Wednesday H1N1-Liners

Sick girl: I probably don't have swine flu…but I was in Brooklyn last night.

–90th St & Lexington

Overheard by: UESider

Woman on cell: What's with this pig virus thing going around? It's killing people in Mexico, Europe, here in Queens… (pause) Do that many people eat bacon?

–55th & Madison

Overheard by: Jesus Jon

High school student, watching overheated and smoking car: What the fuck is this shit?! Dat nigga's muffler got dat swine flu!

–M86 Bus

Overheard by: Ben

Hipster guy on cell: Oh, your enthusiasm is just like the swine flu!

–22nd St & Broadway

Overheard by: BL

Amateur rapper, walking down street: If you got the swine flu, bitch, stay outta my hood! Cause the sun it is shinin' and I'm feelin' so good.

–188th St & Washington Ave

Hipster guy: Abby is a total germophobe. She was like, "what have you eaten lately?" and I was like, "a raw pig from Mexico. Is that bad?"

–76th St & 3rd Ave

Posted on September 23, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, Bus, Cars and Driving, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Compare/Contrast, Death, Fears, Food, Girls, Happiness, Hipsters, Illness, Insults, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Musicians, On Cell, On the Bus, One-liners, Questions, Street, Students, Stupidity, The Bronx, Upper East Side, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Women

Like the British Invasion Itself

NYU chick as “Back in the USSR” plays: Why are they playing so much 80s music?
NYU dude: It's cool, it's The Beatles.
NYU chick: Such a weird song, like Russia's all great or something.
NYU dude: I think it's supposed to be ironic.

–Bleecker & Broadway

Posted on September 21, 2014
Idiots, Music, Students, Stupidity, The Village, Weirdness

The Snout and Fangs Were Unexpected

Second grade boy #1: When we get to be 10 years old we’re gonna grow hair in our armpits!
Second grade boy #2: Oh, yeah, that’s true — it happened to my brother!

–Elementary school

Overheard by: sit down and eat your lunch

Posted on September 20, 2014
Age/Aging, Boys, Compare/Contrast, Elementary & Middle School, Hair, Kids, School, Students

The Multiple-Choice Section Of This Wednesday One-Liner Begins Now

Train conductor: If anyone sees a blue and yellow backpack, please give it to the train conductor. Jason has a test and he needs to study.

–4 Train

Overheard by: heather

Random guy walking into the ferry station: I figured if I took the test high, I'd get high scores.

–Staten Island Ferry Station

Overheard by: mindy

Professor: These pop quizzes are like making love: you don't get any points for speed, you get them for accuracy.

–Psych Class, Hunter College

Overheard by: I completely agree

Undergrad: I don't even want to look at my art history midterm yet, but if I don't know how I did, I'll go crazy! It's like a Catch-66! Anyway, I'm going to head back to my dorm and put on some pants.

–Butler Library, Columbia University

Posted on September 19, 2014
Advice, All Wednesday One-Liners, Clothing, Colors, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Compare/Contrast, Conductors, Drugs, Ferry, Guys, Hunter, Offers and requests, On the Subway, One-liners, Public Transportation, School and studying, Sex, Staten Island Ferry, Students, Teachers/Professors, Wednesday One-Liners, Wishes & desires

I Was Also Afraid Of How He Made Me Feel

HS guy: He’s just so irritatingly flamboyant. The first day of class I didn’t want to sit in the front row. I was afraid he’d burst into flames.

–4 Train

Overheard by: Kaitlen

Posted on September 15, 2014
Gays and Lesbians, On the Subway, School and studying, Students

Just Wait ‘Til We Get to the Fungus Unit and I Give You All Lapdances!

HS teacher with PhD, looking in stereo microscope at spores: Oh no, you won’t be able to see the hermaphrodites fully, they’re not sexually mature yet. [Dances around.]Student: Umm… Okay.
HS teacher with PhD, clapping hands: What you’ve got there is some sexually frustrated spores [keeps dancing, moves to next station, fiddles around with knobs] Ooh, ooh, your spores haven’t come yet, but they’ll look like mittens when they do.
[Student bursts into muffled laughing.]HS teacher with PhD: I know, aren’t spores fascinating? Are you laughing at my dancing?… Because biology just gets me so excited!

–Notre Dame Academy H.S., Staten Island

Posted on September 15, 2014
Dancing, Default, Education, Laughter, Questions, School, School and studying, Science, Sex, Staten Island, Students, Teachers/Professors, Weirdness

Wednesday One-Liners Didn’t Mean It Like That

NYU nerdy chick on cell: The oral is going to be super hard. …But I think I’ll be good at it.

–NYU

Overheard by: kat

Clerk, to female co-worker: I keep my meat to the side.

–Walgreens, Atlantic Ave

Girl: Bite and suck, bite and suck, bite and suck!

–Szechuan Restaurant

Overheard by: tallierand

Female customer to employee: …the gum that has the things in it. She likes to chew on the ones with the blue balls.

–Duane Reade, Fresh Meadows

Overheard by: evan FM

College sophomore: … So yeah, I said "Mom, stop rotating my pickle!"

–USA #1 Deli, La Salle & Broadway

Overheard by: Xiao Hoah Dze

Father to younger son: So you like second base right?

–Douglaston Market, Queens

Overheard by: Noelle

Posted on September 13, 2014
All Wednesday One-Liners, BJs, Brooklyn, Clerks, Coworkers, Customers, Dads, Delis, Duane Reade, Education, Family Ties, Food, Girls, Harlem & Morningside Heights, Innuendo, NYU, Offers and requests, On Cell, Queens, Questions, Restaurants & Cafes, Store, Students, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, Women, Words, Yeaaahhh College!

What Does Being a Teenager Feel Like, Alex?

Male student #1: It was like that movie where Reese Witherspoon gets finger-banged on the roller coaster.
Male student #2: Oh, yeah, definitely.

–Columbia University

Overheard by: Curious, yet horrified

Posted on September 13, 2014
About Celebrities, Columbia (& Barnard), Columbia University, Compare/Contrast, Movies, Students

Wednesday One-liners Get Paid for It

Girl on cell: No, I am a dirty whore, but I’m a law student; I’m a smart dirty whore.

–51st & 2nd

Posted on September 12, 2014
Hootchies, Jobs & Careers, On Cell, Students, Turtle Bay

Date Much?

Barnard girl: Yeah, so I'm minoring in African dance…
Guy: Oh.
Barnard girl: And homemaking. You know, knitting an crocheting and stuff…
Guy: Ohh…
Barnard girl: But my major is man-hating. Hardcore man-hating.
Guy: (silence)
Barnard girl: Just kidding. Math. I'm majoring in math.

–Starbucks, 113th & Broadway

Posted on September 11, 2014
Columbia University, Dancing, Education, Girls, Guys, Lies, School and studying, Starbucks, Students, Weirdness

Students