Manhattan

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Tough-looking guy to tough-looking friend: Manhattan is all about shitpiles.

— Manhattan

Overweight woman: “I honesty think there must be a shortage of fabric or material because all shirts are baby tees and all pants are to small and low on the hips, I dont get it”

— Manhattan

Young Yuppie: You’re such a third-generation American Jew.

— 6th Avenue, West Village

Young Woman #1: I have to go to this “dungeon” for my Sexual Psychology class. Do you want to come?
Young Woman #2 in her mid-twenties: Is it like an S&M thing?
Young Woman #1: I don’t know. It’s like they act out different sexual
fantasies with whips and stuff.
Young Woman #2: OK, that sounds cool.

— Upper East Side

Columbia University student #1: The most marginalized group on campus are the college Republicans
Columbia University student #2: No, it’s the Christians

— Private get-together of Columbia students, East Village

Woman upon seeing a Mariachi band walk by: Why do they have tambourines on their legs?

— Manhattan

Woman (night of the New Hampshire primary): KERRY WON!!!!
Friend: What, American Idol?

— Manhattan

Drunk: They’re, like, Mafia terrorists! …but they’re French.

–Divine Bar West

Overheard by: Megan Buckley

Yuppie #1: It’s just like in that movie, Good Will Hunting.
Yuppie #2: I never saw that.
Yuppie #1: What?! Dude, that movie’s like the voice of our generation!
Yuppie #2: Whatever.

–Northeast entrance to Madison Square Park

Contrubuted by: Scott Nybakken