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"..these crab legs smell like someones beehind." from the booth behind me at la red lobster.

thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

BARRUS TO THREAD!!!

Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 16 June 2003 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

two antos (dublin equiv of geezers, maybe) on a bus, some years ago.

ANTO 1: what are you up to this weekend?
ANTO 2: ah, i thought i'd go down to later.
ANTO 1: whaaa? you don't like dance music. why would you go there?
ANTO 2: sure it'll be full of gee!

("gee" = irish slang term for, er, female bits)

rener (rener), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

gah, cursed angle brackets.

two antos (dublin equiv of geezers, maybe) on a bus, some years ago.

ANTO 1: what are you up to this weekend?
ANTO 2: ah, i thought i'd go down to (popular rave club) later.
ANTO 1: whaaa? you don't like dance music. why would you go there?
ANTO 2: sure it'll be full of gee!

("gee" = irish slang term for, er, female bits)

rener (rener), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

BARRUS TO THREAD!!!

Dependent entirely when the campus pub is open. And we're on summer hours now unfortunately.

Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...
three women on the bus:

1: my dad wanted me to sign his living will, but no way.
2: but?
1: no way, i'm not signing it. i figure it's god's choice. when it's his time to go that's up to god.
2: but the medical bills. he could be like a vegetable like for years.
1: he's got money. i just won't do that.
2: it can be really expensive. it's do not resuscitate.
1: it's outta my hands.
2: ...
1: he's been real into this kinda stuff since he shot himself.
2: ?
1: didn't i tell you that? he put a gun to his head three years ago. blew out his eye, didn't kill him. he's got one eye now, he's still up and around.
3: oh my friend's dad did that. put a shotgun up under his chin, bssshh blew off the whole side of his face, but he lived.

typo acapulco (gcannon), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:57 (twenty years ago) link

(i'm pretty sure woman 1 is the 'tittie titties titties' woman from upthread)

typo acapulco (gcannon), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:58 (twenty years ago) link

i overheard someone on her cell phone ask, "can you get, i dunno, a cream for that?"

phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 14 November 2003 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

Overheard in Lynaghs pub here in Lexington:

"I'm a bad man, and sometimes a bad man's just got to be bad."
"And sometimes you're just DUMB."

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

Two typical north London rude boys on the bus last year. Their conversation had been full of blood and brov and bwoy and then:

Rude Boy 1: D'you get me. It was fucking out of order!
Rude Boy 2: Totally blood, disrespectful.
RB1: Yeah, he's got no 'spect. I sent him out for fresh pasta and he comes back with dried!
RB2: [shakes head sadly] Dried pasta's such a diss, man.

Anna (Anna), Friday, 14 November 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...
One of my bosses on the phone just now: "I'll take the hummer for sixty bucks. HAHAHAHA!!!" (he was arranging to rent a Hummer H2)
< /12 year old boy>

Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

About six years ago I swear I heard a guy say "double penetration hangman". It haunts me to this very day what on earth he could have been talking about.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

Was walking past a group of people in conversation and as I got in earshot, one of the women says "... and so he had to go into nightclubs to sell POTATOES." The emphasis on "potatoes", as if that were very important.

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

"Yuri, get the fuck in here! Paul is puking everywhere!"

"Is he going into convulsions?"

"Not yet!"

I live next to the West Hollywood Russian mafia.

Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

Past weekend at the Rasputin in Berkeley, two women with hair dyed in colors that don't work so well on someone in their late 30s ...

A: They don't have any [insert female recording artist name here] CDs!!!!

B: Maybe they're sold-out.

A: Maybe they're just SEXIST!

I also heard them complaining that the store didn't have "enough" Sex Pistols records, whatever that means. Oh, Berkeley..

Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

Trayce what is not important about the word "potatoes" in that sentence?? (Unless you were in Idaho.)

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

Question I did not expect to overhear when I came into work this morning:

"What's a glory hole?"

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

Context, please. Who was asking who?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

My boss, and thankfully not me.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

"It has to do with God... yeah, and you can only find him in the bathroom... Really, go check it out."

luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

"You fat cheeseburger!"

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my God Tom! Just about ten minutes ago I overheard two execs discussing a new account...

Exec1: They've got 35 buildings on 29 locations, 900 employees...looks like we've hit the glory hole with this one.
Exec2: "glory hole"? What kind of expression is that?

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

"there wasn't hella them, but there was a fair number of hoes"

anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

My boss, and thankfully not me.

So, there wasn't a demo either? Sad.

While waiting in front of a girl said to her friend at the Post Office, this morn:

"He's such an ass! Had the nerve to hold up the dildo like a sword."

Was dying to ask her whether he was willing to bend over, natch.

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

2 grad student-ish women in Ann Arbor outside of a coffee shop

First: "She's always locking everything up, she.."

Second: "Yeah, she's always putting everything in boxes.."

First: "...that lock."

webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...
Blonde sorority girl walking with cellphone: oh, my god...... thank god for cellphones!!!!!

Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 16 January 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Co-worker on mobile phone:

"So you were less surprised at getting hit by a bus than at me getting engaged?!"

Anna (Anna), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

Today in art history class:

Prof.:...and that's when man found out he had idle time to do whatever he pleased.
Student: Oh, yeah! That's where they fry the codfish!

WTF?! Mind you, this little exchange was all in Spanish.

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

Is that a euphemism like "sand down the ol' love log" or maybe "ride the skinbus into Tunatown"?

Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

Probably my favorite overheard quote ever:

(whilst walking down polk st. in san francisco)
"I dont give a fuck, I'm just tryin' to eat the pussy"

bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

Is that a euphemism like "sand down the ol' love log" or maybe "ride the skinbus into Tunatown"?
-- Bryan (twp62y...), February 3rd, 2004.

Not really. It was just complete nonsense as far as I'm concerned. Maybe she was into Dada.

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

I think I've posted this elsewhere but still. David Brent - type franchising high-up guy interviewing young applicant for a job.

"So welcome to the team. We'll have some laughs! But it'll be hard work, too."

Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago) link

"...it doesn't scream..."

later, to be completed by my friend--

"when you stab a starving baby, it doesn't scream, it just dies! Huh? huh?"

chris dewolf (Chris DeWolf), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago) link

(I realize I posted this in the wrong place).

As most of you know, I am proud mother to a rather precociouus 6 year old boy. I have never been more proud than when I overheard this just now:

Zoe (the dog): barks, jumps on bed, walks around
S: "Zoe, get off me, you're stepping on my balls!"

Fin.

luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago) link

Fade from black. Manchester airport August 2000. Just travelled for nearly two days without sleep, from some tiny backwater in South Australia back to real life. Due to pick up life-changing A-level results in an hour. On bus from plane to terminal:

Middle aged, average looking woman to middle aged husband(Shouting. Loud. From back of bus to front, holding up mobile phone as if by way of explantion and utter deadpan, with no hint of irony at all...)

IAN, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF I ASKED YOU WHO'S THE DADDY NOW?

Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

One of my colleagues, a couple of days ago, said "Some of our students literally vanish into thin air."

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

Some kids were trying to stick an X-mas tree in a post box, they were all running away saying to each other "don't run, we haven't done anything wrong".

jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

"You want nipples? I can send you nipples all day long."

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

A couple arguing in the pub on Sunday, 'she' had followed 'him' into the mens toilets to continue the rant:

"..you're a bastard, and now you're even making me smell men's piss!"

Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

a girl in our kitchen was describing the operations she'd had: "Actually I quite like keyhole surgery. Some of my keyhole surgery looks rather cute, especially when compared with some of the big horrible scars that I've got".

MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

oh oh oh, and

12 year old Kid on Bus #1: you shit!

12 year old Kid on Bus #2: you wanker!

12 year old Kid on Bus #1: you bastard!

12 year old Kid on Bus #2: you asshole!

12 year old Kid on Bus #1: you paedophile!

MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago) link

Aww bless them!

Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

My unkle to my aunt: "why don't you take your crack-head boyfriend and shove him up your infected ass!"

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

Coworker 1: Marky Mark? What are you talking about?
Coworker 2: What are you talking about? I said Flintstones.
Coworker 1: That has nothing to do with Markey Mark!
Coworker 2: I know! It's yabba dabba doo time!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

Both in the past five minutes.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

Fantastic.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

Two little kids walking past a restaurant window in Chinatown. Chubby kid looks up at hanging smoked ducks.

Chubby Kid (to friend): Yo...DUCK, son!

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

Man in restaurant, in tone of admonishment, rather than shock: "You're 45 and you've never ... !"

The restaurant lull didn't last long enough for me to hear what came next, and I almost made a thread asking ILE to guess, cause I keep making guesses myself.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 27 February 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

....been in a restaurant??!"

Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

....listened to Jay Farrar??!"

Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago) link


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