Hipster #1: Did you ever see The Brown Bunny?
Hipster #2: No, what’s it about?
Hipster #1: This guy, he’s a motorcycle racist…
Hipster #2: A motorcycle racist?
Hipster #1: Yeah, he races motorcycles.
–Atlantic Terminal Target
Archive for July, 2008
Is Our Tourists Learning?
Blonde tourist (after swiping futilely a few times): How do I swipe this?
New Yorker (looks at card in tourist’s hand): That’s not a Metrocard, that’s your room key.
–E Train
Overheard by: Laura
‘Cause I’m Gangstrous!
White college dude with glasses: Guys, you absolutely must check out this new reality television show. It is off the hiz-ook. Literally, off the hiz-ook.
College chick: Why do we hang out with you?
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Vicksburg
We’ve Spent Weeks Working on That Grotto Effect
Suit: We have water leaking from the 24th floor down to the phone boxes.
Friend: That’s good. That’s what we want.
–47th & 3rd
Overheard by: EthanK
And on the Third Day, George Carlin Rose
Crazy guy in camouflage: And I was like: “Fucking…what the fuck, man! Fuck it!“
Teen passerby (very seriously): I love that man.
Preppy friend: Oh my god, me too! (gives thumbs up)
–48th & 6th
Headline by: Golf Widow
Runners-Up:
· “Everyone Loves a Good Fuck” — melly
· “How Billy and Tommy Knew What Love Really Means” — Stellina
· “I Hear He’s Speaking at Graduation!” — fucking fan
· “Schizophrenia Is the New Black.” — Josh
· “Tourette’s Groupies” — TheSchilsk
Didn’t Turn Out Too Poorly for Marco Polo
Three-year-old: But mom…
Sunburnt mom: We’ll put you in the toilet bowl and flush ya! We’ll send you to china! Where all those people need a family now!
Three-year-old: Nooooo!
–Greenpoint
Oh Wait–Pikachu, Right?
Boy on class trip #1: Look! The hall of Asian mammals!
Boy on class trip #2: Since when are there mammals in Asia?
–Museum of Natural History
Overheard by: Amanda
Chicks with Wednesday One-Liners!
Chick on cell: In the past three weeks, I’ve been to more tranny-hosted parties than non-tranny hosted parties.
–Columbia University
Overheard by: Ladle
Mini-Asian teen: Well he’s not a real man in the sense that he has a penis, or like, male reproductive organs.
–6 Train
Loud woman: I can’t tell whether he’s a lesbian or just gay.
–Bamboo 52
Overheard by: Aidan
Angry man: Suck my pussy dick!
–Canal St
Overheard by: Kaitlen
Black woman to group of friends, after watching an attractive black man walk by: Mmmmm, he so fine! I wanna stick my dick up that ass!
–Duane Reade
Bum on subway: (singing) when I go into space, I’ma take a stripper wit’ me!
(woman puts a dollar bill in his cup)
Bum: I’ma take a trannie too, but the trannie cost extra!
(man puts a dollar in his cup)
Bum: La dee da!
–L Train from Williamsburg
Wednesday One-Liners Don’t Fall Far from the Tree
Girl on cell passing by: That sounds great, honey, but there is no possible reason you’d need to shove an entire lime in the garbage disposal.
–Lafayette & Houston
(tourist lady eats banana)
Ferry bag lady: Why are you eating that banana? You know it’s not healthy for you. They say you need potassium but you don’t need no potassium. You don’t want no banana, it’s nasty and mushy. Throw it out. Throw out that banana. You don’t want no nasty mushy banana.
(bug-eyed tourist lady continues to eat banana)
–Staten Island Ferry Terminal
Five-year-old girl, sitting in the grocery cart next to her twin sister, as their mother pushes them around the store: You’re squishing me like a pineapple! You’re squishing me like a pineapple, I said!
–9th St Market
Overheard by: Elle Woods (Chelsea Huckabay)
Old man with Boston accent to prepubescent boy: Squirt that in your nose and it’s like you have a blueberry bush.
–42nd & 5th
Overheard by: Anniemal
20-year-old bakery chick: I was in Brooklyn yesterday on 18th Ave. There were three Mexicans on bikes. One was dressed like a banana. So then I walked up to him and I was like: “Dude, you’re dressed like a banana and you’re on a bike, that’s awesome. Can I take a picture of you?”
–Bakery, Staten Island
Overheard by: Traci Cuccurullo
Loud girl: I never wash my fruit! I eat things that have fallen on the floor! And that’s why I don’t have allergies!
–375 Hudson St.
Overheard by: Harriet Vane
Not Harriet Tubman’s Kind of Wednesday One-Liners
Conductor: Put your purse inside the train. I said: “purse inside the train.” Inside the train, that’s no real Chanel!
–E Train
Overheard by: cran
Conductor: Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to be delayed for a couple of minutes, the wheels keep slipping. We aren’t working with the best equipment here.
–LIRR
Conductor: Ladies and gentlemen, we are sorry for the inconvenience and the delays. While expressing your dislike for the inconvenience, please do not curse, spit, or throw things at the conductor and train crew.
–V‑train
Conductor: Keep on moving, don’t block the aisles… Keep on moving, don’t block the aisles… There’s plenty of empty seats in the back cars. Don’t just stare at the people next to you.
–Metro North Train
Conductor: Uptown! Uptown! Uptown express! You know where I’m going! Don’t pretend like you don’t know where I’m going!
–4 Train
Overheard by: Jamie
Conductor: Please walk forward for more seats. The front of the train is empty. It’s like the freaking promised land up here!
–NJ Transit
Conductor, over loudspeaker: This is the A train making local stops on the F line. Next stop, who knows!?
–A Train
Overheard by: Schechter
