wal-Mart employee: Of course. They're over in hardware.
Customer: No. Lox, like bagels and lox.
Wal-Mart employee: Lots? Lots of bagels?
Customer: I'll just go to Publix.
Wal-Mart
Nashville, Tennessee
Overheard by: Heading for Publix, too.
Cute girl #1: Who's Hattie?
Cute girl #2: What?
Cute girl #1: Why do we have to help her?
Cute girl #2: You mean Haiti?
Cute girl #1: Yes, who is she?
Cute girl #2: You're so cute!
Dural
Australia
Overheard by: Hatter
Dumb blonde: Wait, wasn't Columbus the first president? That's why we have Columbus day!
Professor, calmly: Get out, please.
University of Michigan
Overheard by: getout
50-something female to Native American presenter in elementary school: Is it true that the arrival of whites changed your way of life?
Denver, Colorado
Female student: I came home last night and found my roommate sitting on the kitchen floor, crying and holding a bottle of Jägermeister and a recipe for homemade enchiladas.
Dumb friend: I didn't know you made enchiladas with Jägermeister.
University of Colorado, Boulder
Dopey girl #1: Have you seen the movie Sweet Sixteen? I mean, Sixteen Candles?
Dopey girl #2: Yeah!
Dopey girl #1: Yeah! Oh my god!
High School
La Jolla, California
Overheard by: God
Idiot girl #1: Well, like, Brad is like one of your favorite toys, so you wanna play with him a lot. But Adam is like your most favorite toy, so you wanna play with him all the time! So when Ashley wants to play with him you're all, "Bitch, drop it!"
Idiot girl #2: That is the best analogy.
Guelph
Canadia
High maintenance chick #1: You know, the French quarter at Disney is so much better than this.
High maintenance chick #2: Yeah, right, huh? This place is so dirty!
French Quarter
New Orleans, Louisiana
Overheard by: yeah, that big storm and all...
Private junior high school boy #1: Oh my god, so the other day someone hacked onto my Facebook account and changed everything to gay. My activities were gay, my favorite movies were gay, I was even interested in men!
Private junior high school boy #2, without irony: Dude, that's so gay.
Toronto
Canadia
High school teacher: So they employed guerrilla warfare.
Chick: Wait, seriously? They sent gorillas out into the jungle? Wouldn't that be dangerous?
Vienna, Virginia
Dumb Girl #1: I feel like I'm suffocating!
Dumb girl #2: Why? What's wrong?
Dumb girl #1: It's just too much! There's vagina everywhere!
High School
Genoa, Ohio
Overheard by: Tricia Rae
Blonde ditz: Oh my god, Philadelphia is, like, pockets!
Brunette ditz: I know, right? There are just sooooo many pockets!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: hands in my pockets
Girl #1: No, dude, I never knew New Jersey was in New York!
Girl #2: Yeah... I didn't even know New Jersey was a city!
Shout-out: www.overheardatmcgill.com
Overheard by: Ian
Host to dumb tourist: Would you like to sit inside or in the garden?
Dumb tourist: What's the weather like in the garden?
Host: I'm going to guess that it's the same as outside the front door you just walked through.
Restaurant
Charleston, South Carolina
Overheard by: Crash
Band geek, eating lunch, to friends: I've come to the realization that if I were a woman, I'd have amazing breasts.
Rutgers University
Camden, New Jersey
Overheard by: One time at band camp...
Cute, hungry 20-something: I love menus, they're like porn.
SEPTA Bus
Philadelhia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by:
Airhead #1: Are you cousins with her?
Airhead #2: Not really... her mom and my mom are sisters.
Toronto
Ontario
Canadia
Aspiring fashionista: What if I die today and regret that I never dressed up all the time? But if I worked at Banana Republic, I'd be forced to dress up.
BART Train
Berkeley, California
Overheard by: Kaitlen
Nerd #1 to another: How do you write "dd" in hexadecimal again? I forget...
(they turn to look at fat woman walking by)
Nerd #2: I would not write a dissertation on her boobs. No way.
PATH Train
Hoboken, New Jersey
Overheard by: I wouldn't either
Heathen #1: That's awesome...like Jesus on a stick.
Heathen #2: Haha! Ooh, that's funny because...you know...
Santa Cruz, California
Toolish guy: I don't believe that single consonants should be legitimate prepositions.
Dorm, Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Overheard by: Mary Cait
Blond cocktail waitress, looking at a t-shirt of George Bush and his dad with Dumb and Dumber under photos: Who is that?
Chef: Excuse me! Are you serious?
Blond cocktail waitress (a few seconds later, with dumbfounded look): Ooooooh! Is that our President? Then who is that? (pointing to the photo of Bush Sr)
Chef (grabbing head in agony): Owww!
Lulu's Restaurant
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Ben
American tourist: Why did they put the castle so close to the airport?
Outside Windsor Castle
Windsor
England
(after the rain)
Sorostitute #1, just arriving at her car: Oh my god, someone totally washed my car!
Sorostitute #2: No way! Who do you think it was?
Sorostitute #1: I don't know, but that is so awesome.
Parking Lot, Cal Poly Dorm
San Luis Obispo, California
Professor: There are only going to be 28 questions on this test.
Blonde girl: So, how many points is each question going to be worth?
Professor: Each question will be worth one point.
Blonde girl: Out of how many?
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
Dumb blonde: Like that time we were at that party, and everyone was naked, and it was a surprise party!
State College, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: I bet it was a surprise, all right...
Dumb girl: So what's the difference between when the guy hits the ball and someone catches it and when someone hits the ball and no one catches it?
Boy: Absolutely nothing.
PETCO Park
San Diego, California
Genius cashier: Did they decide on a President yet? You know, the President thing?
North Andover, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Wrote it on my receipt so I wouldn't forget
Girl (reading inspirational quote): "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." (pause) Helen Keller. (to friend) Wasn't she, like, a killer?
Indigo Bookstore
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Sunissa
Woman to friend: You just lift up your shirt, look down, and there it is.
St. Catharine's
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: J Menz
Bimbette, pointing to Che Guevara t-shirt: Jose Cuervo!
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: SP
Teenage girl (matter-of-factly): My sister's friend came over yesterday because it was Memorial Day. You know, because she's a stripper.
Shout-out: feeds.feedburner.com
Overheard by: yeah, that makes total sense...
White mother to teen daughters after black family walks by: I'm so glad you two aren't black! Then I'd have to put all those little beads in your hair and--well I'm just really glad.
Versailles, Kentucky
American chick #1: Ohmigod! Look at those white cows! I've never seen cows like that before!
American chick #2: Maybe they're albino... Or it could be a special British type of cow.
Guy sitting behind them: ... Those are sheep.
Bus, Southern England
Overheard by: pretends to be Canadian
Bimbo #1: Hey I remember you! Oh my god! I haven't seen you in ages!
Bimbo #2: Yeah, I know! I totally stalked you on MySpace!
Sydney
Australia
Preppy brunette on cell: So did you hear? Hillary won the primaries yesterday! [Pause.] Wait, you mean there's more than one?
JMU Bookstore
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Overheard by: baffled
Mid-20s girl: So, I've been a vegetarian for about six years now and I'm trying to phase out all animal products.
Mid-40s woman: Oh, I could never be a vegetarian, I'd die. I like my potatoes too much.
Mid-20s girl: Umm... Potatoes are vegetables.
Mid-40s woman: Yeah, I guess you're right. But I mean like peas and stuff.
Kokomo, Indiana
Overheard by: Justin
Guy #1: What did the bear say when he walked into the bar?
Guy #2: [Blank stare.]
Guy #1: Roarrrr. He's a fucking bear, what else would he say! [Laughs out loud.]
Guy #2: I haven't seen you in two months, and this is what you start with? You are a fucking idiot.
Duluth, Minnesota
Overheard by: Amber
Professor: I thought this was made up, but then I read it in a book, which of course means it?s true.
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
Middle-aged American tourist woman: The rooms here have strange plugs, I simply cannot use my curling iron! This is outrageous... I want to see the manager immediately!
Hotel Restaurant
Munich
Germany
Overheard by: Dru
Chick #1: I miss my car.
Chick #2: I miss my car too. Not like, driving it or anything. But I miss my car. We've been through so much together --four accidents, hitting a mailbox, and a lot of repairs. But I'm not like, a bad driver or anything.
George Washington University
Washington, DC
Woman #1: Where did you go to college?
Woman #2: University of Cape Town.
Woman #1: Oh, is that in Virginia?
Woman #2: No, it's actually in South Africa.
Woman #1: Ohhhh, sorry, I'm bad with geometry.
Woman #2: ...
Woman #1: I mean geology!
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Overheard by: Actually, that was my mom.
Guy #1: How much have you had to drink?
Guy #2: Just beers.
Guy #1: But how many?
Guy #2: Just beers.
Guy #1: Yeah, how many beers have you had?
Guy #2: Yeah.
Guy #1: How many have you had though?
Guy #2: I'm only drinking beers tonight.
Pinehaven
New Zealand
Overheard by: Schmitty
Blonde on cell: We got a nice hotel room for our cat.
Montgomery and California
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Ladle
Girl #1: Hanging out with him on his birthday was so much fun!
Girl #2: Oh, I heard about that! He went to jail, right?
Brooklyn Avenue
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Glad they're not my friends
Gym teacher, during stretches: If you do it this way, it makes it easier and also more challenging.
Henry Wise Wood High School
Calgary
Canadia
Bitter guy: Girls don't care about men, so I can't relate to them. And men only care about sports, food, video games, and women. I do like to eat, but I hate women. I don't like sports at all, and I'm soooo good at video games that other people can't play with me because I am just too awesome.
Girl sitting at the table with him: Yeah...
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
Man, pointing out the window, to his wife: Look, honey, they even have cars!
Shout-out: zipster.wordpress.com
Overheard by: The Zipster
Guy: Yeah, you know that word? Ah, I forget it... Oh yeah, vagina!
Ontario
Canadia
Loud woman: How do you spell 'taxi'?
1801 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, Virginia
Husband to wife showing him Greek Bible: Honey, if English is good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me.
Barnes & Noble
Cincinnati, Ohio
Overheard by: aharon
Guy in crowd evacuated from theater due to fire alarm: This is all a marketing trick... Just watch -- any minute now one of those fire trucks is going to transform!
Transformers showing, AMC Theatre
Paramus, New Jersey
Overheard by: JoBell
Bimbette #1: Wait, is a bird a mammal? I don't think it's a mammal...
Bimbette #2: I think a bird is, like, its own species.
B train
Boston, Massachusetts
Girl #1: I know for a fact this year is going to be way better than last year.
Girl #2: Why's that?
Girl #1: Because this year I actually have designer clothes. Last year I didn?t have any, and I was so unhappy!
Shout-out: www.overheardatmcgill.com
Overheard by:
Health teacher to class: When you become more adult-like, you start to be more like an adult.
Roanoke, Virginia
Teen girl #1: Lemur? What the hell's a lemur?
Teen girl #2: Lemur is French for 'light.' You know, like the candlestick on Beauty and the Beast -- lemur.
Teen girl #1: You're so smart. How do you know this shit?
Teen girl #2: I took two years of French.
Lemur Exhibit, Denver Zoo
Denver, Colorado
Queer en route to Obama rally: Oh my god, he's so cute. Do you think he'll sign my ass for me?
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Overheard by: Rachel Jane
White girl to Asian guy: So... How often is Chinese New Year?
Shout-out: overheardinumcp.blogspot.com
Overheard by: tom
Middle-aged woman: What the fuck is 'W-T-F'?
Exmouth, Devon
United Kingdom
Overheard by: Bernard
Guy to pals: Dude, seriously -- STDs are just Christian propaganda.
Riverbend Music Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Overheard by: robby gigante
Thugette, into phone: How it gon' be warm one day, rain the next, and freezin' the next?
Asian guy: It's called a cold front. Take a science class.
Thugette: I don't need no science, nigga! I got God!
Millersville University
Millersville, Pennsylvania
Sorority girl, crying: I've been working so hard, and I don't feel like I'm being rewarded for it.
Professor: What? What do you mean?
Sorority girl, still crying: I mean, if I work so hard, I'll just die if I don't get an A.
Professor, irritated: Well, it's only four weeks into the semester. Why are you worried about your grade now? I don't guarantee any grades! [Professor leaves.]
Sorority girl, to friend: Damn. I should have saved the tears until at least midterm. Now I'll actually have to do the work. Damn.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Nevada
Father: My kid broke his face today. He tried to do a back flip and kneed himself in the eye.
Friend: It's fine. Kids are like lizards -- they grow stuff back.
Liberty Mutual
Boston, Massachusetts
Professor: I found the same paper that you turned in as your term paper on the Internet, word for word. That's plagiarizing!
Student: All right, I'll tell you the truth -- I didn't have time to write the term paper, so I paid somebody else to do it for me. But honest, I didn't know he'd plagiarize it!
College
New York
Overheard by: DizzyLizzy
Excited blonde: Guess what I'm getting myself for a Valentine's Day present? I'm getting tested for STDs!
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Overheard by: not surprised
Drunk guy to two chicks: I was so tanked last night that I don't know if I shit in my bed or if somebody else shit in my bed as a joke, but someone definitely shit in my bed. It was a pretty good party, though.
dcist.com
Guy #1: If I make a lot of money, I'm gonna hire a dwarf to stand on a stool and help me wash in the shower.
Guy #2: Why couldn't you get a full-sized woman to do that?
Nearby chick: I hope neither of you ever make any money.
Stanford, Connecticut
Movie-goer: It was, like, almost orgasmic... without the orgasm.
Nova Cinema
Carlton, Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: Hayley
Dude: I've been soiling myself for four days playing Guitar Hero.
Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa
Recent college grad: Wait, you mean elephants are mammals?!
York, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: not a mammal either
Dude: Is putting my hand on my balls a sport? Could be.
Subway
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Shaniqua
Dude: So, this Oh-di-pus guy killed his dad and married his mom.
Girl: Gross... So, did they do it?
Dude: Oh, yeah.
Girl: Cool.
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canadia
Overheard by: headshakingprof
Frustrated neighbor: It's only gay if we do it outside a vagina!
Derby, Connecticut
Overheard by: Jess
Man looking at anteaters and monkeys in pen: Wow! I didn't know anteaters were a type of monkey!
Primate House, Denver Zoo
Denver, Colorado
Man in line: They should build a tunnel over the Elizabeth River.
Portsmouth, Virginia
Overheard by: the fly on the wall
Older woman: ... And then she told me that I was too small for my breasts.
Younger man: I think she said, 'Too small for your dress.'
Older woman: ... Either way, it was totally inappropriate.
Shout-out: overheardinthevalley.blogspot.com
Worker, about Administrative Professionals' Day: We don't have administrative professionals here... Just computers.
Shout-out: eavesdropdc.blogspot.com
Guy #1: Let's see Grindhouse.
Guy #2: What's that about?
Guy #1: Jesus.
Shout-out: overheardina2.blogspot.com
Dude #1: You gotta go nucular on them!
Dude #2: It's 'nuclear,' not 'nucular.'
Dude #1: No, you can say either. It's like the difference between saying 'pancakes' and 'flapjacks.' It means the same thing.
Dude #2: Ummm... No.
Shout-out: www.overheardinminneapolis.com
Overheard by: I say
Elementary education major, about first grader: ... And my kid was like, 'I really wanna be a good reader, so I'm gonna read books every day so I get better. Like, Christ, kid, you don't have to try so hard -- you're not getting paid.
University of Delaware
Delaware
Blonde student to astronomy professor: Can you tell me approximately how many stars there are in our solar system?
Wheaton College
Wheaton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Amycakes
Guy #1: Okay, sure -- you can use a transporter to beam your body down to another planet, but what happens to your soul?
Guy #2: Yeah...
Calgary, Alberta
Canadia
Overheard by: Paul Cowling
Guy: Man, if failing was the new pass, I'd be doing so good.
Shout-out: overheardatwestern.blogspot.com
Overheard by: lauren
Vice president: We're all like kind of educated or whatever...
Shout-out: overheardatcornell.blogspot.com
Overheard by: babygirl
Guy: My sister and I are twins, but I was born first.
Woman #1: Do you mean you just came out first?
Guy: Well, see, what happened was I am two years older than my sister. [Everyone stares at each other.]
Woman #2: ... So you and your sister are twins, but she is two years younger?
Guy: Oh, wait, I'm getting confused with another family story. I am two years older than my sister, but I'm pretty sure we're not twins, either.
900 West Valley Road
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Passenger #1 looking at map on screen: Oh, look -- we're over Montana right now.
Passenger #2: Montana's in Canada! Cool!
Over Montana, British Airways flight
Overheard by: Confused Flyer
Middle-aged white lady #1: I think I'm going to buy this for my daughter's boyfriend's parents. You know, because it's oriental and they're oriental.
Middle-aged white lady #2: That is so appropriate!
St. Augustine, Florida
Overheard by: Ruth
Guy #1: Hahaha!
Guy #2: What? What's so funny?
Guy #1: Didn't you see that?
Guy #2: See what?
Guy #1: Turd covered with flies!
Both guys: Hahaha!
Capitol Hill
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: highlarious
Guy trying to solve Rubik's Cube: Once I figure out how to solve this thing, I'm gonna be banging chicks everywhere.
Calgary
Canadia
Man walking through automatic doors: Wow, it's the store of the future. The doors open by themselves!
Louisville, Kentucky
Girl: But Gandhi -- he, like, did so much for the world. He helped humanity.
Guy: Yeah, but we still shouldn't have to write a paragraph about him.
Flint Hall, Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
Overheard by: ears burning
Dude: Hey, let's go find a shark and piss on it!
Navy Pier
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Sean
Dude #1: Hey! Hey! Did you hear? They caught that person who killed those two people!
Dude #2: What?
Dude #1: They caught that person who killed those two people. Or they arrested him, I'm not sure.
Dude #2: Who?
Dude #1: I don't know. I saw it on TV.
Amherst, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Rachel
Dude: So, you're from Austria, huh?
Austrian foreign student: Yes.
Dude: So, like, kangaroos and shit?
Austrian foreign student: No, that's Australia. Austria's in Europe.
Dude: Oh, like Sound of Music?
Austrian foreign student: Yes.
Dude: Like Lederhosen! Fahrvergnügen! Schwarzenegger!
Austrian foreign student: Yes.
Dude: So, do you believe in Hitler? [Austrian walks off.]
Boston, Massachusetts
Girl: I like you and all, but you're married.
Dude: My wife and I have an open marriage.
Girl: Is that would she say if I asked her if we could sleep together?
Dude: Probably not. That's why we're not gonna ask her.
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
High school boy: Damn, this is the part where we go over the ocean! I hate this shit! Every day going over the ocean! Shit!
Yellow Line train crossing the Potomac
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Not afraid of the Potomac
Smoking office lady to others: She gets up on her roof, strips down, and just bakes in the sun. She thinks that just because she goes to the dermatologist once a month she's not going to get cancer. [Takes a long drag] What a retard!
Shout-out: overheardinphilly.blogspot.com
Overheard by: herbie mchebrew
Roommate #1: God! I'm tired of all the gay people in Richmond.
Roommate #2: Yeah, seriously.
Roommate #1: There are so many gay people in my music classes.
Roommate #2: Really?
Roommate #1: Yeah, I'm tired of looking at them and imagining butt sex all the time.
Richmond, Virginia
American tourist #1, approaching Piazza de Michelangelo: Oooh, is that the David? Like, the real David?
American tourist #2: No, that's not the real one. The real one doesn't have arms.
Florence
Italy
Overheard by: Lex
30-ish lady: What grade are you in?
Little girl: Third grade. I can do math problems.
30-ish lady: Okay, well, if you have three dogs, two cats and four fish, how many animals do you have, total?
Little girl: ... Ummm, nine.
30-ish lady: Well, yeah, sort of... If you count fish as animals, but really they're amphibians.
Movie theater
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Overheard by: ak
Woman: You know, I wish I was more superficial.
Shout-out: overheardinpdx.blogspot.com
Overheard by: rich
Lady: Wait, are you telling me that K.D. Lang is a lesbian?! How do you know?!
K.D. Lang/Lyle Lovett concert, Red Rocks Amphitheater
Colorado
Ranting idiot: I mean, what the fuck? We live in the United States. It is 2006. There is no excuse for having fucking rotten teeth. I don't care if she is your sister -- brush your fucking teeth!
Town Hall Café
Empire, Colorado
Overheard by: try 2007 - TK
Woman to friend: 'Cause, you know, I feel things. I'm, like, a feeler.
Shout-out: www.overheardinminneapolis.com
Overheard by: feelin it!
Freshman ho #1: But... Are you, like, good at drunk driving?
Freshman ho #2: Oh, yeah... I'm, like, sooo good! I've been drunk driving, like, since I got my license.
Shout-out: overheardatcornell.blogspot.com
Overheard by: newm
Dude: So, what is this? Like, an energy drink, too?
Barista: Nah, it's just a soda.
Dude: Hmmm, white grape juice, filtered carbonated water... It does have like 22 grams of sugar, but I guess it's like natural sugar, so it's not so bad, right?
Barista: I don't know, it might kill ya!
Dude: Yeah, but I think that things that kill you make you smarter.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Dude: My grandmother told me never to discuss the three D's in polite company.
Chick: Oh, yeah? What are they?
Dude: I don't remember...
Shout-out: overheardlines.blogspot.com
Overheard by: tim
Lady: Um, I want a side salad without the cheese, and--
Burger drone: --No.
Lady: No?
Burger drone: Not without cheese. It comes with cheese.
Lady: I can't have it without cheese?
Burger drone: There's no way that could possibly happen.
Burger King, Columbus Drive and Dale Mabry Highway
Tampa, Florida
Overheard by: Have it your way, if your way is our way, too.
Old nag, as train breaks down: Why'd we stop? What's wrong?
Fellow commuter: We hit a buffalo.
Old nag: Really?!
Fellow commuter: Yes.
Worcester/Framingham Line to Boston, Massachusetts
Man: Man, I'd like to have been around when Jesus put all them dinosaurs here. I figure that woulda been pretty cool.
Friend: Yeah, that woulda been cool.
Canyonlands National Park
Moab, Utah
Overheard by: Iain
Shopkeeper: How's your wife? Did they take her in to have the baby yet?
Shopper: Yeah, they took her in this morning to be seduced.
Bangor
Northern Ireland
Overheard by: limeinside
Philosopher: The world would be a better place if everyone wore pants.
Shout-out: overheardinpdx.blogspot.com
Overheard by: sarah
Guy #1: Dude, the prof is such a bitch!
Guy #2: Yeah, it must've been that time of the month for her.
Girl: That is, like, so incredibly sexist! Ugh! [Storms off.]
Guy #2: What the hell was that all about?
Guy #1: Must be that time of month for her, too.
Guy #2: For real.
Shout-out: www.overheardatmcgill.com
Dude #1: Dude, have you ever, y'know, worked with slop?
Dude #2: Yeah, I've done it.
Dude #1: No, seriously, dude -- you've never been there... with the trough...
Dude #2: Dude, I totally have too done it.
Dude #1: When?
Dude #2: I dunno, man, but I've done it.
Shout-out: overheardatcornell.blogspot.com
Overheard by: florack
Woman: Are these sandals man-made?
Clerk: The materials?
Woman: No, are these sandals man-made? Like, are they organic?
Shout-out: community.livejournal.com
Student: Oh my god, Suzie! What happened?!
Suzie: I got in a car wreck.
Student: With what?!
Suzie: ... A car.
Delaware
Overheard by: Chey
Confused customer: So, how much is this 30-cent gum?
Employee: Um, 25 cents.
Shout-out: overheardatthemecca.blogspot.com
Girl engineer: I should do LSD or something... Then I could, like, step outside my mind and solve all of these problems from, like, a greater depth of being.
Shout-out: overheardatcornell.blogspot.com
Overheard by: the sinister minister
20-ish girl: Where do you think is the best place to get molested?
Friend: Daycare?
Montana
Punk gesticulating wildly to friends: Unlike Europeans, they have to earn their souls... And they never do, man, they never do!
Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: wtf?!
Park ranger on horseback to another: We have to stay inside the perimeter or else... [thoughtful pause]... we will be outside the perimeter.
National Mall
Washington, DC
Overheard by: three amigas
20-ish girl: So, I was thinking of 'Liberty and Justice for Balls.'
20-ish guy: Liberty and justice for balls?
20-ish girl: Yeah, I was trying to think of a paper title.
Shout-out: www.overheardinminneapolis.com
Overheard by: um, what?
Dude whining about a girl: That's how she does it, man. That's her opus miranda.
Spadina street car
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Fuel
Sunday school instructor: Hate is a very, very strong adjective.
Donkey Coffee
Athens, Ohio
Overheard by: Lisa
Dude: What are some words that rhyme with 'chicken'?
Chick: Frickin', lickin', hair.
Dude: 'Hair' doesn't rhyme with 'chicken'!
Chick: Yeah, it does -- chicken, hair; chicken, hair.
Dude: Yeah, I guess it kind of does.
Metro bus
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dude #1: Hey, man, call someone and see if you can get us a ride.
Dude #2: Denny's.
Dude #1, pausing: ... No, you need to make some calls and see if you can get someone to give us a ride.
Dude #2: Denny's.
Dude #1, after longer pause: Dude, are you hungry?
Dude #2: No... I could use some food, though.
Bay Area Rapid Transit District, California
Woman: What's the phrase? 'Get off the pot or shit on the horse'?
Kohl's dressing room
Brookfield, Connecticut
Overheard by: Nik
Dude #1: I pulled a muscle.
Dude #2, after short pause: How?
Dude #1: Have you ever tried to fuck yourself? It's really hard! I did and pulled a muscle.
Hampden Academy
Maine
Overheard by: Last final
Teen #1: No. Seriously. What's five eighths as a fraction?
Teen #2: God. We should totally know this.
Guy #1: Who's Ian Gillan?
Guy #2: You know, the guy in Deep Purple? He was also in Jesus Christ Superstore.
Long Beach
Girl on PA: Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers. We need Dan Smith* to return to automotive for a confrontation on your vehicle.
Wal-Mart
Kentucky
Dude: I don't believe in AIDS. I think STDs are just negative energy.
Corda Bar
São Paulo
Brazil
Guy: Yeah, that whole pot-smoking thing? I totally started it!
Shout-out: overheardatwestern.blogspot.com
Overheard by: kate & matt
Genius #1, about Neil Armstrong: Wait, didn't he win the Tour de-- Oh, no, that was Lance Armstrong.
Genius #2: Wait, there are two of them? I thought the astronaut guy turned into the bike guy!
Rutgers bus
New Jersey
Girl #1: Is Cuba part of North America?
Girl #2: Do they speak Spanish in Cuba?
Girl #1: Yes.
Girl #2: Then no. Cuba is not part of North America.
Guy: What about Mexico? They speak Spanish in Mexico.
Girl #2: Mexicans are illegal.
Shout-out: www.overheardatmcgill.com
College dude #1: What are those birds that fucking talk?
College dude #2: Parrots?
College dude #1: No, that's what my teacher said... Ravens! That's right!
College dude #2: Ravens talk? That's like Edgar Allen Poe shit or something.
College dude #1: No, dude, they for real only say like one word, though.
College dude #2, imitating a raven: Aquafina!
College dude #1: Yeah, dude! 'Aquafina!' Only I'd make mine say, 'Radiator.'
www.overheardinpittsburgh.com
Guy: So at this Texas game ranch they release emos, and you shoot at them... I mean, emus.
Shout-out: overheardatcornell.blogspot.com
Overheard by: pace
Big dude on phone: Yeah, I am feeling better... I woke up at four a.m. this morning, but it's okay -- I'm taking that euthanasia stuff and it seems to be helping.
Tram, Victoria Street
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Overheard by: Louise
Girl: Look, there's a small dog coming this way!
Guy: It's not small, it's far away.
Serbia
Dreamer: I always wanted to be in the little pokey-outy thing on top of a caboose.
Shout-out: overheardlines.blogspot.com
Overheard by: mk
Man: So yeah, the baby is due in July.
Hairdresser: This year?
Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: Brett
Scholar: Handicapped people would be hot if they could, like, use their legs and stuff.
Bryn Mawr College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Woman #1: How do you spell 'rarely'?
Woman #2: R-A-I-R-L-E-E... Here, maybe I should fill that out.
Shout-out: overheardina2.blogspot.com
Overheard by: office dog
Dude: I'm the kind of person who does what I do.
Shout-out: overheardina2.blogspot.com
Overheard by: Bob
Dude: Hey, man, do I have any more swastikas on my face? I tried to wash them all off...
Shout-out: overheardatcornell.blogspot.com
Overheard by: zak
Dude #1: Saint Nicholas. Isn't he the evil one?
Dude #2: No, Saint Nick is Santa Claus.
Dude #1: Oh, I must be thinking of John the Baptist.
Shout-out: overheardlines.blogspot.com
Overheard by: tim