Blonde: Yeah… I still have no idea how he found out where I lived.
Uninterested brunette, filing her nails: Ummm, ever been to the yellow pages?
Blonde: No, I don’t think so… Is that a new club?
–F Train
Overheard by: don’t feed the model
Archive for 2010
Apparently Two Gays Don’t Make a Straight
Drunk man #1: Oh my god, Lily Tomlin, man?
Drunk man #2: Yeah?
Drunk man #1: Yeah, really! Nine to Five? Awesome.
Drunk man #2: I didn’t know.
Drunk man #1: Yeah, dude! She was in Blue Hawaii with Elvis.
Drunk man #2: I had no idea.
Drunk man #1: I wish I met her, man. She died right after she married Lou Reed.
–Grand Central Station
In Time, My Bruises Will Heal
20-something dude to friend: I didn’t mean to hit you with my Johnson.
Friend: Of course not.
–Brooklyn
Overheard by: pumpkin
Wednesday One-Liners’ Cocktail Hour Started Back in the Eighties
Cop to another: Are you drunk yet?
–Corner of 145th St
Frustrated-sounding NYU student to friend: Well, why don’t you get a girl and you can just pretend she’s drunk?
–Washington Square
Future rabbi: So my philosophy professor, Lenny Kravitz, told us we’ll be drinking scotch in class tomorrow…
–4th & Broadway
Drunk black guy arguing on phone: Man, you need to stop drinkin’. Not only is yo speech gettin’ slurred, but yo brains is gettin’ slurred too!
–NJ Transit
Overheard by: Ashley
Dude to friend: I swear to god, every time he gets a little buzzed he thinks he’s Austin Powers.
–40th & 7th
Overheard by: thivnav
Mommy, Where Do Wednesday One-Liners Come From?
Woman on cell, sitting at counter: The baby’s not out yet…as in “it’s still inside her.”
–McDonald’s, Varick Street
Overheard by: Jordan
College student: It’s like taking candy from a baby…only, ya know, I’d ask the mother first.
–LIRR
Overheard by: Dara
Dork walking by Babies “R” Us with friends: Dude, look! I totally wanna buy a baby!
–Union Square South
Guy on cell: That shop smells like babies!
–Union Square
Drunk man in Santa hat to all train passengers: I know all you ladies want to have babies for Christmas, but there’s no time for it! Close your legs, there’ll be less heads.
–L Train
Overheard by: Handley Elizabeth
Wednesday One-Liners for Change
Black lady to family in obama t‑shirts: You know how all those irish people have pictures of kennedy hanging up in their living rooms? Now we can do that too!
–Whole Foods, Columbus Circle
Overheard by: Definitely has a JFK picture in her apartment
Guy selling obama-themed condoms: Remember the election with every erection!
–Times Square
Overheard by: Mary Button
Black woman with a child in her stroller braiding her hair: There’s gona be a lot of braidin in the white house.
–1 Train
Overheard by: Subway surfer
Woman on cell phone: Girl, if I can get to the front of the line at the vma’s I can get to the front of the line at the damn inauguration. Shiiiit it’s barack obama, girl!
–manhattan dental waiting room
Overheard by: Catherine
Stoned kid to a group of his friends discussing politics: You know what’s scary bro? If obama gets assassinated, george bush is gonna be president again.
–1 Train @ 2AM going Downtown
Black man handing out metro: “get your obama metro! Get your obama metro! See, anyone can be president… I’m next!”
–59th Street, Lexington Ave
Overheard by: Yes we can!
Presenting the Fall Wednesday One-Liner Collection
Fashion photographer: That’s a skirt? I thought it was a hat.
–Fashion Closet, Conde Nast Building
Indecisive woman to friend: I like this sweater in principle.
–Banana Republic, 86th & Broadway
Tween girl to mom: I’m not going to put my precious glove in the frickin’ oven!
–Queens
Guy: I’m just saying, he doesn’t dress like a bro.
–Astor Place
Irate girl wearing too much lipstick: That band really doesn’t do him justice… I mean, I don’t think he should have to wear a unitard. And she really shouldn’t wear one, you know?
–6 Train
Overheard by: Wants to see him in unitard
A Little Wednesday One-Liner in a Big Pond
Drunk girl: I just love a cock in my mouth! It is a fact of my life, like Blair and Tootie. I want to be carnivorous. I will eat fish if it’s the only thing on the menu, but I really just want some meat! I’m not fishiverous!
–Party, Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria
Overheard by: likes steak AND seafood
Girl to friend: Surely if she was ever in possession of a penis, then on merit she would inherit the family lobster farm?
–28th & 7th
Ginger: Garibaldi… That is so weird. That is the name of the California state fish. I wonder if the statue is named after the fish.
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: camillo cavour
Man to wife: That’s too much calamari, even for a homeless guy.
–East Village
I Only Wait on Lines This Long for Cupcakes
Drunk guy on St. Patrick’s Day to group of students by McDonald’s: You guys want a fucking cheeseburger that fucking bad, huh?
Young teenager, sarcastically: Actually, I’m a vegetarian.
Drunk guy: Then what the fuck is this for?
Young teenager: Tofu and salad.
Drunk guy: Fuck this!
–Times Square
…With No Cup Holders
Flamboyant teenage boy: Did you see Keisha roll up to school today with that raggedy-ass stroller showing off her baby?
Teenage girl: Yeah, who she think she is? Them other girls had them babies in some decent rides.
Teenage boy: You never see the baby daddies rolling in, showing off their babies.
Teenage girl: Hahaha… Yeah, but next year, when I bring my baby, I ain’t gonna have no ghetto stroller.
–D Train
