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Granted, I Cut Her, but They Still Owe Me Ten Bucks
Gay guy: I told them not to have hip-hop night cause a bitch would get cut. And what happened? A bitch got cut!
Outside The Hippo
Mt. Vernon, Mayrland
I Guess That's What They Want. What They Really, Really Want
Random guy, outside bank: I don't get it! It's like they're spending their money on Spice Girls tickets instead of drugs!
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Overheard by: irina
With the Possible Exception of the Dominant Chord
Professor: So, how was survey of western music?
Girl: It was terrible: someone would always find a way to bring up gender issues. I mean, I hate to break it to you, but eighteenth century tonal music doesn't give a shit about your vagina.
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, New York
Warthogs! Cabbages! Pokemon!
Professor: So, what are most songs written about?
Student #1: Apple bottom jeans?
Student #2: Boots with the fur?
School of Environmental Studies
Minnesota
Wait 'Til You Hear "Total Ellipses the Sun"
English professor, going over punctuation: We can fix this sentence by putting a comma here... and here... and here. See? Comma, comma, comma. [Breaks into song.] Comma-comma-comma-comma-comma chameleeeooon!
Community College
Palm Bay, Florida
But the Midget Got Taller, If You Know What I Mean
Police officer to college girls: It turns out there was a midget in the closet.
Downtown Palo Alto, California
Categories: California | Cops | Music | Weirdness | Posted 2008-06-01 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Dude, Just Make an Audio-Visual Geek Your Friend
Music history professor, putting a CD in the player: And now we pray to the god of CDs. It's not good to be a teacher with CDs. They are very stupid things. [Pause.] ...It's not good to be a teacher, perhaps that's what it is.
Peabody Conservatory
Baltimore, Maryland
They're Instrumental in Getting High?
Professor: So the wars of opium wars were fought because the Chinese didn't want their citizens smoking their bongos and being loopy.
Student: Wait, bongos?
Professor: Yeah those pipe things... Bongos, right?
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Overheard by: Erika
Material Boy Though I Am
Male professor: I'm sorry, I just can't sing "Some boys kiss me". I know that's desperately heteronormative, but I can't help it!
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Claire
Categories: Connecticut | Feelings | Gender issues | Guys | Music | Sexuality | Singing | Teachers | Posted 2008-05-16 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Strong Enough for a Man; Yummy Enough for Little Bobby
Little boy, singing: Should I stay or should I go now? If I stay I'll eat your armpits!
Newton, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Amy
Categories: Body parts | Kids | Massachusetts | Music | Questions | Singing | Threats | Weirdness | Posted 2008-05-12 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
His Life Is a Rich Tapestry of Loud Bullshit
50-ish white lady: He's a Christian rapper, but during the day he sells insurance.
Tempe, Arizona
Overheard by: Ashley
Even the White Album? C'mon Now!
Guy to friend: Dude, you just now figured out that The Beatles suck?
Public School
Las Vegas, Nevada
Anybody Seen Baryshnikov Lately?
Confused girl: Someone with an unknown number just called me twice. I, of course, ignored the calls. Then they left a voicemail of music from The Nutcracker...I have the feeling I'm about to be murdered.
Lexington, Kentucky
All Those Murdered Tomatoes...
College guy: I like salsa, but it makes me sad.
Duluth, Minnesota
Overheard by: Nic
Categories: Compare and contrast | Dancing | Feelings | Guys | Minnesota | Music | Yeahhh, college! | Posted 2008-04-23 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Since Barenaked Ladies Was Already Taken
Twenty-something dude: When I grow up, and learn how to play an instrument, I'm calling my band he-gina and she-nis.
McKenna's
Baltimore, Maryland
Categories: Age and ageing | Education | Guys | Maryland | Music | Names | Penis | Restaurants | Vagina | Words | Posted 2008-04-19 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Dude, You're Preaching to the Choir
Student: She thinks she's so good. She was probably the only soprano in her high school, so she was automatically the best. Or maybe she went to a school for like, people with severe burns. She was the best in the burn victim ward.
Westminster Choir College
Princeton, New Jersey
Overheard by: Gaby Young
Categories: Colleges & Universities | Compare and contrast | Education | Etiquette | Health & Hygiene | Music | New Jersey | Students | Weirdness | Posted 2008-04-17 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
His Parents Took Solace in Knowing He Would Be an "Aggressive" Gay
Kid #1, playing with blocks: This robot needs guns!
Kid #2: Pretend his hands are guns. [Pauses, then sings] Everybody dance now!
82nd and State
Kansas City, Kansas
Overheard by: BookVixen
A+
Black student, casually: Wait, let me get this straight: he was going to participate, but he was late, so he decided to hate, and that's what started this debate?
Teacher, baffled: Did you just rap that at me?
Columbia College Fiction Department
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: flunk_punk
Categories: Black people | Colleges & Universities | Default | Illinois | Music | Questions | Students | Teachers | Posted 2008-04-01 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Just Part of What It Means to Be an American
Dude: Is it strange that every time I hear opera, it makes me think of Looney Tunes?
Dallas, Texas
Overheard by: Rosie
Dakota Works for Chris Hansen
Little girl singing in the aisle: Hide the wiener, hide the wiener!
Target
Orlando, Florida
Overheard by: Stephanie
One Day He Will Write Lyrics for Christina Aguilera
Dad in locker room, to son: Jake, take your pants off.
Five-year-old son, singing: Take your pants off, do the ducky-ducky.
Dad: Jake!
Five-year-old son: Take your pants off, do the something-something.
Newport Athletic Club
Middletown, Rhode Island
Do They Count If You Have to Blow Them Up?
Music history professor: Darwin says that the sole purpose for living things is to survive and procreate. What about us, as musicians? Do we need music to survive and procreate? Well, some people believe that music was created as a sort of mating call. Compare the reproductive life of Jimi Hendrix to the reproductive life of... well, me.
Class: Um...
Music history professor: Well, clearly I win hands-down because of all my groupies.
1 East Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: stravinsky
Categories: Colleges & Universities | Compare and contrast | Default | Maryland | Music | Science | Sex | Students | Teachers | Posted 2008-03-18 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Like We Do at Funerals
Guy: Hey, the Pussycat Dolls are coming to Montreal!
Girl: Cool.
Guy: Wanna go?
Girl: Yeah! We can sit in the front row and masturbate!
Shout-out: www.overheardatmcgill.com
Overheard by:
Categories: Canadia | Colleges & Universities | Default | Girls | Guys | Masturbation | Music | Offers and requests | Overheard at McGill | TV shows | Posted 2008-03-16 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Definitely the Low Point of Any Bon Jovi Concert
Chubby guy on cell: You know it's bad when Bon Jovi shows up.
Target
Westminster, Maryland
Overheard by: JoviFan4Life
Categories: About celebrities | Maryland | Music | On the phone | Posted 2008-02-09 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
What's the Word for Ironic Irony?
Young hipster dude to older hipster dude: Man, fuck Yanni. That guy sucks. [Mocks his singing] 'The best part of waking up...' Wait, no, that's Michael Bolton. Wait, no, that's Folgers!
Blue line Metro
Washington, DC
Overheard by: Laughing at that guy
Categories: Hipsters | Music | Washington, DC | Posted 2008-01-22 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
He's Got to Be More Careful with His Fingering!
Dave Matthews Band groupie: Dude, the violinist totally screwed Dave up. He, like, totally blew his wad all over Dave's song!
Starwood Amphitheater merchandise stand
Nashville, Tennessee
Categories: About celebrities | Gripes | Guys | Music | Tennessee | Posted 2008-01-13 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Probably the Best Way to Play Showtunes
American tween boy, about show tune blaring through iPod earphones: I can play this on my armpit.
Heathrow Airport
London
England
They Also Recalibrated the Gay Scale
College boy, laughing: You mean to tell me you think the Beatles changed music forever?
Mom: Yes, of course.
College boy, still laughing: Come on, Mom -- with those 45-percent-gay haircuts?
Art Institute of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Categories: Frat boy types | Music | Pennsylvania | Posted 2007-10-11 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
I Want to Stay Down -- Like George Michael
Small boy, dancing and singing: Wake me up before you go-go, I don't ever wanna be a yo-yo!
Hallmark store
Duluth, Minnesota
Overheard by: Nic
Categories: Glad the condom broke | Minnesota | Music | Posted 2007-10-08 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
... And My Boogie Sense Is Tingling
Dancing lady, about soca music: Do you like this music?
Five-year-old boy: No, I don't like music... except Spider-Man music.
Dancing lady: So, you don't dance?
Five-year-old boy: No... I only dance when I'm naked.
Harbourfront, Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Pandora
Because If So, You'll Have to Add the Sexy Dance
Little girl, singing: Hey! I'm a crazy bitch, but I fuck so good you're on top of it when you dream of doing me all night...
Father: What the fuck?! Are you trying to get taken by the social worker?!
Food Court, Connecticut Post Mall
Milford, Connecticut
Categories: Connecticut | Dads | Music | Should have used a condom | Posted 2007-09-15 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
But My Anal Beads Respond Better to The Cure
Chick #1, perusing CDs: The Ramones? I've never really listened to them. Are they any good?
Chick #2: Oh, yeah, I listen to them all the time when I'm using my vibrator!
Shout-out: overheardina2.blogspot.com
Overheard by: chris
Categories: Chicks | Music | Overheard in Ann Arbor | Toys | Posted 2007-08-20 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
According to This Fortune Cookie
Extremely drunk man: You know, I don't think prime numbers are going to introduce us to aliens... But I think Chuck Berry will.
The Old Hole
Denver, Colorado
Overheard by: E
See, Now I'm on Coke, and I Can Tell the Truth
Lady: When I was on morphine I told them I liked Pearl Jam. I hate Pearl Jam!
Eat 'N' Park
Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Categories: Gripes | Grumpies | Music | Pennsylvania | Posted 2007-07-27 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Say Bye-Bye to the '90s, Mom
Mom: But dear, you must like swing music. It's simply infectious!
Five-year-old daughter: Mom, I do not like swing music.
Sacramento, California
Overheard by: I don't like swing music either
Categories: California | Kids | Moms | Music | Posted 2007-07-09 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Exactly What Princess Superstar Is Going For
Dude: I'm not saying I don't like this song, it's just that it always strikes me as the kind of song that people with Down Syndrome would dance to.
Sacramento, California
Overheard by: Megan Mama
Categories: California | Guys | Music | Posted 2007-07-08 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
In My Father's Store, There Are Many Departments
Guy #1: Who's Ian Gillan?
Guy #2: You know, the guy in Deep Purple? He was also in Jesus Christ Superstore.
Long Beach
Categories: About celebrities | California | Guys | Idiots | Music | Names | Pop culture | Stupidity | Posted 2007-06-24 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
You Mean I Got These Knuckle Tattoos for Nothing?
Crazy lady with fanny pack, after hearing "Emotion" by the Bee Gees on loudspeaker: Love is not an emotion!
Wal-Mart
Oakdale, Louisiana
Overheard by: Vicky
And You Just Know That's His Porn Name
Chick: So, what are your irrational fears?
Dude: Well, I'm afraid of that song. You know, the John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt one. I mean, 'that's my name, too'? What does that mean?! I mean, think about it's larger sociological implications. That just freaks me out.
Shout-out: overheardinthevalley.blogspot.com
Categories: Dorks, Geeks & Nerds | Music | Overheard in the Valley | Posted 2007-04-09 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini? Really?
Chick #1, about techno music blasting from shop: What does this song make you think of?
Chick #2: Being stabbed repeatedly in the eye with a rusty nail.
Chick #1: [Silence.]
Chick #2: What about you?
Chick #1: Discos...
Sawnston Street and Flinders Street
Australia
Buddy, We've Got It Taken Care Of
Girl in sleeping bag outside music club to stranger walking by: Yeah, okay, we're waiting for a Hanson concert. Wanna make fun of us now?
Shout-out: overheardlines.blogspot.com
Overheard by: isaac