Wednesday One-Liners from Beyond the NYC Event Horizon

Five-year-old girl, holding her nose, to mother: It smells here! It smells like New Jersey! Mommy! It smells like New Jersey!

–Grand Central

Overheard by: Cicero

Teenager: Oh, wow, I didn't know New Jersey had any buildings.

–Christopher St. Pier

Girl on cell: I think I slept with a whore. Then I woke up in Jersey.

–Washington Square

Overheard by: Rachel

Crazy-sounding drunk girl: Ewww, why are there so many people from New Jersey here?

–Bowery & E 4th

Overheard by: do they emit a particular odor?

NYU guy trying to impress girls: My dad actually grew up right around here. Well…in New Jersey.

–St. Mark's & 3rd Ave

Girl sitting on raised metal platform on front deck to friend: Hey, do you want to turn around? We're looking at Jersey again.

–NYU LSP Boat Cruise

Posted on July 1, 2009
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Nor the Laws Of Time and Space

Tourist #1, looking at subway exits: North side or south side?
Tourist #2: What's the difference?
Tourist #1: Well north is north…and south is south.
(both look from one exit to the next and look at each other)
Passing New Yorker: Are you going uptown or downtown?
Tourist #1, thinking: Hmmmm….west.
New yorker: West of 8th…but uptown or downtown? West side of what street?
Tourist #1: Hmm… West side of…23rd Street?
New Yorker, walking away: You don't know what the hell you're doing.

–23rd St

Posted on June 28, 2009
Directions, NYC Geography, Questions, Strangers, Street, Stupidity, Tourism, Tourists

Then Where Are All the Apples, Smart Guy?

Girl: Where is gate 68?
Port authority official: Where are you going?
Girl: New York!
Port authority official, walking away: This is New York.

–Port Authority

Posted on June 8, 2009
Directions, Girls, NYC Geography, Port Authority, Questions, Security Guards

Tomorrow's Lesson: The Boston Red Sox

Toddler, pointing to the Bronx on subway map: What?
Father: Yeah! That's the Bronx, baby girl! Yankee stadium. Better than the Mets and you best not forget! The Mets suck! The Yankees stink, but the Mets suck.

–L Train

Posted on May 22, 2009
Compare/Contrast, Dads, Insults, Kids, Mets, NYC Geography, On the Subway, Parents, Questions, Yankees

I Knew I Used Too Much Product This Morning

30-something woman: I thought you lived in Jersey.
30-something man: Do I look like I live in Jersey?

–William St & Platt

Overheard by: Brunni

Posted on April 13, 2009
Men, NYC Geography, Physical appearance, Questions, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport, Women

Close!

Street corner punk #1: Where did she say she lives?
Street corner punk #2: Yonkers.
Street corner punk #1: Yonkers? There's no place called “Yonkers”! She was playin' you, man.
Street corner punk #2: Whatchoo talkin' about, man? Yonkers is a city!
Street corner punk #2: Yeah right. There's also a city called “my balls.”

–Sutphin Blvd & 89th Ave, Jamaica

Overheard by: Big Larry

Posted on March 27, 2009
Balls, Names, NYC Geography, Punks, Queens, Questions, Stupidity

Like When Gandalf and Frodo Sailed Off to the Gray Havens

Ghetto hipster #1: I've never been to Queens!
Ghetto hipster #2: Queens is where like…retired cops from the Bronx go to retire and feel safe.

–L Train

Overheard by: anna

Posted on March 27, 2009
Cops, Hipsters, NYC Geography, On the Subway

Yet When We Insinuate That, We Get Angry Emails.

College girl: Yeah, it's “Soho,” south of Houston, and “Noho,” North of Houston. Though I guess that's kinda just the village.
College guy: That's what it means? Wow, I didn't know that! Wait, where does the other “o” come from?
College girl: Um…south, and Houston.
College guy: Oh, right. Well, I am from Jersey anyway. I don't even know nothing.

–1 Train

Overheard by: Nathan