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Plastics Were So 1967
Suit on cell: But yeah, concrete is the future.
Metairie Road
Metairie, Louisiana
Overheard by: What happened to plastic?
Categories: Advice | Default | Louisiana | On the phone | Suits | Technology | Posted 2008-06-24 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Every Time I Try That, I Lose Some Memory
Mom: Arrrrgh. My brain just isn't working today!
Eight-year-old (deadpan): Did you try turning it off and on again?
Steveston
Canadia
Overheard by: laughing sangria out my nose
Perhaps Some Clove Cigarettes Would Help
Geek #1: But I'm a semi-Mac user! I can't have a beard and be a Mac user!
Geek #2: Yeah, I know what you mean...
Memorial University
Newfoundland
Canadia
Overheard by: Beardless Mac User
Categories: Canadia | Colleges & Universities | Compare and contrast | Default | Dorks, Geeks & Nerds | Friends | Hair | Shaving | Technology | Posted 2008-06-18 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
When Shown That They Do Exist, He Fainted
Grungy dude, pointing to expensive vacuum: You should get this one. It sucks up everything!
Girlfriend: Yeah, but I don't have much carpet. I need, like, a Broom Vac or something.
Grungy dude: A Broom Vac?! Put down the crack pipe!
Target
Baltimore, Maryland
Categories: Advice | Compare and contrast | Couples | Default | Drugs | Girls | Guys | Maryland | Stores | Technology | Posted 2008-06-07 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
The Environment Thanks You, Citizen!
Woman browsing through dildos at a sex shop: Do you have any of these that plug in? I run through batteries too fast.
Toledo, Ohio
Overheard by: Cap
Categories: Masturbation | Offers and requests | Ohio | Technology | Toys | Women | Posted 2008-05-29 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Also to Make Julienne Fries
Freshman #1: I really use a time machine.
Freshman #2: What for?
Freshman #1: Time travel, dumbass.
Northwestern University
Illinois
Categories: Colleges & Universities | Guys | Illinois | Questions | Students | Technology | Time Management | Posted 2008-05-26 | 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
We'd Be Wide Awake, but Our Cards Would Be Stained
Guy playing magic card game with a bunch of friends: All I'm saying is that somewhere, in an alternate universe, there is a table producing coffee!
Clark College
Vancouver, Washington
Categories: Colleges & Universities | Food | Philosophy | Technology | Washington | Weirdness | Posted 2008-05-18 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
You Expected More from a Stoner at McDonald's?
Stoner #1: Do you have telekinesis?
Stoner #2: No, but I got call-waiting and that three-way call thing.
McDonald's
Escondido, California
Overheard by: DLo
Categories: Bragging | California | Compare and contrast | Friends | Guys | McDonald's | Stoners | Stupidity | Technology | Words | Posted 2008-04-26 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.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 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
2008: Microsoft Pilots MS Office Assistant, "Buzzy the Dildo"
Guy: You know when you do a "Find File" in Windows? Yeah. I want to kill the little animated dog... It bothers me.
Girl: Hahaha... Yeah. It's better than the paperclip.
Guy: Meh... Only because he doesn't pop up unexpectedly. Clippy was kind of cool if he weren't in the way.
Girl: Thats what he wants you to think! He makes you feel bad for hating him!
Guy: Why this makes me want to have an animated kitten running around my desktop, I don't know. I used to have such a program.
Girl: I had a stripper on my laptop. She danced and stripped whenever music came on.
Guy: You're such a closet nympho.
Girl: Yeah. For my dreams class, we have to write all our dreams down and share them with the class. Last night I dreamt I was trekking through a jungle in gold prada heels to find my doctor to get an HIV test. I'm not sure I want the class psychoanalyzing that one.
Portland, Maine
Figures a Robot Would Be Teaching Sex Ed
Professor, hitting mic and causing feedback: Oops, sorry. [Whispering to self] It's my android nature.
Human Sexuality class, UCSC
Santa Cruz, California
Categories: California | Teachers | Technology | Posted 2008-02-18 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Be Careful It Doesn't Squirt You in the Eye
Guy on cell: Now turn it on and set it to cow mode... Right, but be sure it's in cow mode... No, you'll know when it's in cow mode.
Kroger Grocery
Conway, Arkansas
Overheard by: Not sure I want to know
Categories: Advice | Animals | Arkansas | On the phone | Technology | Posted 2008-01-29 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Just Keep Walking, Beatrice
Older lady: What's a whiffy?
Man, confused: What's... a whiffy?
Older lady: Right there! It says, 'Free whiffy' -- W-I-F-I.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Overheard by: Jen
Categories: Florida | Old folks | Technology | Words | Posted 2008-01-26 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Sean Looks for Any Excuse to Buy a Purse
Dude playing Wii: That's gonna be my one year anniversary with my Wii. I should take it out and buy it a purse...
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Overheard by: Russ
Categories: Bonding | Dorks, Geeks & Nerds | New York | Technology | Posted 2007-12-12 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Have a Relatively Explosion-Free Day, Everybody!
TSA guy #1: Why aren't you patting everyone down?
TSA guy #2: That's what the machines are for.
TSA guy #1: Do you see the machines working?! Do you see anyone walking through the machines?!
TSA guy #2: Oh. Oops. Oh, well, it happens.
Denver International Airport
Denver, Colorado
Overheard by: Stephanie
Categories: Colorado | Coworkers | Technology | Posted 2007-12-06 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Give Him a Break. It's Kentucky.
Man walking through automatic doors: Wow, it's the store of the future. The doors open by themselves!
Louisville, Kentucky
Categories: Idiots | Kentucky | Technology | Posted 2007-12-04 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Or Am I Just That High?
TA: You'll need a watch to keep track of how long your stories are.
Sorostitute: I have one!
TA: Is it analog or digital?
Sorosititute, after looking at watch for a few seconds: ... It has diamonds!
Broadcasting Journalism lab, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Overheard by: Don't rush for HER sorority
Categories: Florida | Sorority types | Stupidity | Teachers | Technology | Posted 2007-10-19 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
And the Cat Keeps Eating It
Customer: I want to return this mouse.
CSR: Okay. May I ask why?
Customer: No, you'll laugh at me.
CSR: I promise I won't.
Customer: Every time I move it around it squeaks.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canadia
Categories: Canadia | Customers | Technology | Posted 2007-09-30 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
No, It's Not because I Couldn't Contact You, It's because That Would Mean You Were Cool
Guy #1: Oh, sorry, man. I forgot to tell you about it... If you were on Facebook, I would have invited you.
Guy #2, pissed: ... I live two doors down from you!
Shout-out: www.overheardatmcgill.com
Categories: Canadia | Gripes | Guys | Overheard at McGill | Students | Technology | Posted 2007-08-17 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Did You Buy the Catastrophic Event Warranty?
Woman: Excuse me, my phone doesn't work. What should I do?
Salesman: What happened to your phone?
Woman: Well, my two year old son poured chocolate syrup on it, so I soaked it in the sink with dish soap to get it off.
Shout-out: overheardinlakecounty.blogspot.com
Categories: Cell phones | Gadgets | Moms | Parents | Technology | Posted 2007-06-21 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
And Odds Are They'll Both Reproduce
Bimbette #1: Hey, ummm, how do I get my files out of the computer?
Bimbette #2: Wait... The computers are also filing cabinets?! No, wait -- I don't think they are...
Bimbette #1: But isn't that where we get the papers?
Bimbette #2: What?
Bimbette #1: What?
Honesdale High School
Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Alex Lepro
Categories: Bimbettes | Pennsylvania | School [Elem., Middle, & High] | Technology | Posted 2007-04-28 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Oh, Steam. Got It.
Client: We need a giant steam head rising above the booth.
Agency president: Why?
Client: Because people love steam. They're drawn to it. It's the power and magic of steam I'm talking about here!
Shout-out: adverbatims.blogspot.com
Categories: AdVerbatims | Clients | Technology | Posted 2007-04-13 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
