We wanted to point out that we’ve now enabled comments on our entries. While it’s rude to speak in public about something someone else said, here we encourage it.
–The OverheardInNewYork.com Staff, NYC
We wanted to point out that we’ve now enabled comments on our entries. While it’s rude to speak in public about something someone else said, here we encourage it.
–The OverheardInNewYork.com Staff, NYC
Male hockey fan: I swear — if he shows me his ass one more time…
Female hockey fan: I know!
Male hockey fan: Seriously, I’ve seen the inside of his colon.
–33rd & 7th
Headline by: Rhys Southan
Runners-Up:
· “And Trust Me, It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be” – Mike N
· “But I Had to Pay Extra” – Anna
· “Giuliani’s Clean Bill Of Health Proves Not to Be Factor with Voters” – Jatmos
· “Now Let’s Take Off These Rubber Gloves and Go to the Game” – Julie
20-something girl, bawling: It’s not funny! I turn boys gay, Dad.
–Aroma Cafe
Headline by: shudder
Runners-Up:
· “A Father’s Dream Comes True” – 6th Floor Blogger
· “Put Other Daddy on the Phone!” – KJM
· “There Are No Strap-Ons Without Consequences” – Captain Hetero
· “There, There, Liza. It’ll Be Okay.” – Howard Bannister
· “Worst Super Power Ever” – Cricket
Occasionally, we leave New York and also overhear great quotes that we’d like to use on the site, which we haven’t done when they’re not in an Office or Beach. To encourage our eavesdropping, we’ve launched Overheard Everywhere – The Voice of the Rest (of the world outside of New York).
This site is a bit different than our others because, in addition to posting what we overhear ourselves and what our spies tell us, we will also link to the Best Of the other overheards on the Internet, on the hundreds of imitation overheard sites that have popped up — so, if you or a friend of yours runs your own overheard site, tell us about it, and we’ll read it daily and post and link to our favorites on your site, too.
Let us know what you think at hatemail@overheardinnewyork.com or lovemail@overheardinnewyork.com
Team Overheard
This week’s Headline Contest: Here
Starting today, Overheard in New York will be running regular headline contests. What you do: Click on the link at the top left of the site, read the headless entry, and let your brilliance unfold. What you get: Headline credit when the entry is posted, props from friends and coworkers, and a link to your blog (at our discretion).
January 31st sees the release of Overheard in New York, the book. There are apparently people out there who have lives and don’t read websites; now they can see for themselves what this site we all love so much is all about.
The book is perfect subway reading, and makes a great gift for Chicks, Dudes, Old ladies, Tourist moms and Crazy guys. And unlike
almost every other website turned into a book, we weren’t censored. You get the best of the best–and the worst of the worst!–as well as a bunch of quotes we saved especially for the print edition.
We’re very excited and hope to make this an annual tradition. It’ll be
like Zagat’s, but with hobos. You can order it here.
–Morgan & Michael (and 4 pages of contributors!)
