I Was Filled with the Holy Spirit –Until I Peed.

20-something girl: … And then he drank the holy water, wait, no. I drank the holy water, and he got sick, but I didn’t.
20-something guy: Did it cure your gout?
20-something girl, angrily: I don’t have the gout!

–Crowded Elevator, Atlantic Ave Station, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Tigertail

Posted on May 19, 2008
Brooklyn, Christianity, Compare/Contrast, Default, Drinking & Drunk People, Elevators, Girls, Guys, Illness, Questions, Subway stations, platforms, etc.

It’s Not a Party ’til Steve and Lucky Show Up

Bald white guy: You know Steve, right?
Asian woman: Steve? Who’s Steve?
Bald white guy: Oh, he’s the gay guy with the three-legged dog.

–43rd & 9th

Posted on May 19, 2008
Asians, Default, Guys, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Questions, We Love Our Pets, Weirdness, White People, Women

Hmm, According to This, It’s a Musical

Guy: Wait, what part of New York is Chicago in?
Girl: What?! Chicago isn’t in New York! Chicago is its own state.
Guy: No, it’s not a state! It’s called the “windy city.”
Girl: Oh, right. I guess it is in New York then.
Guy: Yeah.
Girl: Hang on, I’ll look it up on my blackberry.

–Fordham University

Posted on May 18, 2008
Blackberry, Default, Fordham, Girls, Guys, Idiots, Names, NYC Geography, Questions, Stupidity, U.S. Geography

My Daughter Licks the Screen Whenever We Turn on the Cooking Channel

Guy: Is there such a thing as too hi-res?
Girl: Yea, it’s called real life.

–16th St & 5th Ave

Overheard by: John Fischetti

Posted on May 18, 2008
Default, Girls, Guys, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Names, Philosophy, Questions, Street, Words

So You Don’t Countess

Dreadlocked sales clerk: What I need is a bronze princess.
Latina sales clerk: I’m bronze.
Dreadlocked sales clerk: Yeah, but you ain’t a princess.

–Billionaire Boys Club, SoHO

Overheard by: Russ Wall

Posted on May 18, 2008
9 to 5-ers, Compare/Contrast, Coworkers, Default, Girls, Guys, Latinos, Offers and requests, Soho, Store, Wishes & desires

Didn’t They Kick Beethoven Off the Charts?

Skinny 20-something guy: Before grunge there was nothing. The world was hungry for grunge.
Shorter 20-something guy: Yeah, I’ve just rediscovered Stone Temple Pilots

–F Train

Overheard by: Jen

Posted on May 16, 2008
Default, Guys, Music, On the Subway, Skinny People

Thought Shaq Should Have Been Oscar-Nominated for His Work in Kazaam

20-something dude #1: I saw that fucking movie No Country for Old Men yesterday.
20-something dude #2: Did you like it?
20-something dude #1: It was a low-budget piece of shit. I like quality movies. Like National Treasure – Book of Secrets. That was a great fucking movie!

–4 Train

Posted on May 15, 2008
Compare/Contrast, Compliments, Default, Friends, Guys, Insults, Movies, On the Subway

Motorboatable Wednesday One-Liners

20-something woman to friends: I mean they said they’d pay me $20 for it. I would show them one for $20, why not? One boob for $20? I mean, maybe they thought it was a big deal since we were at work.

–N Train Platform, 34th St Station

Overheard by: Regina

[Two young woman crossing the street. One turns to the the other and grabs her breast.]Grabber girl: Honk!
[Both giggle and cross street into Victoria’s Secret.]

–34th & Broadway

Overheard by: Chockita

Female boss to employee in low-cut shirt: Your boobs are awesome. But -I’m just gonna have to do this. [Pulls up employee’s neckline.] Because…I just wanna dive in there. Head-first.

–Theater, St Marks Place

Overheard by: fhqwhgads

Professor: So you see, men only like women’s boobs because of cleavage.

–Bard High School Early College

Tourist girls: [In unison from the door] Booooobies! [Run to the big naked lady sculpture and poses to take a picture].

–Columbus Circle

Teen girl to friend: Julia! Put your titties away!

–14th & 6th

Bored, drunken guy in a silent train cart: So does anyone wanna show their titties?

–NJ Transit

Overheard by: Not drunk enough to flash