Wednesday One-Liners for the Royal Family

Guy: Yeah, but it's not that hard to keep your mother from having sex with you.

–Washington Heights

Overheard by: V

Man, seriously: If I could marry my daughter I would.

–Duke's Deli, SoHo

Random moviegoer: I have to admit the incest was tastefully done.

–Outside IFC Center

Overheard by: when is it ever?

Suit on cell: I'm in love with my cousin.

–Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Sean C.

Very gay man to another: I don't know, I'm just not attracted to him at all! Maybe because he's my brother…

–Greenwich Ave & 7th Ave

Overheard by: Lily Caulfield

Man shouting to friend: Incest free for a whole three weeks! Yeah!

–1 Train

Posted on October 15, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Crime and Punishment, Delis, Family Ties, Guys, Incest, Love, Marriage, Men, Movie Theaters, On Cell, On the Subway, Parents, Queer guys, Soho, Suits, The Village, Washington Heights and Inwood, Weirdness, Williamsburg, Wishes & desires

If Ann Coulter Can Do It So Many Times, Why Not?

Guy #1:So what did he die of?
Guy #2: HIV–and complications to rattlesnake venom. I gotta write a book, right?

–Chelsea Cinemas, 23rd St

Overheard by: Doug Bost

Posted on September 25, 2008
AIDS, Animals & Nature, Books & Writing, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Death, Default, Guys, Movie Theaters, Questions, Weirdness

And I'm Sleeping With Your Dad!

Two high-school girls in a Super Stretch Hummer, screaming out the window with a smart-ass tone: Enjoy the movie!
Bitchy gay man in line to buy a ticket: Yeah, enjoy the fucking environment, bitch!

–Outside Sunshine Theater, E Houston St.

Overheard by: E.J.

Posted on September 11, 2008
Default, Girls, Insults, Lower East Side, Movie Theaters, Movies, Queer guys, Teens, Weirdness

Wednesday One-Liners Hire Professional Mourners

Drunk dude getting restrained: No, you don't understand. I could murder anyone! Not like my family. My family's all pussies… They're all Ricky Martin!

–Outside Nightcaps, Midwood

Dreadlocked lesbian: I can feel in my heart of hearts that you'll be okay, baby. You didn't kill anybody, you paid a guy to kill somebody.

–Lesbian Bar, Park Slope

Overheard by: gvw

Elderly Eastern European woman to elderly man: A dyke can kill three thousand woman! Most killer in de' world!

–Bedford Avenue & N 10th St, Williamsburg

Overheard by: Ken Thompson

Little boy exiting bathroom: You're not the only one alive here!

–Regal Cinemas, Union Square

Overheard by: MeiLi

Girl to friend: If I died, and you heard about it–please burn me.

–Astoria, 21st St

Professional woman to another: Well, because I know that you are opposed to genocide and everything…

–Union Square

Three-year-old black girl stabbing at her SpaghettiO's: Die cracker die!

–Day Care Center, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Posted on September 10, 2008
About Celebrities, All Wednesday One-Liners, Astoria, Bars & Clubs, Black People, Boys, Brooklyn, Compare/Contrast, Crime and Punishment, Death, Drunks, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Guys, Kids, Lesbians, Movie Theaters, Murder, Offers and requests, Old People, Park Slope, Threats, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness, Williamsburg, Women

The Most Original Thing a Former SNLer Has Done in Years

Employee: Bathrooms are to the left!
Tracy Morgan: Right there?
Employee: Yes, to the left.
Tracy Morgan: Can I go poop in there?
Employee: (laughs) Yes.
Tracy Morgan: I'm gonna poop in there…I gotta go poop!

–AMC Empire Movie Theatre

Posted on August 25, 2008
9 to 5-ers, B-List, Default, Etiquette, Laughter, Movie Theaters, Poop, Questions, Times Square

Then Everybody Launched Into the “Kit-Kat” Song

(woman walks into packed theater looking for boyfriend)
Woman, yelling: Jim*? Jim, where are you?
Random guy in the audience #1: Here!
Random guy #2: Over here!
Random guy #3: Here!
(entire theater starts shouting “here!”)
Woman: C'mon, gimme a break.

–Imax Theater

Overheard by: Goober

Posted on August 10, 2008
Default, Guys, Laughter, Movie Theaters, Questions, Strangers, Weirdness, Women

Armored Bears Are Really a Last Resort

Small child in yarmulke: Mom, why are the bears in armor fighting?
Mother in stockings and wig: I don’t know why, but that’s not very nice. Jews don’t do this, we solve our problems by talking.

–AMC Theatre

Overheard by: bryan

Posted on July 17, 2008
Animals & Nature, Compare/Contrast, Default, Jewish Moms, Jews, Judaism, Kids, Movie Theaters, Movies, Questions

The Only Circumstance Under Which White Men Jump

Crowd watching Indiana Jones trailer: Yeah! Woo hoo!
Young black guy (legitimately surprised): Damn! That whip drives the white folks crazy!

–Court Street Multiplex, Brooklyn

Overheard by: iiams

Posted on June 26, 2008
Black People, Brooklyn, Default, Guys, Movie Theaters, Movies, Race, White People

Great Wednesday One-Liners…. For Me to Poop On!

Five-year-old girl in the men’s bathroom: Hey everybody! Look! I have fat poopies!

–New Dance Group, West 38th St

Random chick: She’s gonna be all over me for shitting today.

–Outside Butler Library, Columbia University

Overheard by: McFreaky

Girl: I so should have taken a dump in that toilet!

–14th & 4th

High school boy: I literally walked in the bathroom and saw like, someone took a dump on the floor; and it was more than one person! And I was just like, wow, is this a new trend or something?

–Fresh Meadows, Queens

Overheard by: Caro-kun

18-year-old CPR/AED instructor on using a defibrillator: …if you’re touching the person when you administer the shock, it won’t kill you, but you might poo a little.

–50th & Broadway

Overheard by: Fred Daubert

Chick: Welp, I am ready to have diarrhea now!

–2nd Ave & 11th

Posted on June 11, 2008
All Wednesday One-Liners, Boys, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Etiquette, Girls, Health and Hygiene, Kids, Library, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Movie Theaters, Poop, Queens, School, Teachers/Professors, Teens, Union Square and East Village, Weirdness

Unless You Plan to Back It Up with Action

Man: What’d you think?
Woman: Just another story about how guys can’t keep their golden horns in their pants.
Man: We can’t help it if our golden horns start to glow whenever we get near a vagina cave.
Woman: Don’t ever let me hear you say that again.

–Leaving IMAX Theatre After Beowulf, Lincoln Sqaure

Overheard by: The Professor

Posted on June 6, 2008
Default, Etiquette, Men, Movie Theaters, Movies, Offers and requests, Penis, Questions, Sexuality, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Women, Words

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