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Penn student #1, looking at sculpture: Oh my god, I, like, totally hate art.
Penn student #2: I know, right? They should just buy us all laptops instead.
Locust Walk
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Chick: That guy's not a real bum -- he has a laptop!
Brown Line
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Whitney Wrobel
Guy to girlfriend: I like when we're both using our laptops and I lick your nipple and it shocks me, like licking a nine-volt battery.
Palo Alto, California
Nerd #1: You know, we never really have to grow up. We just have to know when to act like we're actually adults.
Nerd #2 with laptop: Shut up, I'm watching Batman: The Animated Series.
Shout-out: overheardatcornell.blogspot.com
Overheard by: doug