Somehow RuPaul Always Gets the Short End of the Stick

Black guy: It is the last day of Black History Month and nobody sent me a card?
White guy: Well then, happy Black History Month.
Black guy: Yeah sure, whatever!
White guy: No, seriously, thank you! Thank you for Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Richard Pryor…
Black guy: Well I guess tomorrow I have to back to sitting in the back of the bus!
White guy: No! What are you talking about? We don’t pick on blacks anymore! That’s what gays are for!
Black guy: Ohhh!

–Graham Street station

Overheard by: Philip Rafferty

Posted on October 2, 2015
About Celebrities, Black People, Gays and Lesbians, History & Geography, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Race, Subway stations, platforms, etc., White People

In Wednesday One-Liners We Trust

Hipster chick: Popping a blister is like smacking god in the face!

–Fordham University, Lincoln Center

Overheard by: Alice

Homeless man on train begging for money by telling jokes: A black man and a white man go into a bar. They get into a fight with each other. And then they die. And then they go to heaven and god says to them: "What it is… what it is!"

–1 Train

Overheard by: Kristin

Girl to friend: I’m gonna have to get ghetto on god!

–61st & Broadway

Overheard by: lizzerd

Homeless man says to homeless woman: Now, these people are trying to hoodwink god!

–Seventh Ave & Lincoln Place, Park Slope

Overheard by: Annie

Professor to students: God is not a drug dealer!

–Fordham University

Posted on September 1, 2015
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Hold the Phone! DMX is Black?!

Chick: Can I make a request?
DJ guy: Sure, if I got it….
Chick: Can you play some black music?
DJ guy: By “black music” you mean music performed by black people?
Chick: Yeah!
DJ guy: Do you mean Chuck Berry black music or, like, DMX black music?

–Motor City Bar, Ludlow Street

Overheard by: DR

Posted on August 28, 2015
Bars & Clubs, Girls, Music, Musicians, Offers and requests, Race, Talking/Convos

Skinny Crackers Are Good For You. Period.

Black teenage girl on cell: I don’t care if he is a skinny white dude. I’m telling you right now, as long as I don’t have my period I’m gonna screw that cracker.

–7th Ave, Park Slope

Posted on August 17, 2015
Bimbettes, Black People, Menstruation, On Cell, Park Slope, Race, Sex, Teens

At Least, That’s What I Heard

JAP #1: Isn’t The Pursuit of Happyness an action movie? Because he needs money–
JAP #2: –Not all black people need to shoot people for money.

–Lehman College cafeteria

Overheard by: can’t breathe

Posted on August 15, 2015
College, JAPs, Money & Class, Movies, Race, Shoot, Stupidity

You Can Fake the Attitude, Even the Look, But In the End, Either You Have a Horizontal Vagina or You Don’t

Dude #1: She’s just got this, y’know, Asian air about her.
Dude #2: Yeah?
Dude #1: She’s got this, like, totally anime look.
Dude #2: Yeah?
Dude #1: Yeah, but I wish she were really Asian.

–88th & 1st

Overheard by: Beeeej

Posted on August 14, 2015
Asians, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Pop Culture, Race, Upper East Side

I Guess Today They’re Riding

Old black lady: Oh lord, Satan’s children are walking the streets
Goth kid: Shut the fuck up, Rosa Parks. Go sit in the back of the fucking bus!

–M86 bus

Overheard by: Metal Martyr

Posted on August 14, 2015
Black People, Girls, God Squad, Guys, History & Geography, Insults, Old People, On the Bus, Race, Religion, Threats, Weirdness, Women

Wednesday One-Liners Really Bug Me

Geek speedwalking through rush-hour crowd with hands over head: Parasites, parasites, parasites!

–34th St & 7th Ave

Overheard by: it is what it is

African-American lady: The secret life of… What? Who's "bees"?

–Loews Kips Bay

Overheard by: Robert Gleyberman

Woman: I'm a fruit fly. That's like a fag hag, only prettier.

–3rd & St. Mark's

Female suit on cell: We're dealing with racist ladybugs here.

–44th & Lexington

Overheard by: LP421

Posted on August 8, 2015
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Half-Credit for Originality

High school guy: Why they called us ‘niggers’? They wake up and say, ‘We callin ’em ‘niggers’ from now on!’ or something?
High school girl: No, idiot, ’cause they got us from the Nigger River in Africa.

–CCNY, 135th Convent Ave

Overheard by: APR 04 Alum

Posted on August 6, 2015
City College, Idiots, Race, Stupidity

The Audacity Of Wednesday One-Liners

Black guy, cutting in front of line at movie theater: Excuse me, Barack Obama is President now. Thank you.

–AMC Movie Theater

Overheard by: Emmy

Man with hand stuck in bus door to bus driver: We got a black President and you actin' like this? You civil service!

–14D Bus

Sketching Jamaican hobo: Obama is some kinda skateboard.

–Shuttle to Times Square

Subway hobo: How come Obama don't have sex with his wife no more? Because every time she opens her legs, he sees bush!

–1 Train

Man to toddler in his arms: That's Obama. He's gonna save us all from doom! From doom!

–University & 12th St

Posted on August 6, 2015
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