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A Black Friend Wearing Fubu Might Even Get Me Free Drinks
White girl: I wish I had an Obama t-shirt to wear tonight. (pause) Although I'm sure if I brought a black friend it'd be just the same.
Shout-out: feeds.feedburner.com
Overheard by: lb
...A Metaphor I Would Know Nothing About
Professor: The Government was spending money like a drunken sailor in a Tijuana whorehouse.
Macroeconomics Class
University of California
Overheard by: Econometrically Bored
Categories: California | Class | Compare and contrast | Default | Money | Politics | Teachers | Words | Posted 2008-06-18 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
In an Abstruse Theological Way That Requires Nothing of Us
Mid-30s casual man to woman: Obama is our modern-day political Jesus Christ. He will save us.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: babybug
Categories: Compare and contrast | Default | Guys | Jesus | Politics | San Francisco | Weirdness | Posted 2008-06-16 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Like We'd Really Elect a Latino?
Teen girl to classmates: Jesus was not a President!
US History Class, High School
San Diego, California
Categories: California | Default | History | Jesus | Politics | School [Elem., Middle, & High] | Posted 2008-06-16 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Mark Penn Offered Us $2 Million for This Quote
Black girl to another black girl wearing Obama t-shirt: Girl, what is that on your shirt? Mmmm, Obama is looking all fine up on your chest.
UNC
Greensboro, North Carolina
Categories: Black people | Clothes | Colleges & Universities | Compliments | Default | Girls | North Carolina | Politics | Posted 2008-06-12 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Because He Was a Lame Duck
Chick: So, they haven't actually had a mayor since the last one had to be euthanized...
Honors Lounge, Metro State College
Denver, Colorado
Or the Word "Dyke" Ever Again
Teacher: So, for the final sentence we should get some sort of metaphor for tax cuts helping the US recession.
Student #1: Hmm... Hey, you know like, the commercial where they put gum in the hole in the dam to stop the leak?.
Student #2: Or the finger!
Teacher: Oh, you mean in the dyke!
Student #1: Yeah, so... Tax cuts would be the finger in the hole of America's dyke?
Teacher: Maybe we shouldn't use a metaphor.
English Essentials Class
Waimea, Hawaii
Overheard by: boehmface
For Instance, If the State Wants to Mix Stripes and Plaids
Bimbette government teacher, explaining checks and balances: So then, like, the national government says to the state government, "Um, you can't do that, you little... like, state."
Canton, Michigan
With the Help of Her Lovely Assistant
Jewish student, about another: Every time we talk about the holocaust she, like, throws her Jew out and spins a dreidel with it or whatever.
SUNY
Geneseo, New York
Overheard by: Jeni
Texas Finally Catches Up to the Rest of the Country
Teacher: In a representative democracy, if you don't like who's in office, what can you do?
Student: Impeach him!
Teacher: Well, that's too drastic, what else?
Same student: Assassination?
9th Grade World Geography Class
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: amused teacher's aide
Can You Picture Martha Stewart on a Public Bus?
Thug #1: Why the hell are you going all the way to back of the train car? Why don't we sit in the front like that Martha Stewart woman?
Thug #2: What the fuck are you talking about Martha Stewart?
Thug #1: You know, she stood up for herself on the bus? Wait, who was that? Not Martha Stewart?
Orange Line at Downtown Crossing
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: drunkbigirls
It's Like Having a Principle, Only Easier
Granola guy: Yeah man, Ron Paul is awesome! He, like, votes no on everything.
Bonnaroo Festival
Manchester, Tennessee
Terry McAuliffe: Shhhhhh!
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
With Dresden As a Possible Exception
Professor: Well, they had Nazis, but those aren't exactly lighting fixtures.
Theatre Class, SUNY
Geneseo, New York
Overheard by: Jeni
Ironically, the Skirt Has a Silver Lining
Girl in uniform: So when I went to pick up my uniform there were no skirts. So my mom was like "My daughter needs bottoms."
Friend: That sucks!
Girl in uniform: Yeah, the skirt I'm wearing now belongs to this girl who was deported to Trinidad.
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Myr
In That She's an American in a Brit's Body
Guy #1, after British tourists leave elevator: Stupid British bitches.
Guy #2: Wow, you hate Brits?
Guy #1: You know it.
Guy #2: But Maggie is British, and you like her.
Guy #1: Yeah, well, that's because Maggie is a tranny.
Hotel Whitcomb
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Adam
Portrait Of the U.S. Policy Advisor As a Young Man
Small boy running down aisle: Stupid democracy!
Canadia
Overheard by: MNM
How Everybody Reacts to Ann Coulter's Baby Pictures
Liberal student, passing photo of cute baby: Aw... [realizing it's an ad for campus pro-life group] ... Ugh.
Princeton University
New Jersey
Categories: Colleges & Universities | Default | Feelings | Health & Hygiene | New Jersey | Politics | Pregnancy | Students | Posted 2008-04-09 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Try Not to Taste or Touch Them, Okay?
Automated train station announcement: Castro street station.
Excited little girl: Yay! Castro!
Bystander: The dictator or the district?
Excited little girl thinks for a second: The rainbows!
Castro Street Station
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Dawn
Categories: Compare and contrast | Default | Girls | Kids | Names | Politics | Public Transportation | San Francisco | Weirdness | Words | Posted 2008-04-09 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
In Case You Were Wondering
American construction worker: See, you escaped communism. All I ever did was join the disco demolition night at Comisky park.
Polish construction worker: I didn't escape communism, I got kicked out. Big difference.
Chicago, Illinois
Categories: Compare and contrast | Construction workers | Coworkers | Default | Foreigners | Geography | Guys | History | Illinois | Politics | Words | Posted 2008-04-07 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
The French: "We're on Your Side?"
Professor: And the French, they?re only worth 2/3 of a person because, well, they?re on our side, but they don?t fight well.
Shout-out: www.overheardatumbc.com
Categories: Colleges & Universities | Compare and contrast | Default | Education | Geography | Guys | History | Insults | Overheard at UMBC | Politics | Teachers | Posted 2008-04-05 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Especially If He Were Standing Next to Me with a Machete
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.
Shout-out: eavesdropdc.blogspot.com
Overheard by:
Categories: Default | Eavesdrop DC | Gripes | Guys | Names | On the phone | Politics | Washington, DC | Posted 2008-03-27 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Wait'll She Finds Out God's Asian
Professor: We have to accept the fact that there are still individuals in this country who are horribly racist, who have a completely backwards system of beliefs... Now, I call that person 'Nana,' but that's neither here nor there.
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
Categories: Colleges & Universities | Default | Education | Family ties | Massachusetts | Politics | Teachers | Words | Posted 2008-03-23 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Couldn't We Just Discriminate Against People Wearing Explosive Clothing?
Bimbette: Well, discriminating against the Muslims is different than against, like, the Russians for Hitler and everything.
Archbishop Spalding High School
Severn, Maryland
Overheard by: Wait, is she kidding?
Categories: Bimbettes | Compare and contrast | Default | Geography | History | Maryland | Politics | School [Elem., Middle, & High] | Stupidity | Posted 2008-03-18 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
With a Scary Product
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...
Shout-out: eavesdropdc.blogspot.com
Overheard by:
Categories: Default | Eavesdrop DC | Geography | Girls | Guys | Politics | Questions | Stupidity | Washington, DC | Posted 2008-02-29 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
I'd Do Almost Anything for Dick
Teen girl: Hmmm. Nixon. I'd strip for Richard Nixon.
High school football game
Tucson, Arizona
Overheard by: At least our children know their American history.
Which I Would Know Absolutely Nothing About.
Poli-Sci professor on impeachment of federal judges: Once they're there, they're nearly impossible to remove... They just keep hanging in there... Kinda like herpes.
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Just the Lucky Ones, I Told 'Em
Woman: I was in Budapest and people would ask, 'Is everyone in America like Dick Cheney?' And I'm like, 'Fuck no!'
Shout-out: overheardinpdx.blogspot.com
Overheard by: rich
Categories: Chicks | Overheard in PDX | Politics | Posted 2007-10-28 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
But Otherwise Quite Civilized
Dude: Is it okay if I bring her to the party this evening? She's a Republican.
Bookstore
Florence, Oregon
Can't Wait 'til They Go Up against Hillary's Flying Monkeys
Girl #1: How come the pigeons don't die when they hop on that third rail?
Girl #2: Because they're Dick Cheney's unholy army of the night.
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: I'm glad I couldn't vote back then
Being President Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry
Visiting Chinese professor: We like Clinton for his love stories.
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Categories: Colleges & Universities | Oklahoma | Politics | Teachers | Posted 2007-05-19 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
