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Hopeful tourist to hotel employee: We came to see kangaroos in their natural habitat, which way is the outback?

Hotel Front Desk
Vienna
Austria


Overheard by: flamingriver


Categories: Animals | Europe | Geography | Questions | Tourists | Posted 2011-06-06 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Je...zeus?

20-something American girl, loudly and excitedly, pointing at statue: Ohmigod! Ohmigod! Ohmigod! There's a statue of Jesus! They've got a statue of Jesus Christ! Ohmigod!
Unimpressed 20-something Greek girl: That's a statue of Zeus. (slight pause) You fucking retard.

National Archaeological Museum
Athens
Greece


Overheard by: Bleep


Categories: Europe | History | Jesus | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2011-06-05 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Dear World-- We Apologize.

American tourist #1: What's your background?
Tourist guide: Aboriginal.
American tourist #1: No, as in "where were you born?"
Tourist guide: Here, in Australia.
American tourist #1: But you're black!
Tourist guide: Yes... I'm aboriginal.
American tourist #1: But I thought you guys were all extinct! Are you, like, the last one?
American tourist #2: Jay, shut up. It's idiots like you that make us look stupid. He's messing with you, there are no aboriginals.

Adelaide, Australia


Categories: Australia | Geography | Questions | Race | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2011-05-10 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Didn't You Read the Welcome Sign at the Airport?

Tourist: Wait, so you can't smoke cigarettes, but you can smoke pot?
Local guy: Welcome to California!

Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, California


Overheard by: Arielle


Categories: Drugs | Guys | Questions | San Francisco | Smoking | Tourists | Posted 2010-12-03 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

When You Stick a Key Into It, All It Does Is Sputter.

60-something tourist holding map, looking bewildered: So why is it called lemon chicken anyway?

Canberra
Australia


Categories: Australia | Food | Names | Questions | Tourists | Posted 2010-10-05 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Another Conflict in Which the Swiss Happily Remain Neutral

Overweight redhead Southern lady #1, looking through Switzerland t-shirts: Y'all, Ginger... I think this size is a li'l too small...
Overweight redhead Southern lady #2: Naw, I think that looks 'bout right.
Random lady: I thought we went on vacation to get away from the Southerners, not go find some more...

Lucerne
Switzerland


Overheard by: marisawin


Categories: Clothes | Clothing | Comebacks | Diet & weight | Europe | Fat people | Strangers | Tourists | Posted 2010-08-30 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

You'd Think There'd Be a Train

Canadian girl #1 to tour operator: Where can we do tours of Auschwitz?
Tour operator: Um, well, Auschwitz is in Poland, so...
Canadian girl #2: No, but we mean the one the Germans set up for the war. The German one.
Tour operator: Yes, I understand, but they set it up in Poland.
Canadian girl #1, after pause: Are you sure? We came to Berlin just to see it.

Berlin
Germany


Overheard by: Jit


Categories: Employees | Geography | Germany | History | Murder | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2010-08-08 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

...But I Haven't Seen a Starbucks for Miles!

American tourist: It's so quaint here. All the pretty houses. It's so romantic.
German host: Uh-huh.
American tourist: What I don't get, though, is why they built it if they don't even charge money for people visiting it.
German host: I think the people living here would feel weird about that.
American woman: Wait, people actually live here??

Regensburg
Germany


Categories: Germany | Money | Tourists | Weirdness | Posted 2010-07-26 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

She'd Still Be Creepy, but She'd Have a Profession

Middle aged Midwest tourist, extremely wistfully: I wish I would've gotten her that marionette...

Wall Drug
Wall, South Dakota


Overheard by: Melissa


Categories: Gifts | South Dakota | Tourists | Wishes | Posted 2010-07-26 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

The Hot New Game Show That's Sweeping the Globe

Artsy tourist to touristy-looking woman: More cats, more money!

Outside Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
Istanbul
Turkey


Categories: Animals | Compare and contrast | Middle East | Money | Tourists | Posted 2010-07-21 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

That Corner Is the En Suite Bathroom, Hon

American tourist male: It must have been horrible being locked up in a place like that.
American tourist female: It couldn't have been that bad. They had to at least let them out to go to the bathroom.

Dungeon Cell
Tower of London
England


Overheard by: fnordy


Categories: Compare and contrast | Crimes | Tourists | UK | Posted 2010-05-26 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Is That Slang for "Gays," You Bigot?

Large female tourist in plaid bermuda shorts: You know what's wrong with California? Too many windows!

Quincy Market
Boston, Massachusetts


Overheard by: Isotope Feeney


Categories: Fat people | Massachusetts | Questions | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2010-05-23 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Then They Both Let Out Super-Sighs.

Fat tourist mom: Nah... I don't wanna eat there.
Fat tourist dad, wistfully: Well, it's not McDonald's.

Outside Marcy's Diner
Portland, Maine


Overheard by: townie knows best


Categories: Compare and contrast | Dads | Fat people | Food | Maine | Moms | Restaurants | Tourists | Wishes | Posted 2009-12-10 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

He Likes to Stand Out on the Porch and Shake a Stick at Trespassers

Tour guide: Where is your group going next?
Tourist: The Vatican.
Tour guide: Oh? You are lucky, the Pope is not there.

Florence
Italy


Overheard by: Burlabo


Categories: Christianity | Employees | Italy | Questions | Tourists | Posted 2009-12-10 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

That's What You Said at the Pyramids Of Giza

Tourist: It's like Times Square with less fat people!

Piccadilly Circus
London
England


Overheard by: Stuart


Categories: Compare and contrast | Diet & weight | England | Tourists | Posted 2009-11-23 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

It's the Germany Of the United States.

Guy in "I heart NJ" shirt: Could you take our picture?
German tourist: Sure.
Guy in "I heart NJ" shirt: Thanks a lot, man.
German tourist: You luv New Jer-see?
Guy in "I heart NJ" shirt: Hell yeah!
German tourist: You za own-lee vun!

London
England


Overheard by: Joyful One


Categories: England | Feelings | Foreigners | Offers and requests | Questions | Tourists | Weirdness | Posted 2009-10-18 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

But We Honor Him Every Time I Buy You a Lap Dance for Your Birthday

Mom tourist: We're going to go see the Washington Monument, do you know who it's named for?
Son tourist: Yes, our first President, George Washington
Mom tourist: That's right. (pause) He's dead now.

Washington, DC


Categories: Death & dying | Family | History | Moms | Names | Questions | Stupidity | Tourists | Washington, DC | Posted 2009-10-11 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Gay People Love Having Straight People Speak for Them

Tourist: So, basically, people go to Castro to stare at the gay people making out?
Passenger: Well, the gay people feel more comfortable making out there... Because people aren't staring at them...

Berkeley, California


Categories: California | K-I-S-S-I-N-G | Questions | Sexuality | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2009-10-08 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Only Without the Three-Foot Margaritas

American tourist, overlooking Grand Canal: It's like... It's just like Las Vegas!

Venice
Italy


Overheard by: Pumpkin and Peanut


Categories: Compare and contrast | Geography | Italy | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2009-10-03 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

...Without Being Swarmed by Seminarians

Australian tourist: God, it's so hot in here. I can't wait to get out of here and take these pants off.
Church security guard, overhearing: Yes... that is very difficult to do in a church.

Vatican City

Overheard by: LeBron


Categories: Clothes | Cops | Europe | Foreigners | Religion | Tourists | Weather | Wishes | Posted 2009-09-06 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Propelled by Airbrush, Like a Playboy Bunny

American tourist to girlfriend: No, it's a special species of blue rabbit that can survive in space.
Girlfriend: Wow!

Kaaba Cafe
Prague
Czech Republic


Categories: Animals | Bars & Clubs | Couples | Europe | Science | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2009-08-26 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Ten Bucks Says They're American

Teenage tourist girl to friend: Wanna play connect the dots with my track marks?
Friend: (laughs nervously)
Teenage tourist girl: Also, if you do that stupid thing with your water glass again, I'm gonna strangle you, and throw you in a pit and put a dead dog on top of your grave. Pass me that cheese?

Pizzeria
Rome
Italy

I Remember the First Time I Felt the Sting for Forceable Intercourse and the Warmth Of Dirt...

Tour guide: The vestal virgins would be raped and buried alive if they were no longer virgins. If they let the fire go out, they would just be buried alive.
Tourist: I dunno if that's any better.
Little old Japanese woman: Hey, at least the first way you get some thrills.

Colosseum
Rome
Italy

Since the Rain Machine Is Broken

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


Categories: Employees | Idiots | Questions | Restaurants | Science | South Carolina | Stupidity | Tourists | Weather | Posted 2009-08-06 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Then Where Are the Coconuts, Brainiac?

Tourist to park ranger: How do I get to Mt. Desert Island from here?
Park ranger: Ummm, you're standing on it.
Tourist: No, I'm not.
Park ranger: Yes, you are.
Tourist: This is ridiculous, I'm going to report you to the government.
Park ranger: No, really, you're on the island.

Mount Desert Island, Maine


Categories: Employees | Geography | Maine | Questions | Threats | Tourists | Posted 2009-07-19 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Why Many People Start Fires.

Tourist chick, looking at rescuer on poster: Wow, if I knew I'd be rescued b a guy as hot as that, I would just jump.

Grand Canyon West Rim
Arizona


Overheard by: Long way down


Categories: Arizona | Beauty | Chicks | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2009-07-17 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

President Bush Directs a Rendition Of The Wizard Of Oz

Tourist: Are you a good Muslim or a bad Muslim?

Haunted Mansion, DisneyWorld
Orlando, Florida


Overheard by: Eric


Categories: Compare and contrast | Florida | Questions | Religion | Tourists | Posted 2009-07-12 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Your Editors Pray She's Not from the U.S.

Tourist woman to wheelchair-bound local: Can you point me in the right direction?
Wheelchair-bound local: Yep, it's straight down that way.
Tourist woman: Okay...but is it walkable?

St. Lawrence Market
Toronto
Canadia


Overheard by: kingdubby


Categories: Canadia | Disabled | Health & Hygiene | Questions | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2009-06-24 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

No Matter Where I Take You, You're Still You

Tourist, yelling at husband who went to magazine kiosk : Get the magazine! Not the paper! Magazine! (husband comes back with paper) *Sigh* Men...they're the same everywhere.

Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia


Categories: Compare and contrast | Couples | Family ties | Malaysia | Pop culture | Tourists | Posted 2009-06-22 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

I Thought All the Whack-Jobs Were on Capitol Hill?

Confused tourist lady, looking at anime convention kids in costume: Excuse me? Do you know what all of this is about?
Local: Yeah, the whack-job convention is in town.
Confused tourist lady: The...the..."whack-job" convention? (looks at costumes) Whack-jobs?
Local: (smacks forehead and turns away)

Washington, DC

Overheard by: Sarah Boyd


Categories: Default | Girls | Kids | Names | Offers and requests | Questions | Stupidity | Tourists | Washington, DC | Posted 2009-06-15 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Translation: "Welcome to New York, Muthafuckaaaas."

MTA worker to tourist mom buying tickets with daughter: 10 dollars.
Mom: Oh, but she's a student.
Worker, looking at daughter: Oh! How nice for you! (looks back at mom) Ten dollars please.

Subway Station
New York City, New York


Overheard by: Glad thats not my cheap-ass mom

The PTA Thought It Would Be a Better Fundraiser Than a Bake Sale

Indian tourist outside strip club: So you pay money, and a lady dances for you.
Mum: Well, that sounds delightful.

Whitechapel
London
England


Overheard by: Chinese cockney


Categories: Asians | Compare and contrast | Dancing | Default | England | Moms | Money | Tourists | Posted 2009-03-24 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

And Maybe Some Of Those Flying Pigs We've Been Hearing So Much About

American tourist to friends: I hope this park has shade and air conditioning.

Barcelona
Spain


Overheard by: Kate


Categories: Default | Spain | Technology | Tourists | Weather | Wishes | Posted 2009-03-04 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

As Evidenced by the Last Election

Metro cop addressing large crowd waiting for the orange line: Keep moving down the platform. Move down, please!
Tired tourist mom: Move down, honey.
Little girl: Why?
Tired tourist mom: Because we're sheep, that's why.

Smithsonian Station, DC Metro
Washington, DC

Toaster Strudel Is My Religion

40-something tourist woman: But is it beneficial for your toaster?
40-something tourist woman #2: Umm...do I really have to answer that?

Underground Mall
Montreal, Canadia


Overheard by: Yes, yes you do.


Categories: Canadia | Default | Food | Malls | Offers and requests | Questions | Technology | Tourists | Women | Posted 2008-12-11 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Puppy: Hey, I May Be Dinner-- Cut Me Some Slack

Middle aged tourist with shopping bags moving towards a small puppy: Well, my oh my, aren't you the sweetest looking thing in the world!
Puppy: (barks)
Middle aged tourist: Oh, go fuck yourself!

Bangkok
Thailand


Overheard by: Adair


Categories: Animals | Asia | Compliments | Default | Feelings | Insults | Tourists | Posted 2008-12-11 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Unlike All Those Low-Budget Canadian Bridges

Canadian tourist girl #1: Wow! That's such a cool bridge!
Canadian tourist girl #2: Wow! It totally goes all the way across the river!

Millenium Bridge
London, England


Overheard by: Michael Oakes


Categories: Compliments | England | Girls | Stupidity | Tourists | Weirdness | Posted 2008-11-26 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Ad: Canadia-- Come for the Chicken, Stay for the Toilets!

Swedish tourist: We came here for the chicken, but will remember it for the toilets.

Swiss Chalet
Toronto
Canadia


Overheard by: Glad I didn't go downstairs...


Categories: Canadia | Compare and contrast | Default | Food | Restaurants | Tourists | Weirdness | Posted 2008-11-25 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Was He Also Overweight and Driving an SUV?

American tourist: Where's north here?
Local Swedish friend: (points north)
American tourist: It seems north changes everywhere I go, in Hungary it was that way (points), in Aspen it was that way (points) and now in Sweden it's that way (points).
(Swede stares in disbelief)

Stockholm
Sweden


Categories: Default | Friends | Geography | Questions | Stupidity | Sweden | Tourists | Posted 2008-11-15 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Henry VIII Hated Getting Caught in Traffic Before a Flight

American tourist: Why did they put the castle so close to the airport?

Outside Windsor Castle
Windsor
England


Categories: Default | England | History | Idiots | Public Transportation | Questions | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2008-11-12 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

We Better Just Get Off the Train, Mom

Tourist lady, as train approaches the end of the line: So how are they going to turn this train around?
Daughter: They don't have to. It can go in either direction.
Tourist lady: Well, are they at least going to turn the seats around?

Subway
Washington, DC


Categories: Default | Girls | Kids | Kids | Moms | Public transportation | Questions | Technology | Tourists | Train | Washington, DC | Women | Posted 2008-11-11 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

The Butt End Of the Mississippi Alimentary Canal

Hotel concierge: So, how did you enjoy The Big Easy?
Tourist lady: Oh, New Orleans is a wonderful city. I just wish I knew what it smelled like...
Drunk guy: "Ass." That's the word your looking for. The city smells like ass.

Bourbon Street
New Orleans, Louisiana

And It's His Last Term

Midwestern American: Well, we never did find out if he was a racist or not, but there's not a whole lot left of him to find out now.

London
England


Overheard by: doe


Categories: Death & dying | Default | England | Race | Tourists | Posted 2008-10-30 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Religion Does Seem to Be the Opium Of the People

Tourist mom: I'm fascinated by religions. I always read about them. But I've been watching this four-hour documentary on the Mormons and I can't really get into it.
Daughter: Why not?
Tourist mom: Well, every time I watch it I fall asleep.

Temple Square
Salt Lake City, Utah


Categories: Default | Girls | Moms | Religion | Tourists | Utah | Posted 2008-10-30 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Paul Bunyan Fantasies Run Wild in the Gay Community

Effeminate tourist guy on cell: So yeah, it was rigidly pressed in the watershed...

Cottage Street
Bar Harbor, Maine


Categories: Default | Guys | Maine | On the phone | Tourists | Weirdness | Posted 2008-10-04 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

An Institution Worth Protecting

Obese middle-aged tourist to husband: I called him and told him we're at passenger pick-up 2. He called and asked where we'd be, and I said passenger pick-up 2, that's where he can find us. It's just easier to find us when he gets here. Passenger pick-up 2. And it's cold. That's why I brought this vest. I brought this vest in case it got cold, and it got cold. I'm going to button it up. Did you hear me? I'm going to button it up. There, it's buttoned. (husband ignores her)

Newark Airport, New Jersey

Overheard by: EthanK

Let's Just Say She Turned Out to Be a "Carl"

Tourist mom: What would Carol think of all this?
Seven-year old son: Her name is Coral, and I told you we broke up!

eavesdropdc.blogspot.com


Categories: Default | Names | Questions | Relationships | Tourists | Posted 2008-09-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Theme Parks Are Quite Different in Europe

Loud, fat american teen: I have to take the biggest leak ever. Pause. And then I want to check out those hedgehogs.

Market in Freiburg, Germany


Categories: Animals | Default | Etiquette | Fat people | Germany | Pee | Stores | Teens | Tourists | Wishes | Posted 2008-07-22 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Brooklyn Itself Is Almost Imaginary

Half-drunk tourist girl: You're lying! Nobody has all that happen in their life!
Half-drunk guy with NY accent: I'm from Brooklyn! We all live unbelievable lives!

Parker House Bar
Boston, Massachusetts


Overheard by: annikee


Categories: Default | Drinking & drunks | Girls | Guys | Lies | Massachusetts | Tourists | US Geography | Posted 2008-07-17 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

I'd Suggest a Rollerblades Tour

Fat American female tourist to new best friend: If ya didn't like the Vatican, you're gonna hate the Louvre!

6th Floor, Hilton Arc de Triumph
Paris
France


Overheard by: Pope Andrew I


Categories: Advice | Default | Fat people | Feelings | France | Friends | Leisure | Stupidity | Tourists | Weirdness | Women | Posted 2008-07-01 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

If He Inquires, Just Say "It's Because You're So Big"

American backpacker girl, about her new hostel boyfriend: So, as of this afternoon, he's one step closer to not being a virgin.
Dutch girl, shocked: What about your period?!
American friend, walking up: Don't worry. Just do it. He won't even know what's going on anyways.

Loki Hostel
La Paz
Bolivia

But, More Importantly, Why Is Your Subway Outside?

Guy with luggage: What's the temperature tonight?
Guy without luggage: Two.
Guy with luggage: Two? Two! Why the fuck do people live here!?

Brown Line
Chicago, Illinois


Categories: Default | Guys | Illinois | Questions | Tourists | Train | Weather | Posted 2008-06-06 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Then Why Are My Hands Silver After Touching It?

Tourist: Is it solid silver?
Salesman: Let me show you. First, do you know how to tell the difference between solid silver and silver plate?
Tourist: No.
Salesman: This is solid silver.

Dodgy Souvenir Shop
Egypt

But We Call Them "American Voters"

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


Categories: Animals | Bus | Comebacks | Compare and contrast | Friends | Geography | Girls | Guys | Idiots | Stupidity | Tourists | UK | Posted 2008-05-25 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

And This Money Isn't Even Green!

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


Categories: Clients | Compare and contrast | Germany | Gripes | Idiots | Restaurants | Technology | Tourists | Wishes | Women | Posted 2008-04-23 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Just When Race Relations Were Improving in Boston

White tourist: I'm really sorry -- I don't have any change. If I did, I'd give you some, but I don't, so... sorry. Good luck with everything...
Black dude: Cracka, I'm ain't homeless!

Hynes Convention Center subway stop
Boston, Massachusetts

But No One Who Speaks German Could Be a Mean Guy!

American guy: Could you stamp my passport, please? It's a hobby of mine.
Passport checker to coworker, in German: These damn Americans always want something. Look, they've all got booze and bags and t-shirts. Now they want stamps.
American girl: Sir, I'd like mine stamped, too.
Passport checker, in German: I bet that girl was here to fuck guys. American girls become sluts in Europe.
American girl: Sir, that's not very nice!
Passport checker, still in German: I hate it when they know German. Then we can't talk about them!

Airport
Cologne
Germany


Categories: Assholes | Germany | Insults | Language barrier | Tourists | Posted 2008-02-18 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

I Won't Dignify That with a Witty Retort

Lost woman: Excuse me, can you tell me what state I'm in?

Mall of America
Bloomington, Minnesota


Overheard by: ugh...tourists


Categories: Minnesota | Questions | Tourists | Posted 2008-01-09 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Where the Delinquent Moose Live?

Tourist to waitress: How do we get to the bad part of town?

Shout-out: feeds.feedburner.com

Overheard by: kyle


Categories: Overheard in Vancouver | Questions | Tourists | Posted 2007-12-24 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Either That or They Swallowed Some

Dutch tourist as four very fat tourists waddle by: I bet they're American.

Hong Kong, China

Overheard by: i was thinking the same thing


Categories: China | Insults | Tourists | Posted 2007-11-25 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Ever Feel Like We Deserve the Rest of the World's Contempt?

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


Categories: Idiots | Italy | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2007-10-17 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

But We Have Legal Marijuana

Canadian tourist #1: Guys, you know what the States have that most of Canada doesn't?
Three others: What?
Canadian tourist #1: Black people...

Buffalo, New York

Overheard by: Bored At Work


Categories: New York | Race | Tourists | Posted 2007-10-05 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Not All of Them Involve Blood When Lost, Though

Tourist #1: No, there is more than one kind of virginity.
Tourist #2: What?
Tourist #1: You know, like anal-ginity, Argentina-ginity, Ameri-ginity. All kinds of '-ginities.'
Tourist #2: Wow, that's sick, man.

Buenos Aires
Argentina


Categories: Argentina | Tourists | Virginity | Posted 2007-09-23 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Ever Wondered How It's Possible to Have Fun in Tennessee?

Midwestern tourist: Excuse me, are there any malls around here?
Local teen, in exaggerated accent: We don't have malls in these here parts. Malls tempt the young ones to siiin. [Tourist leaves, scared. Teen then grumbles without accent] Fucking tourist.

Broadway and 4th Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee


Overheard by: pedestrian


Categories: Lies | Tennessee | Tourists | Posted 2007-09-14 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Like That Time You Dragged Me to Popeye's

Tourist at Folklife Festival: You're just looking for an excuse to take a picture of a black person.

Shout-out: eavesdropdc.blogspot.com


Categories: Eavesdrop DC | Race | Tourists | Posted 2007-08-29 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

And That's How I Got AIDS

American tourist: It all started when I said, 'Hey, Dave, are you up for a sword fight?'

Temple Bar
Dublin
Ireland


Categories: Gossip | Ireland | Tourists | Posted 2007-08-28 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

The Man Hopes; the Woman Knows

Old man: Are you going somewhere exciting?
Girl with suitcase: Not really. But when I get there, I'm getting laid.

Shout-out: overheardinpdx.blogspot.com

Overheard by: aaron


Categories: Gossip | Old folks | Overheard in PDX | Tourists | Posted 2007-06-16 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Maybe You Should Think about Having That Removed

Passenger to Muslim agent lady: People must get freaked out when they see you.

Ticket counter, Newark airport
Newark, New Jersey


Overheard by: OOC


Categories: New Jersey | Race | Tourists | Posted 2007-06-14 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

Look, There's Seven of Them, Alright?

Tourist: What's a gable?
Tour guide: A peak in a roof.
Tourist: So, a gable is a roof?
Tour guide: Uh... Yes.

House of Seven Gables
Salem, Massachusetts


Categories: Massachusetts | Stupidity | Tourists | Posted 2007-05-17 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook

So Now I Found a White House with a Really Big Lawn

Tourist girl on cell: I found the house I want to live in when I move to DC, but then I found out it was the Smithsonian...

Washington, DC


Categories: Gossip | Stupidity | Tourists | Washington, DC | Posted 2007-05-05 EmailQuoteLinkDel.icio.us Facebook