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Frat boy to another: Dude... Just because you can get with one of them doesn't mean you can automatically have a twin threesome.
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Overheard by: Ian
Suit to friend: Coffee is like beer for the morning.
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Middle-aged woman on cell: Unless he doubles my salary, I'm not sleeping with him.
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Woman #1: I love TGI Friday's, but if I could pick any local place to go for dinner tonight, I would pick Olive Garden.
Woman #2: Oooh, good pick! What about Macaroni Grill?
Woman #1: I love Macaroni Grill! But isn't it a little fancy for tonight?
Woman #2: No, we can go change.
Woman #1: Are you sure you're okay with driving in this city?
Woman #2: Sure, it is okay.
Woman #1: Maybe we should pray before we leave... you know, just in case.
Woman #2: Great idea.
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Overheard by: Jon
Female customs and border patrol officer: So I wasn't surprised when he left his wife for his girlfriend, but I was surprised by the domestic battery charge. But... you know how women can be.
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Sweet-ass security guard: Miss, you're going to have to hang up your phone and run it through the machine.
20-something girl intern: But I'm not a terrorist, and I'm on an important call. Can't I just walk through?
Sweet-ass security guard: Miss, that would be like Timothy McVeigh driving up and asking "hey, can I park my car here?"
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Overheard by: Ian
Girl to female friend: Yes, if I get the job at the CDC I will celebrate your chlamydia as an inspirational story.
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Coworker #1: Are either of you any good with reviewing grammar?
Coworker #2: What?
Coworker #1, yelling: I'm having colon problems!
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Overheard by: Ian
Annoyed guy walking with his girlfriend: Whatever... We can do it anally tonight if you want.
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Girl #1: What? Did he think I was going to let him have sex with me?
Girl #2: Or choke you?
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Overheard by: Marty
Six-year-old girl at the zoo: (drops French fries one by one)
Dad: Why are you dropping French fries?
Six-year-old girl: To feed them!
Dad: No one wants your old French fries.
Six-year-old girl: You're an old French fry!
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Overheard by: Dave
Son to father, exiting hospital: Dad, what's a disability?
Father: It's like when someone loses their finger in an accident, (pause) which will probably happen to you.
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Female to male coworker: Stop trying to fit me into things!
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Man to friends: I think I'm finally gonna quit my job and write the sitcom I've always wanted to, about the sassy robot.
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Girl #1, about classes she's taking: Oh, yeah, and then there's Murder and Genocide.
Girl #2: That sounds awesome!
Girl #1: I know, right?
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Economics professor, discussing equilibrium in trade curves: When you reach that point, the climax, everyone can go home satisfied and exhausted. So as you can imagine, we're going to fool around with these curves quite a bit.
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Overheard by: au
Young college woman on cell: No! No, you may not wear my underwear!
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Guy: That's a cool necklace. What is it?
Girl: Oh, it's Lady Liberty. I'm a libertarian.
Guy: Oh cool. I'm a Virgo.
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Overheard by: student
Guy: You know what I'm going to do? I'm bringing back the safari hat. Tomorrow I'm wearing a safari hat to work.
Girl: That's so Baltimore!
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Middle-aged wife: Oh, honey, look! It's the George Jefferson memorial.
Middle-aged husband: Seriously. You are such an idiot.
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Woman on cell, after next bus stop is announced: Did you hear that? The woman giving the announcement? It's the same woman every time. I wonder where she is.
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Supermarket cashier: I only use Charmin toilet paper; if a place doesn't have it, I bring my own.
Customer: Wow, you're picky.
Supermarket cashier: I'm picky about my men too; they have to have all of their teeth.
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Waitress to guy wearing a Soviet hockey jersey: CCCP? Who's that?
Customer: It's the Soviet Union.
Waitress: Oh, are they playing the Caps tonight?
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Construction worker #1, with southern drawl, on speakerphone: Yeah, then we all woke up wearing leotards. Looked like goddamn ballerinas.
Construction worker #2: I don't think I'd tell that story.
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Professor: I have three children: 15, 13, and 7.
Female student: Oh, I don't think I could have three.
Male student: Yeah, with two you can do person-on-person defense, but with three you need zone.
professor: You have a point.
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Overheard by: Ian
(in the Georgetown Banana Republic)
Girl #1: I really love this dress, but I think it's a tad too short for work. I'm only supposed to be buying dresses for work right now.
Girl #2: Really? It's not too short for my office. But my boss only hires pretty people, so he likes it when we wear short dresses.
Girl #1: Did you think I'm ugly?
Girl #2: No! Buy the dress and send me your resume.
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Woman #1: So, you think he is?
Woman #2: No, you don't really think he is?
Woman #3: Hell, yes! I know he is. He is cheating on his wife and me. I'm gonna cut off his dick and then quit! That'll teach him.
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Woman #1: Come on, hurry up! I want to go home.
Woman #2: Jesus, you sure do get cranky when you're sober.
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(in the atrium at the HQ of one of the national intelligence agencies)
Young woman to female buddy: It just wasn't meant to be. He refused to self-actualize me...
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30-something guy on cell: ...and they don't even care about all my Kung fu skills!
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Suit #1: So you live in the Watergate.
Suit #2: I do. The famous Watergate complex.
Suit #1: It's famous?
Suit #2: Yeah--the Nixon scandal and everything.
Suit #1: Oh--I don't really follow current events.
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Girl #1: Hey girl, what's up? How's your summer? You still runnin' 'round with that bad boy?
Girl #2: Oh no, he dead.
Girl #1: He dead?! No! He dead? When?
Girl #2: Few weeks ago. It don't matter. We weren't goin' out no more.
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Woman deli worker to male worker: Three dollar juice? Shit, what are you, a millionaire?
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Guy to another: Dude, she's way out of your league. She's in the Majors and you're a tee-ball coach with questionable photos on your computer.
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20-something to gay friend: I got stuffed more than a Turducken last night!
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(two college girls walking down M Street towards Georgetown)
Girl #1: You look cute. I like your dress.
Girl #2: Yeah...I didn't shower.
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Mid-twenties guy leaving voice mail: Hey baby, just calling to say hi. How are your boobs?
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Skater guy: I'm not into the unibutt.
Friend: The what?
Skater guy: You know, it's like a unibrow, except a butt.
Friend: What are you talking about?
Skater guy: I am just giving my commentary on how style has affected my life.
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Girl on phone: Yeah, he couldn't get it up, so we just watched Schindler's List instead.
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[Girl hugging a guy.]
Girl: Eew, you smell like vagina.
Guy: Oh no, that's just Philadelphia.
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20-something in pink heels, on a Saturday afternoon: God, I'm like frickin walk of shame Barbie right now.
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WASPy college student to cab driver: You're absolutely right, sir. A curse upon the Saudis.
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Guy on phone: I don't vote for people who put their name in quotation marks on the ballot... Well, yeah, if it was 'Killer,' then I'd definitely vote for him.
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Girl: I should probably go to church tomorrow. It would make my mom happy... And the priest is really fucking hot.
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American history professor: Whoever is writing 'vah-jay-jay' instead of 'Virginia' in the notes they are submitting, please stop.
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Girl: Why do they have an ambassador to Vatican City?
Guy: Because it's a country and stuff.
Girl: Do, like, normal people live there?
Guy: I don't know...
Girl, thoughtfully: It's a scary place...
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Worker, about Administrative Professionals' Day: We don't have administrative professionals here... Just computers.
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Little tyke, about fireworks: Oooh, look -- green! Like St. Patrick's Day! Remember when I made it St. Patrick's Day in the toilet?
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Girl watching end credits of Return of the Jedi: Where's Scott Baio?
Guy: What?
Girl: Scott Baio -- I don't see his name in the credits.
Guy: Scott Baio was not in Star Wars!
Girl: Yes, he was! He was celebrating at the end! The pilot!
Guy: Scott Baio is not Wedge Antilles!
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Girl, about guy she had over the previous night: It freaked me out. I told him he had to do a double flush, a courtesy flush, and light a match, or he wasn't allowed back.
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Intern girl #1: Bet McCain's into S&M.
Intern girl #2: I can see that.
Intern girl #1: Ever see the veins in McCain's head? They throb all day. I had a boyfriend like that.
Intern girl #2: Did he want to smack you around?
Intern girl #1: He wanted me to smack him around.
Intern girl #2 Did you?
Intern girl #1: Psh. I am sooo not maternal.
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Bimbette: She went to beauty school, so she thinks she's a cosmopolitician or something.
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Guy: I don't understand! What is a pork roll?
Jersey girl: It's hard to explain... It's like if bacon married awesome and they had delicious babies.
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Woman pointing at cadaver: Oooh. I'd love one of those for home!
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Hobo to suits who ignore his panhandling: Yeah?! Well, at least I never lied on my income taxes!
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Tourist at Folklife Festival: You're just looking for an excuse to take a picture of a black person.
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Dude: I think I'll take the bean bag over the butt sex.
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Office whiner: The weather conditions in here are unacceptable.
Manager: Huh?
Office whiner: This office has been climatically compromised, and I have to go home to be warm, and with full pay.
Manager: Sorry, that's not an option.
Office whiner: Well, then I deserve hazard pay for working under these conditions.
Manager: Again, I'm sorry, but that's not going to happen.
Office whiner, agitated: Well, fine! But I don't like being cold! [Stomps off to cube.]
Manager: Neither do I.
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Guy: Man, I have a ton of friends who are Asian. But watch out -- if you touch one of them on the head, they'll kill you.
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Professor: I love talking about this stuff. I could go on forever. And I'm tenured, so if you have a problem with that you'll just have to deal.
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Chick #1: Girl, get off me. You know I don't like hookers.
Chick #2: Yeah, well, I don't like Chinese people.
Chick #1: Do I look Chinese to you?
Chick #2: I was just letting you know.
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Girl #1: I just want to tell her, 'Just because you think the sun rises and sets in her vagina doesn't mean we all have to.'
Girl #2: Seriously.
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Stoned girl on other side of the curtain: I ate a stress ball.
Nurse: Okay... Was it a foam ball? Gel? Did you just take a bite?
Stoned girl, laughing: I ate a stress ball!
Doctor, entering a few minutes later: Now, this makes me uncomfortable.
Stoned girl: The nurse told me to take off my pants.
Doctor: Are you sure? Why don't you put them back on for the CAT scan...
Stoned girl, still laughing: I ate a stress ball.
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Girl on cell: If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for Texas.
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Geek: Yeah, I'm a big geek, but I still really like sex.
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Frat boy: All of my plans involve either money or pussy.
Starbucks, E Street
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Dude #1: I have a really bad headache.
Dude #2: You know what cures that? Sodomy!
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International Relations professor: If I was to go to San Diego, or any city I've never been to, give me 24 hours and I could tell you what, where, by whom, and how much the drugs are sold for... [Long pause] And, depending on the drug, perhaps even the quality.
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Dude: It's weird... All of the girls I dated turned slutty after I dated them. It's totally unfair.
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Guy #1: 'Drinking the Kool-Aid' is such a misused phrase. It's even become corporate speak. Don't people realize that it's a reference to the death of a thousand people?
Guy #2: Yeah, next thing you know they'll be saying, 'We're going to offer a Holocaust of savings.'
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Man to buddy: She's the one who introduced me to the lesbian that beat me up after sex.
Adams Morgan, DC
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Girl: I'm like Mister Rogers -- I change my style twice a day.
Farragut North Metro
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Dude: Man, I've dated two chicks with fake boobs. I mean, what's up with that?
GW party
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