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Leaving a local club where a Reggae band has just played. The crowd is pretty fresh faced apart from a well-spoken middle-aged couple who reminded me very much of some teachers I used to have.

Woman: (smiling) It was good. Very good.
Man: (looking pensive for a split second and then correcting his wife's ungroovy lingo) - It was COOL. Very COOL.

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

(all involved here are females ages 35-50)

Coworker1: Do you think Angelina Jolie would do a sex scene?
Coworker2: I'm pretty sure she already has...um...
Coworker1: I bet she would.
Coworker2: That's what I'm saying, I think she has, I've SEEN it.
Coworker1: I bet she'd do a three-way.
Coworker2: ORIGINAL SIN! That's what it was called.
Coworker1: I bet she'd do a sex-scene with her brother.
Coworker2: You need to stop thinking about this for a second.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Wellington Airport

mother: Yes, all good reporters use pencils.
daughter: what do bad reporters use then?
mother: ...biros

rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...
Let's revive this one, too.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Best snippet of overheard convo was probably heard by other people.

My mum and I were walking the dog and talking about how we'd off my father (semi-jokingly)...walked around a hill and there were a bunch of people sitting there looking a bit stunned.

Ah well.

papa november (papa november), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

You should have jokingly killed them.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I could've been the hilltop strangler

papa november (papa november), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Screamed at top of voice in swank restaurant by old woman:

YOU CUNT!!!!

Two uncomfortable seconds later:

...do that! You cunt. You simply cunt. I don't beleef you.

Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The Archel one above is insane and hilarious. Also "maybe the coffee is a metaphor" is my new catchphrase.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

seriously, these are ALL insane and hilarious, they are saving me from dying from boredom too. why do i never overhear stuff like this? more please!

gem (trisk), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link

six yr old scouser boy overheard on train (I've mentioned this before but it cracks me up):
"Family Values means we're all going to die"

-- mark s (mar...), September 5th, 2001

Upon reflection, an accurate assessment.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Man: "god, I havent been here since the last time we were here!"

I say this all the time. I think it started as a joke, but today I said "I haven't talked to you since last time!" without thinking anything of it until afterwards.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link

HAHAHAHAHA "If you knew anything about space or love, you would never ever fuck with Björk."

Best thread ever.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...
Two guys sitting at the booth behind me at KFC buffet, in Midland, Texas:

Guy1: Guess who I saw at the mall the other day.
Guy2: Um...who?
Guy1: Richie Sambora!
Guy2: Didya now?

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 March 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

There are some posted on this thread

Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Two women behind me on the Brighton-Eastbourne bus:

Woman 1: So... how do you know when to turn the CD over?
Woman 2: You don't, it's just one side.
W1: So... what's the other side for?
W2: ...
W1: And how do you know which side is which?
W2: Well, sometimes the blank side has, I don't know, manufacturer's information on it or something.

WTF? I mean Woman 1 was fairly elderly but even so...

Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Camp guy on phone in Central Station:

"I'm outside the toilet just now...........yeah, I'm absolutely bursting.............do you dare me?"

Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

That was Hari wasn't it. Come on own up.

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Couple guys on 110th St., while the Gates were being dismantled:

Guy: "..;but it transformed the neighborhood!"
Other guy: "Yeah, it filled it with annoying white girls."

Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

At Walgreen's pharmacy last night, the couple ahead of me:
Girl: Does this have instructions? I'm not sure how to use it. I'm really confused.
Pharmacist: Well, there are complete instructions on the insert, you are supposed to use a small amount until it foams into a lather, and let it sit for a few seconds and then rinse.
Her: Wait, I'm supposed to use this on my hair? My head hair?
P: Well yes, isn't that what you need it for?
Her: But I don't have any on my hair, just on other...places.

What the hell was she talking about if not head lice? Crabs?

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
On the corner of Madison and 54th. Two businessmen:

Businessman One: "I mean you're literally a billionaire, right?"
Businessman Two: "Yep."

jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

As as I was sitting in my parked car at the curb waiting for my friend to come down from his apartment, two girls, about 12 or 13 years old, rollerskated by on the sidewalk. One of the girls was saying to the other "ALL MEN ARE PIGS!"

n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

walking around the lower east side in new york, passed this girl on her cell phone - she was wearing like chanel and had a louis vuitton bag and heels and she was talking on her cell phone "yeah, i bet i could get my nails done so CHEAPLY down here!!!"

phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 8 April 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

the one that makes me laugh the most is still anna's dried pasta diss.

jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 8 April 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

overheard while waiting in line to see a noir film at the Castro:

"I love Tori Amos because I love it when the mythical slides into delerium"

Ouch! It still hurts to think about it.

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it the film I'm thinking of?

Jeromathan Millions (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Jody's is great.

Jeromathan Millions (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I love it when the mythical slides into delerium

http://www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk/sandman/delirium.jpg

jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure I've quoted it somewhere else, but: I work for one of the top universities in the UK. I was walking towards the stairs leading up to my office one day, behind three young women, obviously students. They got a couple of paces up the stairs, then the one in front stopped and turned around and said "Hang on - I'm not sure this is the right way to the basement..."

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

At a picnic table in the courtyard of a drug rehab -- a guy (the junkie seeking help) and his girlfriend (very cute and nice girl who kicked her habit a couple of years ago) are dryly going over technicalities like does he have all the toiletries he needs, it sucks they won't let you have sugar for your coffee, what sorta job will he get when he gets out... then a few moments of silence and he breaks down crying. She holds him for a few mintues, rocking left and right and whispers through her tears "God is gonna get you through this" and "it's gonna be okay" and "i love you".

Aaron A., Friday, 8 April 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

The long term in joke with me and the gal was when, on an early date, we passed a couple doing the angry breakup in motion as they fled down the street and the only part we caught was the guy yelling "Nobody made you sit in that chair!"

As such, we use that to break off pointless arguments.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Two women [very loud, perhaps slightly drunk] in the chip shop last night, one had her son with her. They started talking about vaseline but the conversation somehow went onto eyebrows.

blonde girl - "LOL, Look at my sons eyebrows"
brunette girl - "OMG LOL, what have you done to your sons eyebrows?"
[to son] "LOL, what has she done to your eyebrows? OMG LOL"
blonde - "LOL, He wasn't born with any, LOL "
brunette - "Oh you poor thing, LOL"
Both Girls - "LOL, OMG, LOL, OMG, etc etc"

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"We would never have... it's a different world. These kids today with all the reality shows and the sex on TV. Lucy Ricardo, Lucy and Ricky, there were two separate beds. Mary Tyler Moore, there were two separate beds." (holds up two fingers when saying the word "two")

Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

they were really going "LOL OMG"?

g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

It would have been even more bizarre if the had gone "ROFFLE."

Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

ROFFLEMAYO

g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, the poor kid just sat there while they were pointing and prodding at his head and laughing hysterically at his 'non-existent' eyebrows.

Then they went on to ask me "ey luv! who do y'think looks oldest out o' me and 'er?"
I refused to answer.

Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

teenage girl to her friend on the bus:

"people are so much more good-looking now than ever before. when you see people from TV in the 70s they are all butters"

David_X (David_X), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I was behind a middle aged woman in Asda, among her purchases was Scented Toilet Roll (magnolia, I think). The little old woman serving her made a great show of reading the packaging.

"Ooh, I've never seen that before," she said in a brash Ayrshire accent, "does it no irritate yer fanny?"

Rumpy Pumpkin, Friday, 6 May 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

A 6 year old girl, right after her older sister told her something about being careful while crossing the street or you could get hit by a car and die : "I wouldn't mind dying only a little bit"

peter in mtl (spaces are allowed), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Crossing the street in midtown, a mom and her 5-year-old daughter passed a scruffy guy handing out flyers.
Mom: ....and that's what happens if you don't study hard and get into a good college.

Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

The daughter looked like she thought that wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

An elderly woman sitting beside me on the bus, talking on her phone:
"Carol is just like her father....a BASTARD."

kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 6 May 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Four teenage skater boys on the train:

A: How would you assist someone who needed to vomit?

B: Pull their hair back.

C: Massage their belly.

D: Maybe you could paddle their arse?

moley, Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"people are so much more good-looking now than ever before. when you see people from TV in the 70s they are all butters"

I know what she means.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Middle-aged man standing alone in London Victoria on the phone:

"When I get home, you'd BEST be naked. NAKED WITH A CUP OF TEA AND A BOWL OF BAKED BEANS."

astropatty (adr), Sunday, 8 May 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Standing in line at the DMV:

Thugged out guy in late 20's or early 30 A: So, is yo girl trying to make you get a job and shit?

Thugged out guy in late 20's or early 30's B: No.

Thugged out guy in late 20's or early 30 A: That's how you know when she really loves you.

Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 8 May 2005 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Here's a long one I wrote about in my LJ last weekend.

I was walking back from the shops, having bought pastries and things for Sunday brunch, and as I walked up my street I noticed a young Jewish guy in skullcap and white sunday suit standing on the side of the road, opposite me. Thought nothing at all of it - it looked like he was waiting for a car, maybe. He then calls out "hey, who are you waiting for?" across the road and I look ahead of me and see he's talking to a tall thin man who is in full top hat and tails regalia - white gloves, patent leather pointed shoes, cravat, the works. He almost looks like he might be dressed to be a butler or town car driver, or is going to some very fancy event. He stares calmly at the young man but does not answer. Young man again shouts "who are you waiting for?". At this point I just thought it was because he also was waiting for someone, and thought this older guy might be it?

But the tall top hat man said, slowly "who are you?". Young man gets slightly cross and again repeats "no, who are you waiting for?"
"Who are you?"

This went on in true Vorlon style for a minute or so, eventually young guy says "I'm Rosco, WHO ARE YOU WAITING FOR??"

The older man says, in a very slow and very strangely pronounced, RP english stagey voice, "I am Ronald, please state your business?". OK this is getting weird. I've passed top hat man by this point and have to keep glancing back, only to see top hat man crossing the street to approach young jewish guy, who is holding his hand out, palm forward, like some kind of policeman! He says "Community watch! WHO ARE YOU WAITING FOR", with his hand held up and backing away slightly.

Top hat man pauses, then walks back across the road to his spot. He didnt seem at all ruffled by this young guy's rather bizarre paranoid gated community shtick, but then again his own stagey pose was equally surreal.

And then I went home, the end.

Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 8 May 2005 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Two well dressed boys aged about 17, on the bus. One is talking loudly in a posh voice, so the whole bus can hear his incisive remarks:
"Everything is owned by three conglomerates. GlaxoSmithKline, Coca Cola, and... um, Yamaha."

beanz (beanz), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link


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