Birds

Ranting teenager: Pregnancy hurts! I just don't understand why we can't just lay eggs like chickens.
Random hobo: No one likes their babies sunny side up!

–2nd Ave & 10th St

Rangers fan, about two players who are brothers: No, they're like the same age. They've gotta be like four or five months apart.

–Madison Square Garden

Overheard by: helenathegreat

Blonde to blonde friend, looking outside from Legally Blonde theater: Oh, wow, it's still light out.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Jaime and Bridget

Girl to friend: I don't even know how long ago one minute ago was.

–New Year's Eve, Times Square

Overheard by: Kristina

Girl, pointing to turkey walking around: Look at the peacock, it's so pretty!

–Central Park

Lady on cell: I told her she was an ungrateful b-i-c-t-h!

–14D Bus

Overheard by: Evan Wilson

Pizza guy #1, after reading Snapple cap: Okay: what's a bird that can swim but can't fly? Seven letters.
Pizza guy #2: Hmmm…a duck?
Pizza guy #1: What? No, seven letters. And a duck isn't even a bird, a duck is a duck!

–Pizza Parlor, Upper West Side

Overheard by: EthanK

Girl #1: And there was a live poultry-slaughtering place across the street.
Girl #2: No way!

–Park Slope, Brooklyn

Headline by: Matthew

Runners-Up:
· “Boneless-Skinless Breasts Don’t Just Grow That Way?” – EddieA
· “Coin Operated, Which Made It Kind Of Cruel” – Nick Pollotta
· “I Think It’s Called a Strip Bar” – Sandy Paws
· “I’m Telling You, It Was the Best Club I’ve Ever Been to” – PeterG
· “It Was Called Panda Express” – Chuck G
· “It’s the New Starbucks – Soon There’ll Be One on Every Corner” – Brent
· “Rachel’s Stories About the World Outside NYC Always Gave Becky Nightmares” – Siobhan
· “That’s Why the Wedding Was So Cheap” – treibs
· “They Also Perform Circumcisions” – mark

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6'6" construction worker with another, to Applebee's host: For two, somewhere really romantic.

–Applebee's, 50th St

Construction worker with Staten Island accent: Chick's like a fuckin' black widow, like, she gets you all swollen up and then just leaves you to fuckin' die.

–47th & 6th

Overheard by: need a tissue?

Construction worker to friend: That guy's got a job at fuckin' fudge pack city!

–33rd & 6th

Overheard by: EthanK

Black construction worker to girl on street: Giiiiiirl, you lookin' good. (to orthodox boys) See, it's that easy.

–Near Edward R Murrow High School

Construction worker on scaffolding, yelling to another: Look! It's a bird! No! It's a plane! No! It's my cock!

–Driggs & N 12th, Greenpoint

Overheard by: Rebecca

Girl to gay guy: If you were a bird, you would totally be one that wore a tuxedo every day.
Gay guy: Lets go to the Bronx Zoo.

–45th & Lexington

Overheard by: CBro

Mom: You have to start feeding your birds, honey.
Little girl: I don't want to.
Mom: It's called “responsibility”, you need…
Little girl, interrupting: I don't like birds!

–27th St

Preppy gay guy #1: They are so nasty and full of diseases.
Preppy gay guy #2: What, the pigeons?
Preppy gay guy #1: No, the children.

–Central Park

Black girl: I'm gonna have my dog bite your ass.
Black boy: Yeah, right, I'll sic mad pigeons after that shit.

–E 103rd & Lexington

Blonde chick to dude: Isn't he, like, koreish?

–F Train

Dude on cell: It's not even like a relationship, it's all texting, it's a textationship.

–22nd & 1st

Overheard by: loves it

Girl on cell: She was all slippy and shit.

–SoHo

Student to another: The trouble with you is that you got the wrong misconception.

–Broadway & 116th

Overheard by: Cousin Al

Mom, upon examining young son's pruney toes: Jake! What's wrong with your toe? Look, the skin is coming off, it's like you're molding! Just like a little bird! Your foot is molding!

–Prep School Swimming Pool

Overheard by: I dream of Jean

Teen on payphone: Listen! Mah words isn't what I'm sayin!

–Fulton & Broadway

Overheard by: Mondo Man

Woman on cell: You thought he was gonna shit on you? Sit? Spit? You gonna need to step up your English game.

–Fulton Street Subway Station

Overheard by: Johnny Twisto