Animal, Wednesday One-Liner, or Mineral?

Man trying on hat: Hey! Do I look like John Wayne in this hat? Watch out, pilgrim! I'm planting roses!

–Botanical Garden

Girl to friend: I need a twig or a leaf or an herb or somethin'.

–C Train

White guy on cell: It's the goddamn Cherry Blossom Festival… so get your ass out here.

–Outside Brooklyn Botanical Garden

Maintenance worker to another: Oh, come on! It's not working now. Let's try plugging it into the tree.

–42 St & 2nd Ave

Flower vendor: Shut up nigga, I'll slap you! Fresh roses!

–7th Ave & 26th

Overheard by: Todd

Posted on August 13, 2008
About Celebrities, All Wednesday One-Liners, Bitch-slap, Brooklyn, Celebrations/Parties, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Coworkers, Friends, Girls, Men, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Movies, Offers and requests, On Cell, On the Subway, Physical appearance, Questions, Threats, Trees and plants, Vendors & Street Performers, White People

And a Concentration Camp Is Where They Make the Orange Juice

Tween girl looking at internment camp exhibit: Mom, what's an internment camp?
Mother: Umm… I think it's, like, a place where you go when you get a job as an intern.

–International Center of Photography Museum, Avenue of the Americas & 43rd St

Overheard by: Chris

Posted on August 12, 2008
Default, Girls, Jobs & Careers, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Moms, More museums, Questions, Stupidity, Tweens, Words

How Do You Get a Flyer Guy to Shut Up? Discuss

Flyer guy: Rainbow room! Discount admission! Observatory! Rainbow room!
(goth chick unbuttons her shirt)
Flyer guy: Rainbow room… Uh…
(goth chick reveals a Batman t-shirt)
Flyer guy, recovering: Discount admission! Observatory!
Goth chick (in menacing voice): I'm Batman.
Flyer guy: Rainbow room! Discount admission! Batman! We got batman in Gotham! Observatory! Rainbow room! Batman! Discount admission!

–Rockefeller Plaza

Overheard by: Rose Fox

Posted on August 12, 2008
Buildings, Default, Flyer people, Free stuff!, Girls, Goths, Offers and requests, Rockefeller Center, Superheroes, Weirdness

Obsessively. Why?

Girl #1: You wrinkle your nose when you sleep.
Girl #2: I do?
Girl #1: Yeah.
Girl #2: Wait, you watch me while I'm sleeping?

–Port Authority

Overheard by: Ariana

Posted on August 12, 2008
Body Parts, Default, Fears, Friends, Girls, Port Authority, Questions, Weirdness

While He Was Pushing Your Buttons

Girl #1: He's a jerk and I hate him.
Girl #2: I don't know… He just kind of rubs me the wrong way.
Girl #3: Ew… When!?

–E 53 St

Posted on August 12, 2008
Default, Girls, Insults, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Sexuality

All Ten Seasons of Friends, in a Nutshell

Guy: Rachel! You're so stupid!
Rachel: I'm not stupid! I'm just sexy.

–5th Ave

Posted on August 11, 2008
Beauty, Compare/Contrast, Default, Girls, Guys, Insults, Manhattan, Physical appearance, Words

Like a Sacred Cow, I Graze Wherever I Go

Girl #1: What's D'Agostino's?
Girl #2: It's an Indian restaurant. I eat there all the time!

–10th St & University

Overheard by: Haley

Posted on August 11, 2008
Default, Ethnic Food, Friends, Girls, Names, Questions, Stupidity, The Village

Ugh, Food Babies Are The Worst

20-something girl #1: I’ve been so sick today.
20-something girl #2: Oh no! Why?
20-something girl #1: Must have been those two squash and spaghetti sandwiches I ate yesterday.
20-something girl #2: Oh, right!
(momentary pause)
20-something girl #1: So, have you ever been pregnant?

–Ladies Room, Vento Trattoria

Headline by: Alex

Runners-Up:
· “It’s The Perfect Way to Justify My Incredibly Bizarre Eating Habits” – Caitlin
· “It’s Usually the After Dinner Drinks That Get Me Pregnant.” – Bud
· “No, But Sometimes I Pretend to Be So People Don’t Mock My Food Choices” – o k
· “So Began the Story Of the Immaculate Conception Of the Flying Spaghetti Monster” – Jared
· “The Day Peggy Learned Squash-and-Spaghetti-Sandwich Contraception Is a Myth” – Steve
· “The Shift in Topic Was So Jarring, Tina Had to Be Hospitalized.” – Sam
· “They Don’t Call Me “Subtle Stacy” for Nothing” – fresca

Click here to see the new Headline Contest

Posted on August 11, 2008
Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Food, Girls, Gripes, Headline Contest Winners, Health and Hygiene, Illness, Pregnancy & Birth Control, Restaurants & Cafes, Stall Spies

Or the Key to the Lock-Box Containing It, Anyway

Chick #1: Let's have a baby together.
Chick #2: Let's do it. Which one of us is going to have it?
Chick #1: You are.
Chick #2: Why me?
Chick #1: Because I have the dick.

–Party, 6th St, Park Slope

Overheard by: hooked up with her the night before

Posted on August 11, 2008
Babies, Compare/Contrast, Default, Friends, Gender issues, Girls, Offers and requests, Park Slope, Penis, Weirdness

“I Have Scabies” Works Equally Well

Creep (yelling out of window): Oh, sexy! Look at you in that red shirt! I love girls in colors!
Girl #1 (yelling and running): I'm married!
Girl #2: Shit, don't say that. You look like you're 12, no one will believe you're married.
Girl #1: Yeah, I should have said I was a lesbian.
Girl #2: He'll just think it's hot!
Girl #1: I did always think that was so weird about guys.
Girl #2: It's not just guys. A lot of girls think lesbians are hot, too.
Girl #1: Yeah, like, especially lesbians.

–6th Ave

Posted on August 11, 2008
Age/Aging, Colors, Compliments, Creepsters, Default, Friends, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Lies, Manhattan, Marriage, Physical appearance, Sexuality

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