You Know They'd Cook With Transubstantiated Fats

20 year-old guy: What if the afterlife and hell exists? I mean if it does, there has to be a society because billions of people would be there by now.
Friend: Yeah…
20 year-old: So that's a lot of people, like a society has to emerge since there can't be that many demons and torturers. You would have like a McDonald's and people working there. (pause) But you could be working there, and it could be every day for an eternity.
Friends: That's so much worse than hell.

–New Jersey Transit, Port Authority Bus Terminal

Posted on September 12, 2019
Compare/Contrast, Death, Friends, Guys, Jobs & Careers, On the Bus, Port Authority, Religion

Or Potentially “Holy Moley”

Guy: Yeah… I don’t know what key they’re singing it in.
Girl: Well if she’s singing it in the Betty Buckley key… that’s like in the key of whoa.

–Queens-bound N Train

Overheard by: cwazy nooh yawkerr

Posted on September 8, 2019
About Celebrities, Default, Girls, Guys, Music, On the Subway, Singing

Kinda Difficult to Write About Donkey Punching Without It

NYU dude #1: What sources did you use for the final?
NYU dude #2: Urbandictionary.com.
NYU dude #1: Awesome.

–Washington Square South

Overheard by: Lezbotron

Posted on September 2, 2019
Default, Education, Guys, Internet, Questions, Students, Washington Square Park

Wednesday One-Liners Do Dallas

Hobo: I was an extra in the movie [inaudible] Times Square, man! Did you see it? I was the one down on my knees screaming, ‘I’m a born-again porno addict!’

–N train

Man on cell: Yo, dude, I don’t know what to get! They got all kinds of shit in there!

–Outside adult video store, 14th & 6th

Overheard by: Sarah

Hot chick on cell: Why are you so stressed?! This sounds like a good thing! Don’t be so serious about it! It’ll be okay! Here, did you know there’s an animal rights group called ‘Porn Stars for Pups’?

–The Black Sheep

Overheard by: Argopelter

Guy on cell, pushing by couple with baby in stroller: I’m not going to California! I pay her twelve hundred dollars per hour. If she doesn’t sleep with Niko, then fire her! I lost a hundred thirty-eight fucking grand yesterday! Tell her what to do, and deal with it!

–Horatio & Hudson

Overheard by: Stephen Lindsay

Angry girl to friend: Seriously, Chris, can’t we go one day without talking about shizer porn?!

–East Village

Posted on August 27, 2019
Animals & Nature, Bars & Clubs, Default, Girls, Guys, Hobos, Lower East Side, Money & Class, Movies, On Cell, On the Subway, Politics, Poop, Porn, Store, U.S. Geography, Union Square and East Village

Wednesday Hold-on-There's-Someone-on-the-Other-Liners

60-year-old man on cell: I want you to do a big fave for me, okay? Call my aunt's house. If my aunt picks up, hang up.

–B4 Bus

Overheard by: Victoria Tarasova

Dude on cell: No, it's okay, my cellphone is attached to my hand. It's part of my hand!

–Restaurant Bathroom, 7th Ave

Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster

NYU guy on cell, snottily: No wait, wait… Is it full because you keep leaving them for me and I never bother to listen? (pause) Voicemail is a dead technology, dad.

–Bus

Overheard by: liz

Woman on crutches: People think I'm talking on one of those Bluetooth-headphone-cell phones. Nah. I'm just talking to myself. Pfft! I ain't got no cell phone! I just talk to myself! That's right!

–Food Stamp Office, 14th St

Overheard by: Erica Schreiner

African American man on cell: I gotta go. I got Richard Simmons on the other line.

–30th St & Madison Ave

Overheard by: mike v

Posted on August 27, 2019
About Celebrities, Age/Aging, All Wednesday One-Liners, Black People, Body Parts, Bus, Cell Phone, Family Ties, Fitness, Guys, Men, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Offers and requests, Office, On Cell, On the Bus, One-liners, Parents, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Retards & Handicaps, Students, Stupidity, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Wishes & desires, Women

…As Our High School Honors Project.

Guy #1: After Jim moved to Riverhead, he doesn't come out to the city anymore to hang out.
Guy #2: Fuck those Long Island people. Fuck 'em. Let those Mercedes-driving assholes go to Roosevelt Field Mall and climb that fuckin' rock wall for fun while we get drunk and bang bitches under the 59th St bridge.

–Outside Macy's, Herald Square

Posted on August 26, 2019
Default, Grocery Stores, Guys, Insults, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Money & Class, NYC Geography

But I’ll Do Heroin with You the Next Day

Guy #1: You wanna come with me to get coffee tomorrow?
Guy #2: No. I’m going to be picking up the pieces of my life tomorrow.

–Lafayette & White

Overheard by: Hey, me too

Posted on August 19, 2019
Guys, Jobs & Careers, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport

Is This Possible? On the Next Mythbusters…

Guy #1: So… You’re saying you got herpes?
Guy #2: That’s what I’m sayin’! I ain’t even messed around or nothin’!

–Penn Station

Posted on August 13, 2019
Guys, Penn Station, STDs

Nobody Trusts a Chubby Hobo

Guy from restaurant to hobo: Hey, do you want something to drink?
Hobo: Sure, what do you have?
Guy from restaurant: Pepsi, Coke, Sprite…
Hobo: Anything diet?

–75th & Broadway

Overheard by: uneditedtales

Posted on August 11, 2019
Diet/Weight, Drinks, Guys, Hobos, Offers and requests, Stupidity, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Wishes & desires

Hokay, I No Steal

American guy: All the buildings in New York City are made with brick. No steel. So if there's an earthquake, we're all dead.
Foreign guy: No steel?
American guy: No steel. All brick. If there's an earthquake, we're all dead.
(foreign guy giggles hysterically)

–111th & Broadway

Overheard by: Ladle

Posted on August 6, 2019
Accidents, Death, Foreigners, Guys, Questions, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center

Guys