Health and Hygiene

Girl #1: So I hear you’re single again.
Girl #2: Yeah, it’s great. I can stop shaving my ass!

–Outside Starbucks, Times Square

Headline by: Marsha Mellow

Runners-Up:

· “Donkey Breathes Sigh of Relief” – Mike Curry

· “Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Shorn” – Adrianne

· “It was the happiest day of Mother Teresa’s life.” – Dave

· “Oh, good, Oprah is back on the market!” – Anna

· “So easy, even a caveman can do it!” – waxes!

· “When she’s dating again she’ll cut it all off and donate it to cancer victims” – Peter B

· “You’re Not Gonna Stop Shaving Mine, Are You?” – Trey Jackson


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Guy #1: Dude, I would never do heroin, that’s so whack.
Guy #2: What do you mean? It’s got, like, nine vitamins in it!

–E train, 34th St

Overheard by: Jatmos

The most flamingly queer man in history: I ain’t sittin’ down, I don’t wanna touch nothin’. This place is a cesspool.
Sexually ambiguous friend: Baby, you’ll take it bareback, bent over in a bar bathroom, but you won’t take a damn seat?

–C train

NYU chick: No, that can’t be true.
NYU dude: I’m dead serious — I couldn’t make that up!
NYU chick: So, you are honestly telling me that if you don’t wash your ball sack, you will grow cheese?

–10th St, between 5th Ave & University

Guy: You can pour all the soup on it you want, that still won’t make it pancakes.
Woman, desperate: You don’t seem to realize, cigarettes are addictive!

–Astor Place

Overheard by: Liz

Girl #1: Hey, so I went to that sushi place you told me to go to last night, and I got food poisoning!
Girl #2: Oh. Hey, you went there? How was it?
Girl #1: I got food poisoning.
Girl #2: Yeah, but how was it before the vomiting set in?

–Ameritania Hotel

Girl: Do you think I should have a party?
Mother: No, no one would come.
Girl: Why not?
Mother: Because you smell.

–Jamba Juice, Times Square

Mourner: Hi, I haven’t seen you in a long time! How’s your mother?
Priest: She’s okay. She won’t be coming today because she’s not feeling well. She just turned 95.
Mourner: 95! She’s that old? Holy crap!

— Funeral Home, Rockaway Blvd, Queens

Overheard by: Les Izzmore

Customer: That guy? He was in a production of Fiddler on the Roof with me!
Bartender: Really? I thought he had Tourette’s!
Customer: Oh, he does.

–Bar, 14th St & 7th Ave

Pharmacist: Do you have any allergies?
Woman: No, I’m not allergic to anything. Except maybe no good men. Yeah, write that down, I’m allergic to no good men!

–Duane Reade, 100 William St

Overheard by: shemah