OVERHEARD

Smartest high school student in the world (as part of a long pontification): "Was it Nixon or Reagan who ended the gold standard. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was Nixon. Nixon was pretty much the worst president ever."

Summer Casual: "Yeah, it's all the fault of politically correct lefties like the Daily Mail. They just want our children to die."

She's going to university this year.

She has just got worse: "We went swimming with his brother and it was dead funny, he looked anorexic. Oh they always make me laugh, them, with their bones sticking out."

hahaha, how long have you got her for? also, I know where you work, don't they have some sort of quality control on staff?

I don't know when she starts university. One of us may have choked her by then.

We don't necessarily do much in the way of checks over summer casuals, mainly because we don't give them anything important to do and also because they're usually the children of staff (so are already legally covered by bits of legislation).

two african american women browsing a selection of plaid head scarves at the j crew: "what is this? this is, like, SLAVE style!"

"You've gotta make sure you keep you McNuggets safe!"

WTF????

"Now SARah says that brings out the Romeo in me, but ReBECca says that it brings out the Little Lord Fontelroy in me. But the thing is [leaning forward, very earnestly now], I'm both."

hahaahah

Two thin or average sized girls coming out of cafe:

girlone: "I don't know any huge people who don't eat a lot"
girltwo: "So it is that simple!"

hilarious thread.

At law school today.

Guy: Oh yeah, Facebook. Man, Facebook is like the online version of apartheid.
Girl: Hmm?
Guy: You know how there's like these big feud between Myspace and Facebook, like they're saying Facebook is the upscale, smarter version of Myspace.
Me(under my breath): wtf? douche.

guy walking down vermont yelling into his phone: "he was holding a fucking gun and barking at me in spanish! i freaked out!"

Trashy girl to her (supposed) mother

Lin-gurr-ie, it's not lingerie, that's why I say Lin-gurr-ie.

bus driver (northbound 206 on normandie tonight, after arriving way way later than he was supposed to) to disgruntled passengers getting on: "if i'm an hour late, how come you didn't just WALK? you wouldn't have to wait if you used those feet of yours. what are you doing out at this time of night anyway?"

i'm all for walking, but maybe koreatown at 10:30pm isn't the best time or place.

how are you supposed to know that he's going to be an hour late? if u walk he'll roll by you in between stops obv

i've never been the kind of asshole that has tried to get someone fired, but i think on tuesday i'm gonna give metro a call about this dude.

Posh English woman talking to a seller at a car boot sale, "sometimes I get a feeling from them and, (shivers) I don't buy anything from them".

2 women behind me in the library (where it's pretty quiet) - "Well, I don't know, I don't think I should have any hairs on my chest"

"I was throwing up, OK!"

One of my classmates at lunch: "Myspace is so DISTRACTING!"

One of thoses, "funny coz it's true" things...plus her tone of voice was so funny.

not really "overheard," but: yesterday i was on hollywood blvd and passed a street musician who was pounding out doomy metallica riffs on his guitar while tourists milled about on the walk of fame. i looked down and noticed he was standing on the peter frampton star. so adorable!

A girl in the class room next door to the one I was in: "So it's like the goat one! But I got the goat one...I liked the goat one."

*Shakes head*...ok??

http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/satyr.jpg

The goat one.

Yesterday: "I mean does your face tell you that you're gay?"

http://www.punknews.org/images/covers/the_jesus_lizard-goat.jpg
xp

woman on street to six-year-old girl: "you're not gonna tell on me for using the N-word, right? it's just sometimes i see so much trash on the street and..."

At Dutchess County Fair last month:

One average looking man to another: They need to bring Charo back.

G: Did I hear what I think I did?
Me: YES

Camp voice in a shop "that's like something my gran used to wear when she was dead"

some recording studio guy in a cafe on selma and cahuenga, talking to his lunch companion:

"you know the band the jesus lizard? their singer will not perform a note until he is COMPLETELY drunk."

Some girl walking past me today : "yeah dp's, I can take 'em or leave 'em". I guess she was talking about something other than what I thought she was talking about.

Ok...this is more of a story of someone over hearing me...But it made me laugh so hard today.

Me: He kept trying to ask me out. And he asked me to marry him and I was all like NO!!!

Religion Teacher (male) in the other room I was walking by: "He asked me to marry him and I was all like NO!!!"

Me: Oh, shi...Hi! *Waves*

Last Saturday I was at the Brewey Arts complex open house (bunch of artists' studios) here in L.A. and was walking through a gallery there that had some chess sets and photographs of people with chess sets. One of the photos had a woman in it who I thought looked a lot like the actress that plays Mel on Flight of the Conchords, and as I turned away to the next piece I heard some guy behind me say "blah, blah, Jemaine" which I thought was a wierd coincidence that someone would say the name Jermaine and even pronounce it without the "R" like the FotC character after I had just thought about Mel. Then I figured it was someone who noticed the same resemblance and was making a joke ("I wonder if she's playing Jemaine, huh, huh" or some such). So I turn around to see if he was looking at the photo and maybe comment that she does indeed look like Mel. I see it is some older guy walking with the actual Mel (!!!) and she answers him something like "Jemaine's in New Zealand." They walk past and go into a side room so I didn't have time to say anything (plus she was talking to him and walking purposefully, so I probably wouldn't have anyway). I was thinking I would have said something if she was standing there alone like "Mel, I'm your biggest fan" although I may have thought of that after she was gone. Also I didn't know her real name, which is kind of embarrasing.

I was going to post this on the Flight of the Conchords thread, but it seems better here.

Out in the rain today, an old lady walked past me with her umbrella up, turned to me and said "You have to get wet, to get wet". I just looked baffled and walked on.

Andrew WK in disguise, obv.

Old drunk homeless dude muttering to himself. Ambulance goes past, lights and sirens a plenty.

"YOU'LL NEVER SELL ANY ICE CREAMS GOING THAT FAST!"

Kristen Schaal was in town performing at UCB and writing for South Park.

a classic xpost

homeless dude otm

REALLY REALLY DRUNK GUY ON A BIKE: I try to ride in the street, but those cars won't slow down.
ME: Well, you do have the right of way.
RRDGOAB: You got a quarter?
ME: No.
RRDGOAB: Got a dime?
ME: No.
RRDGOAB: I got nothin'.
ME: You got a bike.
RRDGOAB: Do you want it?

Dude in secondhand record store standing next to me, talking to the cashier... going through the new arrivals bin.

"yeah man, big black, awesome. You got any RAPEMAN? YEah thats Albini too. Songs about FUCKING, man"

I mean, I know he was all on an Albini tip and whatever but did he have to emphasise the RAPEMAN and FUCKING so loudly? Didn't impress me dude.

Gaggle of exceedingly Geordie guys in a lift:

"'e's a brussel"

"Yeah, 'e's a brussel"

"No 'e ain't a brussel"

"Yeah 'e is 'cause 'e worked for this other company before..."

?!?!?!?!

That "YOU'LL NEVER SELL ANY ICE CREAMS GOING THAT FAST!" from a bit earlier in the thread is a Morecambe and Wise classic, by the way:

http://kakapojayne.blogspot.com/2007/02/with-apologies-to-morecambe-wise.html

As I walked into the department this morning, I heard the oldest living working lecturer here (probably in London--dude's like 80), shout out: OH, FUCK YOU!. As I walked past his office I noticed that he was alone in there, not on the phone, with the computer off.

So he was shouting at you?

Nah, he shouted it before I came into view. Pretty much all my students every year complain about his lectures, think he's senile, etc. Ah, tenure.

I like him. What's his subject/specialism?

English--17th/18th century.

I'm macabre. I think I freak stoners out.
-- Some guy at Squat & Gobble wearing a Gatsby who seemed to be some kind of Home Depot manager type

Really long monologue by mid-30s woman on PATH including
"We decided against that Benz - it got the worst ratings from consumer reports"
"See I'd never cheat on my husband. We've got the condo together, we've got all these investments..."
"I find myself thinking 'I wish I'd done Thomas, I wish I did David, I wish I had Andy."
"A 25-year old guy can't even make the decision to get married."
"My mom asked all of us whether we thought she should get back together with dad. Everyone who said no, she stopped talking to them...(a few seconds later) I had the best mom."

"He's got Assburgers Syndrome, so he gets turned on by wearing women's shoes"

--Part of a LOLheavy 20 minute conversation between two 16 yr old girls on the train.

"I never had any kids until I had my first."

was eating lunch next to these people

person a: yeah, she doesn't come home til late
person b: oh he's white?
a: i don't even see when she comes in...yeah
b: oh he's not asian. 'cause he's white. they're all like that
a: she comes home like at 2 or 3am. she's not dating him anymore though
b: oh now she's with the korean guy?
a: yeah
b: oh that's why. all koreans do is drink and go out til late
a: well because she got it from the first guy, now she wants to keep doing it

lol

"I don't want to just run to suburbia like other christians. Run and hide".

- on the bus

"You could have had the best escort agency in the world but because of my view you won't be making 100 grand. Because of my view!"

- to phone held in front of face, gesticulating with other hand.

"you speak really good english!"

"well i have been here 61 years"

"some of em come over and dont speak a word!"

"ive no time for them whatever, especially british transport police, they probably couldnt even find Appleby

26 years it took them to find me, they aren't the sharpest tools in the box, I'm not paying my licence fee. A million pounds thats what they pay bloody Lineker

there is no way a semi-literate police constable is going to write my statement

the governor general of the bbc presided over the jimmy saville case and got a £2m pay rise!

the thing about these people, is they way laugh all the way to the bank

the boss of network rail got 300k for trains running a little closer to the time. isnt that supposed to be his job

pendolino crash, negative maintenance report. did he resign? course he bloody he didn't

its like that bloody blair, one of my friends is a champagne socialist. blair was in the miners club in sedgefield. he was in the back having a bloody glass of wine. Thats Labour for you

I was writing these down in real time but there were too many so i missed some.

Some guy in my office:

"We don't have much choice: we've either got to go the whole hog or... just some of the hog"