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Boy #1: I'm gonna take out my iPhone and post these pictures on YouTube.
Boy #2: You can't post photos on YouTube.
Boy #1: Fine, I'll post them on Facebook.
Boy #2: You don't have a Facebook.
Boy #1: I'll e-mail them to your mom. She posts everything on Facebook.
Central Islip, New York
Overheard by: Val
Woman: I'm glad all my friendships are online!
Melbourne
Australia
Man walking down the street: I ordered a dress online and got a raincoat.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Laura
Drunk guy: If kiddie porn is such a huge problem on the internet, how come you can't ever find it?
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Why Don't You Have A Seat Over Here...
Female friend: I think there are no nude pictures of me... (pause) ...On the internet.
Münster
Germany
Old lady: Are you able to check the weather in Toronto?
Young guy: No, the internet can't reach that far.
Old lady: Oh.
Windsor
Ontario
Canadia
Girl #1: You should stop meeting guys off the internet so much. They're creepy.
Girl #2: The internet is the best place to meet people. I met a rapist at a job interview, a pimp at the airport, and a pedophile at church.
Norman, Oklahoma
Little old lady to another as they part ways: Have a pleasant day, and don't forget to google!
Little old lady #2: What?
Little old lady #1: Google!
Union Station
Chicago, Illinois
Girl on cell: She feels Facebook ruined their relationship.
Bus
Malmö
Sweden
University student: But it must be true... I read it on the internet! I read it on Wikipedia!
Auckland
New Zealand
Overheard by: Louise
Old Midwestern lady #1: All these kids bringing their videos games everywhere!
Old Midwestern lady #2: It's depressing! My son-in-law brings his laptop everywhere. Always on the internet.
Old Midwestern lady #1: Is he using one of those blueberries? Or blackpods?
Old Midwestern lady #2: I don't know, I'm just glad I'm old.
Newark, New Jersey
Overheard by: thankfully on a different flight
Butchy girl: All I know is, I'm never going to Tennesse again.
Femmy girl: Dude, I told you! That is why you google "gay Tennesse" first!
Hazel Park, Michigan
Overheard by: Beth
Passerby, to himself: Man, they should totally make Google a wonder of the world. I mean, they already have Hollywood and shit.
Technology Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Rachael Johnson
Teen, trying to convince friends: He wasn't lying! It was on Facebook!
Shout-out: feeds.feedburner.com
Overheard by: the usher
Professor: So I was looking through your online homework and I tried out the first question and I got it wrong. So I suggest you google the answer. You can find anything on google.
Bellingham, Washington
Overheard by: Condones This
Man: She said that? She has nude pictures on the internet! How can you compare me to her?
Emergency Room
Westchester, New York
Girl: Dude, Wikipedia "Rasputin" and ctrl+f "penis."
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Claire
Pilot #1: He flew to Myrtle Beach to meet some girl he met online. We were expecting to find him naked in a bathtub full of ice missing a kidney.
Flight attendant: Who would want his kidney? He's so short!
Pilot #2: Hey, kids need kidneys too! Little kids!
Atlanta, Georgia
Girl: Sometimes I like to look at pictures of deaf people online. They don't look any different!
Shout-out: feeds.feedburner.com
Overheard by: Ian
Girl #1: So my mom is getting married to that guy she met on the internet.
Girl #2: Internet? He might be a serial killer!
Girl #1: Yeah, but she lives in Florida, so at least I don't have to hear about it.
Bathrooms
Cinema, Illinois
Big, sweaty man: No, you need to stay offa that Facebook, offa that MySpace, because when they need evidence, that's where they look first.
Columbus, Ohio
Overheard by: slightly suspicious
Private junior high school boy #1: Oh my god, so the other day someone hacked onto my Facebook account and changed everything to gay. My activities were gay, my favorite movies were gay, I was even interested in men!
Private junior high school boy #2, without irony: Dude, that's so gay.
Toronto
Canadia
Woman #1: Do you want to become a judge?
Woman #2: No way!
Woman #1: Why not?
Woman #2: I have too many naked photos on the internet out there of me!
Coffee Shop
Salt Lake City
Overheard by: Snazzy
Blonde girl: I did this Facebook quiz the other day: "what kind of drunk are you?' It said that I was a "sexual, entertaining drunk." It knows me so well!
Melbourne
Australia
Flight attendant: As you depart the aircraft, please check your area for any personal belongings. If you leave anything behind, please make sure that it can either be split three ways or that we can sell it on eBay. Thanks for flying Southwest!
Buffalo, New York
Overheard by: robyn
Drunken girl: I don't know, Luke, I'm just sick and tired of people who want to sit in their rooms and watch YouTube videos and eat sherbert.
Drunken guy: You don't like sherbert?
Drunken girl: No, I like it... but only with adventure.
Drunken guy: I wanted adventure. I feel kind of bad, though, that I didn't experiment enough.
Drunken girl: With what?
Drunken guy: With guys. I don't know, it just hasn't happened.
Drunken girl: Well, don't rush it. If you let it happen naturally, it will.
Drunken guy: But what if I don't like it? And say, "No, this isn't for me"?
Drunken girl: Let's go eat something.
Drunken guy: Sherbert?
Drunken girl: Yep.
Claremont, California
Girl: So we decided to be friends.
Friend: Wait, in real life or on Facebook?
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Overheard by: krr
Girl on cell: At least I never got kicked off of Facebook!
UCLA
California
Overheard by: what...?
Girl #1: She defriended me!
Girl #2: Well, that explains the shoes.
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Guy: I am making this shitty 50% less sodium Progresso chicken noodle soup. Tastes like penis!
Girl: Always an appealing taste.
Guy: If I ever get a twitter, that's my first status.
Girl: I'm tempted to get one. (pause) A twitter, not a penis.
University of Kansas
Guy: Wait, Langston Hughes was gay? Damn, now I gotta take him off my Facebook.
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Girl in stall: Hi, can you put mom on the phone? (pause) Hey mom, yeah, it's me...next time you're online, go to my Facebook page and check out the pictures of me at the strip club.
Ladies Restroom, Library
Mississippi
Guy: So she googled me, and found the thing from the dance-off with my balls hanging out! It's the first thing that comes up!
www.overheardatyale.com
Overheard by: Overheard at Yale
College sorostitute: Well, I thought we'd been dating for, like, 3 months. But then I looked at his Facebook profile, and it said "single."
Non-slutty college friend: You had to use Facebook to...
College sorostitute: Also, did you know he had a kid?
Charleston, South Carolina
Overheard by: Nuddles
Curly-haired brunette: Do you ever have moments when you see someone on the street and think, "hmmm, that looks like someone I've seen in Facebook pictures!"?
Straight-haired brunette: Yeah. I also have moments when I see someone on the street and think, "haven't I slept with you?"
Curly-haired brunette: Heh. That's a classic.
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Poogins
Girl: My friends are always saying I need to make a Facebook page and I'm like, "Why? I talk to you a-holes enough already!"
Shout-out: feeds.feedburner.com
Overheard by: sleeping on the job
Ditz to friend: He took me Facebook poking him as a romantic gesture!
TC Central High School
Michigan
Girl on line: Guess what! I watched a video about Jews on YouTube today!
Girl next to her, embarrassed: Shhhh!
Bear's Den, Washington University
St Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Scandalized
Professor, on last day of sex addiction class: I'm putting a website on the board for anyone who's interested in more information on how to become a certified sex addict.
(entire class cheers)
Professor: I meant "sex addiction therapist."
Student to another: He just spent a whole semester telling us that sex addiction isn't fun. Clearly we didn't catch on.
Chestnut Hill College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hip daughter: Mom, is that the same guy?
Hip mom: No.
Hip daughter: Then why do they sound the exact same?
Hip mom: Because they're Jewish.
Hip daughter: Really?
Hip mom: No.
Hip daughter (laughing): Oh my god! Mom! That's...
Hip mom: Don't quote me on Facebook.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Overheard by: robert taylor
Roommate: My dad asked me today if our engagement was Facebook official.
Michigan
College girl #1: I mean, they send people to those turn-straight camps, maybe they have a turn-gay camp.
College girl #2: Oh, let's go google it!
Virginia
Overheard by: Sasha
Serious philosophy teacher: Captain Crunch has been raped.
High School
Bethesda, Maryland
Overheard by: clementine
Teenage boy to father: I've been talking to a Thai lady on the internet and, I'll bring her to New Zealand for only $50,000!
Father: Is she genuine?
Teenage boy: Genuine Thai lady-boy!
Auckland
New Zealand
Overheard by: Tessa
Friend #1: God! Old people get so pissy when they don't get their obituaries on time.
Friend #2: Why?
Friend #1: Because they want to know which of their friends has died that week.
Friend #2: Oh, so it's like Facebook for the elderly!
Memorial Hospital
Sudbury
Ontario, Canadia
Overheard by: Dani
College girl: I don't want to spam twenty people! I just want to know what fucking Disney princess I am!
Hofstra University
Long Island, New York
Gay man: So, did you end up fucking that guy from eHarmony?
Blondie: Sort of. When I was blowing him he told me to stop and I said, "No way, I'm just getting started!" And then he said, "Seriously, stop, I don't want to blow in your face."
Gay man: That's like true love. You should use that story for your eHarmony commercial.
Central Illinois
Young kid #1: I think I am going to make one of those eHarmony profiles to get a girlfriend.
Young kid #2: I think Dr Phil can help me.
Teton County Library
Jackson, Wyoming
Overheard by: Kate
Student: Hermaphrodites have everything. They have the whole package.
Professor: Yeah, hermaphrodites have it all. I've seen it on the internet.
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Claire
Tutor: Wikipedia is not homework!
University of Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: Kiri
Drunk girl: I love cheese! It's because I eat so much of it, it's my number one interest on Facebook!
Streetcar
Toronto
Canadia
20-something girl #1: So she's dating him and has spent the night at his place, but he's still in the middle of a divorce.
20-something girl #2: ...and she doesn't know his last name?
20-something girl #1: Yep.
20-something girl #2: And he's her boss.
20-something girl #1: Yep. I told her to google him or look at his business card.
20-something girl #2: I don't understand any of this. I've never googled myself, actually. Have you?
20-something girl #1: Yeah, you should try it! It makes you feel famous.
20-something girl #2, to herself: All that came up when I did it was porn.
Northbound Caltrain
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: A Cheek
Wild-haired diner outside restaurant (seriously): If I don't get tenure next year, I don't know what I'll do. I'll have to ... I don't know ... I'll have to just blog about it.
Bloomsbury, London
England
Very serious, very excited young woman: He's finally becoming a person! He got Facebook and he texts full-sized messages!
Owatonna, Minnesota
Overheard by: feels sorry for those without technology...
Girl #1: It's just that I feel like Amazon is judging me.
Girl #2: Why?
Girl #1: I bought one gay erotica book and now it wants me to buy Japanese porn.
Starbucks
Ukiah, California
Pilot: And if you have any comments or questions, go ahead and look me up on Facebook.
Vancouver
Canadia
Professor: Temperature is an example of an invented reality. Temperature doesn't exist. It's all in our minds. It's either hot or cold out, but what are "degrees" really? Nothing!
Student: Actually, temperature is scientifically calculated by... (goes on to give long, technical explanation)
Professor: Really? I'm going to have to go look that up on Wikipedia. I get all of my information from Wikipedia.
University of Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Glad you're teaching us then...
Mother: You got into college!
Teenage daughter: I can finally join Facebook!
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Distraught sorority girl: My mom won't accept my friend request on Facebook!
Sisters, collectively: Awwwwww.
Social Psychology Class
Florida
Overheard by: Dr. Ian Maxwell von Indypants
Thug on cell: Fuck off, man. Don't even try arguing with me. I'm a fucking expert on this shit. I wikipedia-ed it last night.
Carousel Mall
Syracuse, New York
Girl: He stopped calling on me in class for a while after I started his fan club on facebook.
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Claire
Hot chick: I'm having a fantasia party; I made it a facebook event: Are you going to come?
Clueless girl: Whats a fantasia party?
Hot chick: Its for like chicks only, you hang out, drink and buy naughty stuff.
Clueless girl: I don't get it?
Hot chick: What's there to get? You come to my place, get drunk and buy sexy, naughty things?
Clueless girl: I still don't get it.
Hot chick: Holy fuck! Its like a Tupperware party -only with dildos!
Ottawa
Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: Make Mine 9 Inches!
Professor: When you're late, Eric* will take down your name. The first time he'll just tack a threatening note on your door. What did we decide you would do for the second tardy?
Eric: Slash their tires.
Professor: Right. And the third time we'll make pornographic images of you on Photoshop and put them on the Internet.
Hartford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Claire
Biology professor: Hey, didn't they discover that process in corals?
Grad student: No, they discovered that in plants.
Biology professor: That's what I just said!
Grad student: But coral is not a plant.
Biology professor: What? Yes, it is!
Grad student: No, it's not, it's an animal!
Biology professor: Since when?
Grad student: Since always -- go look it up!
Biology professor, after disappearing for five minutes: Fucking Wikipedia...
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: How'd you get this job, anyway?
Girl #1: So, did you MapQuest it?
Girl #2: No, we gas-stationed it!
Tyler, Texas
Overheard by: emi
Girl to another: We'll figure it out. I'll Facebook your ass or something.
Shout-out: community.livejournal.com
Overheard by:
Sorostitute: But it was on his Facebook! Facebook doesn't lie!
Textbook return, University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
Overheard by: bunguin
Girl: Yeah, there's a Facebook group called 'I'm a fermata, hold me.'
Professor: What?
Girl: You know, Facebook? YouTube?
Professor: What?!
Girl: You know, like, the Internet?
Professor: I know about the Internet! I know!
Sarah Lawrence College
New York
Creepster: There are so many internet cats in my life I can't keep them all straight!
301 Heller Drive
Santa Cruz, California
Girl on cell: Did you write it on my Facebook? Was it perverted or mean? Yeah? Good.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadia
Chick: Hey, how was your reading week?
Dude: Okay. I just went home, did nothing. How was yours?
Chick: It was good. I went to Florida.
Dude: Yeah, I saw some pic---tures... [Awkward silence.] Well, I'll see ya.
Shout-out: overheardatwestern.blogspot.com
Overheard by: alex