Thank God the Wednesday One-Liners’ Strike Is Over

Chick on cell: We can’t let Blair and Tootie control our lives!

–LIRR

Overheard by: Poogins

Homeless crazy black guy to three scared white girls in their twenties: Time is crazy. Oh man, what time is "Desperate Housewives" on?!

–10th Street & 3rd Ave

Large latino: Yo, it was so good last night, I mean I can’t believe you missed it. It was the best episode I’ve seen yet, seriously bro… Well the main thing that happened was Heidi tried to apologize to LC and she was all like: "I wanna forget you!" I was like: "Whaaaaaat? For real?" It was crazy, you gotta catch it!

–Times Square Office Building

Overheard by: SUSAN

Redhead: The "Brady Bunch" world is a world without urges.

–Veniero’s, 11th St between 1st & 2nd

Overheard by: Ursula & Winifred

Muscular guy: He comes up to me talking all this shit, saying that he’ll bring it. Bring what? He’s not gangsta like I am, he ain’t thug like me. Skinny motherfucka looks like a damn burnt-out Screech.

–On the Bus

Fulsome girl with bad dye job: I’m like: "I watch ‘Law and Order: SVU’, I’m not getting in your van."

–15th between 6th and 7th

Overheard by: Disunionsquare

Aries Spears, in line for an Ashlee Simpson autograph: I’m the black guy from MADtv! [Grabs a random girl’s camera and snaps a picture of them together and walks away.]

–Virgin Mobile Mega Store, Times Square

Posted on June 3, 2020
A-List, About Celebrities, Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Bank, Black People, Buildings, Cars and Driving, Compare/Contrast, Compliments, Crazies, Crazy, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Grocery Stores, Guys, Homeless, Hootchies, Insults, Latinos, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, On Cell, On the Bus, Questions, Sexuality, Store, Street, Thugs, Time, Times Square, Trains Not Subway, TV, Union Square and East Village, Women

Facebook May Need to Tighten Up the Privacy Controls Again

Seven-year-old kid #1: Did you see pookie at school the other day?
Seven-year-old kid #2: Yeah, but I don't know… Her personality at school is all nice and shit, but have you seen her Facebook profile?! You can tell that bitch likes to fuck!

–Q Train

Posted on June 1, 2020
Facebook, Kids, Nicknames & name calling, On the Subway, Questions, School and studying, Sex

Jesus Isn't Always the Answer, Y'know

NYU journalism professor: Okay, so who invented the European letter press in the 15th century?
Attentive female student in the back: Jesus!
(TA giggles)

–NYU

Posted on May 29, 2020
History & Geography, Jesus, Laughter, NYU, Questions, Students, Stupidity, Teachers/Professors

We’re Sure There’s a “Brazilian Rainforest” Joke in Here Somewhere

Student #1: She’s from the Dominican Republic, right?
Student #2: Um, yeah, I think so.
Student #1: Is she classy…?
Student #2: Eh, not really, no. At the meeting the other day, she was wearing a skirt. I could see her cooch.
Student #3: [Just joining the conversation] What’s a cooch?
[Silence.]Student #1: Her vagina.
Student #2: Her forest. Except it was barren. There were no trees. Barren.

–Columbia University

Posted on May 24, 2020
Clothing, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Default, Foreigners, Global Geography, Questions, Students, Vagina, Waxing, Words

Thanks, Heteronormative Tourist!

Australian tourist: Excuse me, mate, do you know where Hooters is?
Guy: Yeah, go up to 56th, take a left. It’s between 7th and Broadway on the right.
Australian tourist: Thanks mate!
Guy to friend: Hey, I just got taken for a straight New Yorker.

–54th St & Madison

Overheard by: The other gay Bostonian

Posted on May 23, 2020
Default, Directions, Foreigners, Guys, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Questions

But the Passport's for Boring Old Latvia.

Guy waiting on passport line: I'd like an expedited passport.
Postal worker: Oooh! Going anywhere fun?
Guy: Florida.

–Post Office, Brooklyn Heights

Overheard by: BLSwhatwhat

Posted on May 23, 2020
9 to 5-ers, Brooklyn, Guys, Idiots, Post Office, Questions, Stupidity, U.S. Geography

That's the Last Time I Buy an Invisibility Cloak at Forever 21

Man, almost bumping into hobo: Oh, excuse me.
Hobo: What!? You can see me!?
Man: Yes.
Hobo: Fuck! My invisibility wore off!

–120th & Amsterdam

Posted on May 21, 2020
Apologies, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Hobos, Homeless, Men, Questions, Weirdness

Well I Am Begging with a Starbucks Cup

Hobo: Can you spare some change? Or food?
Black lady: Nigga, get a job. This neighborhood's gone too bourgeois for your ass to be begging.

–West 4th

Overheard by: bella

Posted on May 17, 2020
Advice, Black People, Compare/Contrast, Default, Food, Hobos, Homeless, Jobs & Careers, Money & Class, Offers and requests, Panhandling, Questions, West Village, Women

Um, Why Do You Think Mirrors Were Invented?

Girlfriend: So, you want to make out?
Boyfriend: Both of us?
Girlfriend: Uh… yeah, generally that's how it works.

–A Train

Posted on May 15, 2020
Boyfriends, Girlfriends, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, On the Subway, Questions, Stupidity, Wishes & desires

The Unbearable Lightness Of Wednesday One-Liners

Rastafarian man to white basketball female player with dreads: Hey! Why you white people always trying to look like me!

–Union Square

Black guy selling Empire State Building tickets: You're from Scotland? I love the Scots… They're puuuuuuurrreee white!

–Outside Empire State Building

Black woman to another, about frat guys nearby: Man, white people are so loud.

–109th & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Becks

Black hobo to white teen: Get out of this neighborhood with your white crotch! You don't belong here!

–Upper West Side

Black woman to cops walking away: But I'm a Caucasian!

–Bed-Stuy

Posted on May 13, 2020
All Wednesday One-Liners, Athletes, Black People, Brooklyn, Colors, Compare/Contrast, Cops, Empire State Building, Frat Boys, Hair, Hobos, One-liners, Physical appearance, Private Parts, Questions, Race, Street, Teens, Union Square and East Village, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Vendors & Street Performers, Wednesday One-Liners, White People, Women

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