College girl: What's the Irish bacon?
Waiter: It's like Canadian bacon.
–Lyric Diner
College girl: What's the Irish bacon?
Waiter: It's like Canadian bacon.
–Lyric Diner
High school girl #1: Yeah, Americans have no moral values. The United States hasn’t had good morals since, like, the 17th century.
High school girl #2: Yeah, I know.
High school girl #1: I mean, you could walk down the street naked and no one would say anything. That would never happen in Europe.
High school girl #2: Yeah, but in France women wear tight, revealing clothing, too.
High school girl #1: But in France it’s fashionable. Here it’s just slutty.
–Victory Blvd, Staten Island
Overheard by: The US wasn’t a country in the 17th century…
Hispanic boy #1, taking picture of two others: Yo, stand still. Try not to laugh! Think of dead puppies or dead babies or somethin’.
Hispanic boy #2: But that will make me laugh!
–Lehman College cafeteria
Overheard by: Angelica Cayne
Chick #1: I can’t wait to hang out next semester!
Chick #2: Oh, I won’t be here.
Chick #1: Where are you going?
Chick #2: Dude, I’ll be in Paris for spring semester.
Chick #1: What? Who from Jersey goes to Paris?
Chick #2: Hello, Liz from Jersey.
Chick #1: Dude, you’re gonna miss Jersey so much!
Chick #2: I know.
Chick #1: Yeah, Paris is so lame. You so shouldn’t go.
–Columbia University
Professor guy: You see, anamorphic art is all about perceptions; if you look at this image in the right way you’ll see a skull.
Dude: I don’t believe you.
Professor guy: Well then, I suggest you come and try to discover it yourself; it’s like finding the G-spot, kids.
–Manhattan College
Overheard by: Boconnor
Student: I saw my professor in the park over the weekend.
Friend: So?
Student: It was three in the morning. And he was exposed… He was peeing.
Friend: Huh. I wonder if he has tenure.
–Coles Gym, Mercer Street
Overheard by: Studying for Finals at NYU
English professor: Actually, I am from the same town as Robin Hood.
Student: Wait, have you met him?
–Eugene Lang
Student: What’s your name?
Professor: Doesn’t matter. Someday we will all be famous and anonymous.
–NYU
Overheard by: teaching the future of america
Professor: Have a good weekend! [Pause] What day is today?
Students: Monday.
Professor: Shit!
–NYU
