Dude looking at sign for Godiva store: If you look at that sign, you could read it as ‘Go diva.’
Chick: Yeah, if you look at it through gay goggles.
–The Village
Archive for 2007
Yeah, It’s All Just TV
Nerd #1: Didn’t Ford’s body get shipped to Washington?
Nerd #2: No.
Nerd #1: Oh. Then I must have seen that on 24 or something.
–Union Square
Didn’t Have the Heart to Tell Her It Was a Gold Jerry Garcia
Trendy female customer: I like your Jesus necklace. Do you believe in Jesus the Almighty?
Sales dude: I do.
Trendy female customer: As you should.
–Marc Jacobs, Bleecker
Overheard by: Andrea Quijano
And Mimimal Deadbabyage
Passenger #1: Boy, this elevator is slow! It’s worse than in the projects!
Passenger #2: Yeah, but there’s less urine here.
Passenger #3: Less throw up, too.
–Elevator, office building, Midtown
As a Random Act of Free Will
Judge: Wow, this girl sounds like the future generation’s Tori Amos.
Philistine in audience: I don’t know who that is, but I disagree.
–NYU talent show, Skirball Center, Washington Square South
But If You’d Like to Purge, I’ve Got a Clip for Your Hair
Jessie: Tammy, do you think I’m fat? [Silence.] Tammy!
Tammy: What?
Jessie: Do you think I got fat?
Tammy: … Honestly, Jessie, every guy I have hooked up with says he doesn’t like skinny girls.
–Bathroom, Town Tavern, W 3rd & 6th
Overheard by: Flanked In Stalls, St Patty’s genius
But That’s a Cocktail Stirrer
Girl #1: Here, take it.
Girl #2: I really don’t think this is necessary…
Girl #1: But you missed your period. And you’re all pukey. Don’t you want to know?
Girl #2: But I don’t think I am.
Girl #1: Well, I can’t date him until we know he’s not your baby daddy!
Girl #2: Start dating him! It’s fine. I don’t think I am!
Girl #1: Will you just pee on the fucking stick?!
–Bathroom, bar, Williamsburg
A Hundred Dollars a Minute? That Better Be Freud Himself
Crazy guy to wife at front of bus: Fucking therapist fucking charges me three hundred dollars for three fucking minutes. Fuckers are trying to take my money!
Drunk guy at back of bus: Shut up! Stop cursing! There are kids on the bus.
Crazy guy to wife: I take you out to dinner, and you don’t even want to fucking go anywhere?! Why the fuck do I put up with you?!
Drunk guy: Shut up! There are womenfolk on the bus.
Crazy guy: You shut the fuck up. You think I’m not fucking dumb but I’m not. [His wife starts hitting him.]Drunk guy: Shut up! That’s what my two-year-old boy says — ‘Shut up’! Hahahaha.
Lady laughing on cell: Are you guys gonna still be at the bar? … Excellent!
–Bx10 bus
Overheard by: LSB
Reparations Are a Lot Cheaper Than They Used to Be
Old black man #1: I’m gonna go get a Post.
Old black man #2: A brotha reading the Post? Oh, man…
Old black man #1: Man, it’s only 25 cents. And it’s got page six!
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: Jill
Headline by: Dave
Runners-Up:
· “Hahaha…wait…black people? READING?” — pants
· “I always sleep under that one” — Mike B
· “Judge me not by the color of my skin but by the content of my paper” — nyinsf
· “That’s the quilted page” — N. A. Cargo
Depends — Are You Closed on Columbus Day?
Student #1: Today is our first day of classes.
Student #2: Yeah, and it’s Martin Luther King’s birthday today.
Student #1: Most other schools are closed on Martin Luther King Day, but we’re open.
Student #2: Does that make our school racist?
–185th & Amsterdam
Overheard by: Anthony Ross
