Comedy promoter: Come on! Great show — you know you want to come!
Tourist girl: No, thanks, I’m good. C
Comedy promoter: Come on! We have midget strippers!
–Times Square
Comedy promoter: Come on! Great show — you know you want to come!
Tourist girl: No, thanks, I’m good. C
Comedy promoter: Come on! We have midget strippers!
–Times Square
Long Island girl: 42nd St is where there is lots of prostitution, right?
Female friend: What?
Long Island girl: Yeah, I thought I heard that 42nd St was where all the prostitutes were?
Female friend: Ummm…that’s like Times Square. It’s a major touristy spot.
Male friend: Maybe there’s an occasional strip club?
Long Island girl: Oh my god, I really want to go to a strip club – I’ve never been to one before!
–6 Train
Overheard by: Amused
Headline by: 1310 (formerly SNA)
Runners‐Up:
· “As the Economic Crisis Worsens, Margie Becomes Increasingly Desperate for a Job.” — Carla
· “I Thought Mass Tourism WAS Whoring Yourself Out ?” — Cass
· “If Parents Don’t Have the Sex Industry Talk, Someone Else Will” — space coyote
· “Long Islanders and Tourists Have Become One.” — Fresca
· “That’s How They Get New Recruits” — Skwerl!
Soccer mom: In two weeks, my knitting circle’s going to the strip club.
–28th & Lex
Girl: I want to become a stripper so that I can see Patti LuPone in Gypsy every night.
–St. James Theatre
Overheard by: Erin
Loud NYU chick: Listen to the opening guitar riff of Voodoo child. It makes you want to be a stripper!
–Bobst Library
Overheard by: evil em
Six‐year‐old boy to parents: Oohh! Zombie strippers! Let’s see that!
–Port Authority
Female yuppie: As a general rule of thumb, I think I should refrain from going to the Hustler Club with my male boss and co‐workers from now on.
–Downtown C train
Overheard by: amused passenger
Yuppie: It was the most intense Hava Nagilah I’d ever seen.
–43rd & Lex
Yuppie, examining the New York Public Library: Wow, that library is such a waste of real estate!
–42nd & 5th Avenue
Overheard by: Reader Rabbit
Emo Girl to friend: Oh I love Whole Foods, its like Wal‐Mart for Yuppies.
–Whole Foods, Union Square
Overheard by: Addie Wagenknecht
Yuppie, to McDonald’s cashier: Do you have French vanilla capuccino?
–McDonald’s, 34th & 10th
Girl #1: Remember at that party when that stripper picked up a dollar bill with her pussy lips?
Girl #2: Ohhh, yeah — that wasn’t a stripper. That was a full‐on whore.
–77th & 1st
Overheard by: mjg
Headline by: clink
Runners‐Up:
· “… and It Wasn’t a Dollar Bill. That Was a Full‐on Penis” — Caro
· “America DOES Have Talent” — Staci Lynn
· “Because I Saw That Thing Give Change” — nicky c.
· “But We Call Her Aunt Gladys” — Mark Paul
· “I Was Just Shocked She Did It through Her Jeans.” — SAtCW
· “Kind Of Like the Difference Between Maury Povich and Springer” — alana landa
Woman with strong Southern accent: I am gonna have her bachelorette party in my apartment next weekend.
Husband: (nods)
Woman: But the goddamn stripper won’t return my phone calls.
(waitress brings shots)
Woman: What is this?
Waitress: Tequila, on us.
Woman: This’ll put hair on my boobies.
Husband’s friends: That’s just how he likes it.
Husband: (nods)
–Brother Jimmy’s BBQ, Upper West Side
Sixth‐grade boy #1: What’s my stripper name?
Sixth‐grade boy #2: Sexy Frank.
Sixth‐grade boy #3: No! The names have to have assonance!
Sixth‐grade boy #2: My name is Horny Harry!
Sixth‐grade boy #1: I’m Lubricant Liam!
–121 Lincoln Pl, Brooklyn
Overheard by: Anna
Deranged woman singing “Greatest Love of All”: “They can’t take away my diiiiiiiiignity…“
Passenger: She doing a stripper dance on that pole! Looks like they took her dignity!
Deranged woman: Mommase, mommasa, momma makosa.
Passenger: She bilingual! But she got her dignity back!
–2 Train
Overheard by: never touch the pole
Girl on cell, defiantly: Listen, I can keep my midget in your closet whenever I damn please!
–72nd & Columbus
Man handing out cards to random passers‐by: They have midget strippers, buddy, and you can bring your guitar!
–42nd & 7th
Overheard by: Katy
Guy, to friend: You can’t call yourself a grown man if you sit down and your feet dangle off the chair.
–Victoria’s Secret
Overheard by: Emm
Black guy pushing cart: Man, I miss my two‐headed midget friend… He was my best man.
–Union Square
Woman on cell: Have I been an angry little munchkin?
–Whole Foods, Union Square
Overheard by: TheMac
Thick Brooklyn accent guy #1: Ten‐dollar drinks, fifteen‐dollar burgers…that’s how these strip clubs get you.
Thick Brooklyn accent guy #2: Yeah man, forget the food. I’m a fucking Pussetarian.
–W 34th St & Broadway
