Teacher: There is a kind of poison acid found in apple seeds.
Blonde: Is that how Johnny Appleseed died?
–NYU
Teacher: There is a kind of poison acid found in apple seeds.
Blonde: Is that how Johnny Appleseed died?
–NYU
Teenage boy in suit to others: Apparently I look a lot like Lady Gaga.
–42nd St
Overheard by: model UN delegate
Elderly man to elderly woman: Gaga… What's a gaga? He went to see Lady Gaga! Gaga… Gaga? Gaga? (goes on for some minutes)
–Downtown A Train
Overheard by: Jill
Girl to friends, all singing Lady Gaga: I just want to take her face and put it in my vagina. That's how obsessed I am with Lady Gaga.
–7th St & 1st Ave
Overheard by: Stephanie
Girl: Lady Gaga is not going to sit on your face.
–12th St & 3rd Ave
Overheard by: Cass
Music nerd: I am soulmates with Bonnie Raitt and John Lennon.
Girl: Sure.
Music nerd: No, seriously. (pause) What's her birthday? I should send her a card or something.
–106th St & Broadway
Overheard by: Mady P for publicity
Cosmetology teacher: We do not do sterilization in this class. That is what they do in a medical lavatory.
–Cosmetology Class, Astoria
Overheard by: Kelsey
Fat black teen shoving past white couple: I like how they ain't know how a say "excuse me."
–Wilson ave, Bushwick
Xerox repairman on cell: Yo, you sound like John Lecoozigamo! He's a comedian. Le-cooz-I-ga-mo.
–132nd St & Cypress
Overheard by: office drone
Middle-aged mother with thick Staten Island accent on cell: Ronny, where are you?! We are standing outside and we are freezing the children!
–New York City Transit Museum, Brooklyn
Indignant thug to thugette: I told her we wasn't together. How did she know I'm with you? Did you tell her differentwise?
–Q20 Bus
Overheard by: Liza
Yuppie girl #1: This thing with Robert is just killing me…
Yuppie girl #2: How bad could it possibly be?
Yuppie girl #3: Ugh… It's like when-Heidi-Klum-married-Seal bad!
–Union Square
Two-year-old boy to mom: And after dinner, it's butt-shaking time!
–Brooklyn Heights
Tot in stroller: Mommy, I want the tabouleh… Mommy! My tabouleh!
–Food Emporium
Little brother pestering older brother playing PSP: What do you like better, Nutella or A-Rod?
–Stanton Tailor Shop
Two-year-old, after falling to floor when train swerved: Mother, I resent that.
–G Train
Overheard by: Sunny
Teenage girl leaving pizzeria, gasping: Ronald Reagan!
–Pete's Pizzeria, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Ken
Stylish ladies: Oooh, police! Is there a celebrity here?
Cop: No, there's a bomb threat.
Stylish ladies: Oh, great!
–77th St & Amsterdam
Overheard by: amalthya
Doo-wop busker: Hey man, anyone ever tell you that you look just like Wynton Marsalis?
Black guy who does actually look like Wynton Marsalis: Who?
White woman: Oh! Yeah, he does!
Doo-wop busker: Yeah, am I right? Wynton Marsalis, in the flesh.
Black guy: I don't even know who that is.
Doo-wop busker: Jazz trumpet, man. Genius.
White woman: He's a wonderful musician. You should look him up!
Black guy: Uh, sure. What was the name again?
Doo-wop busker: Wyn-ton. Mar-sa-lis. They ever make a movie of his life, you got it made.
–R Train
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Bar patron, listening to Sweet Caroline: Wow. I've never heard this version before. It's cool! Who's singing?
Twinkie bartender: It's from that show Glee. I've never heard the original, though. Whose song is it?
Bar patron: Oh, man, that takes me back. Englebert Humperdinck. A guy named Englebert Humperdinck–he wrote it for Caroline Kennedy.
–Gay Bar, West Village
Overheard by: Bob
