You Want Wednesday One-Liners? We Got 'em!

Man handing out New York Post: New York Post! If you're illiterate, only 75 cents! If you only lookin at pictures, 50 cents!

–6th Ave & W 8th St

Overheard by: lady v

Man selling cotton candy: Get your cotton candy here! Cotton candy! I got your all-natural blue fibers of sugar right here! Straight from the blue cotton fields of…Virginia! Cotton candy, here!

–Shea Stadium

Street perfume seller to browser: You like Vera Wang, princess? This is genuine Wang.

–34th & 6th

Overheard by: Weary Communter

Street vendor: Hey, where are you ladies from? (two teenage girls walk by) Oh, that's cool, that's cool, I think I have a friend that lives there!

–7th & 40th

Overheard by: Tiffany

AM New York guy: Sir, would you like a paper this morning? No? No? (shakes head and looks at the ground) I don't care. (pause) It's okay, I don't care.

–145th & St. Nich

Overheard by: sorry charlie

Fake purse salesman: Gucci makes the coochie go woo woo!

–Times Square

Posted on November 26, 2008
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The Least-Nasty Wednesday One-Liners We Could Find

Middle aged lady on cell: Lots of people say Dallas is really nice. Lots of nice people, nice weather. What do you have against it?" (pause) That was in '63!

–M79

Party girl to cool guy: Why can't you let me be nice? I'm not nice to anyone.

–77th & York Ave

Overheard by: UES Suit

Flamboyantly gay guy to crowd of girls at Pinkberry: You know, I was just trying to do something nice, and this is how you treat me? Fuck y'all, I'm gonna be the next President. (storms off)

–St. Mark's

Overheard by: scarface

Garbage man to another: Man, Attica is the best prison. High class. That shit is nice!

–81st & Amsterdam

Overheard by: eliza

Suit on cell: I wonder what his wife is like. She's probably nice, but rich. You know what I mean.

–2nd Ave & 88th St

Woman on cell: Nice people just can't tell if they're pregnant.

–W Houston & Varick

Overheard by: courtney messer

Posted on November 26, 2008
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Wednesday One-Liners Are Pretty Sharp

Conductor: Stand clear of the doors. You are delaying service. (pause, then impatiently) Stand clear of the doors! You are delaying service! (pause) I will come back there and stab you if you do not get out of the doorway.

–Uptown 1 Train

Overheard by: Special K

Loud girl: I will stab someone just to prove a point.

–E 187th

Overheard by: Martian

Woman on cell walking little boy: I told you he was an asshole last weekend. (pause) Why did you expect any different? (pause) You ain't gonna stab no nigga. I'm gonna call you "Captain Stab 'em." (laughs) You always saying you gonna stab somebody!

–Manhattan Bridge

Overheard by: Lacy

20-something man: I know…I just couldn't pull out my sword fast enough.

–Canal St

Overheard by: Richard

Actor: Yeah, it's a great part! I play a father who stabs his son…

–M23 Bus

Young suit: Wouldn't it be awesome if, like, right across the street from my apartment we could buy fireworks? …and swords!

–81st & Broadway

Posted on November 26, 2008
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And His Soup Is Overrated.

Girl: The Nazi?
Guy: The Nazi.
Girl: He's not so bad.

–St. Mark's Place

Posted on November 25, 2008
Girls, Guys, Hitler/Nazis, Lower East Side, Questions, Stupidity

Whatever, Just Say It Loud

Woman to friends: So he and his…what do you call an 80-year-old girlfriend? His main squeeze?
Man: His chick!

–Broadway & 102nd

Headline by: markle9

Runners-Up:
· “Ashton Just Calls Her Demi” – AL
· “His Barely Living Proof Of Gravity?” – Aditya
· “His Early Bird Special?” – Siobhan
· “His Old Lady? Nah, That’s Too Obvious” – BLS Martha
· “I Believe A-Rod Calls Her Madge” – Gross
· “The Cool Kids Would Say “GILF”” – KateNonymous

Click here to see the new Headline Contest

Posted on November 24, 2008
Age/Aging, Friends, Headline Contest Winners, Men, Questions, Relationships, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Women, Words

New Yorkers Are Beginning to Understand How People in Other Countries Feel About Americans

Woman with baby to subway attendant: How do I get to the Empire Trade Center from Canal St?
Friend: Nah, how do we get to where them Twin Towers fell at?

–Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn

Posted on November 23, 2008
9 to 5-ers, Brooklyn, Directions, Friends, Kids, Moms, Questions, Tourism, Tourists, Weirdness

She Usually Keeps a Blonde Around to Make Herself Look Smarter

Drunk redhead: What's your name again?
Not-so-drunk brunette: It's Autumn.
Drunk redhead: You mean like the month?

–41st St

Posted on November 23, 2008
Drunks, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Names, Questions, Stupidity, Words

Then There's an Orchestral Interlude

Guy: Jimmy wrote a rap.
Girl: Is it good?
Guy: It was… “I'ma fuck her, I'ma fuck her, I'ma fuck her, I'ma fuck her in different ways.”
Girl: Oh.

–Park Slope

Overheard by: Alex Berger

Posted on November 23, 2008
Girls, Guys, Music, Park Slope, Questions, Sex, Stupidity

The Size of Their Instruments

Barista: Weren't you showing me some German porn just a little earlier?
Patron: It was not porn! It was a music video! With…lots of naked German men in it.
Barista: And the difference is what, exactly?

–Starbucks Near Brooklyn College

Overheard by: Kosi

Posted on November 22, 2008
Baristas, Bosses, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Music, Nudity, Porn, Questions, Starbucks

Questions