Salesgirl: Can I help you?
Teen in short skirt and chewing gum: Um, hi. I’m looking for a book called, um, um, ‘The Da-something Code.’
Salesgirl: The Da Vinci Code?
Teen in short skirt and chewing gum: Yeah, something.
–Barnes & Noble
Salesgirl: Can I help you?
Teen in short skirt and chewing gum: Um, hi. I’m looking for a book called, um, um, ‘The Da-something Code.’
Salesgirl: The Da Vinci Code?
Teen in short skirt and chewing gum: Yeah, something.
–Barnes & Noble
Guy: Hey, isn’t that the painting from the Titanic?
Girlfriend: That is not even a possibility.
Guy: [looks confused] Well then, it’s one of them. And look! It was made in 1917!
–Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pipelayer #1: I need four more inches.
Pipelayer #2: If I had four more inches, I’d be makin’ movies.
–Bergen Street station
Five-year-old girl: My favorite part of the movie was the naked man!
Mother: Mine too, mama.
Five-year-old girl: Naked maaaaaaaan!
Father: Make her stop.
–Park Avenue & 25th St
Teacher: Who remembers Some Like It Hot?
Student: Isn’t that the one where in the end they’re all on a boat and it blows up?
–Cinema Studies class, NYU
Overheard by: Andrew Jacobs
Film professor: What kind of movie causes a bodily reaction?
Student:… Pornography?
Film professor: And what does pornography cause your body to produce?
Student, after long pause: Bodily… fluids?
Film professor: Otherwise known as… Cum!
–Columbia Universtiy
Bearish guy: Did I tell you I got a lead in a film?
Friend: No. Congratulations!
Bearish guy: Yeah, it's a bear film–but it's not a porn!
–23rd & 8th
Overheard by: Daniel
Stone cold crazy panhandler lady, entering subway car: That man in the brown jacket, who's gonna tell you not to give me money, he's the JonBenet Ramsey rapist.
Impressed observer, reaching for wallet: That was definitely worth a dollar.
Stone cold crazy panhandler lady, walking on: And then in Carrie, they put the blood on the people and then they jerked off the dog.
Impressed observer: I should have given her two dollars.
–Downtown D Train
Overheard by: stephie
Chick with headset directing sidewalk traffic: Excuse me. Please cross the street here… You can’t pass here…
20-ish chick: What are you guys filming?
Chick with headset: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
20-ish chick: Hahaha! That shit sucks! Hahaha!
–E 8th St & University Pl