Rupert Murdoch, at conference: If you wanted to stalk a young girl, it’d be much easier to do on Facebook than MySpace.
Conference attendee: Douche chill…
–Grand Hyatt Hotel
Suit #1, looking down at subway tracks: Man, you’ve got like a foot and a half of empty space there! Come on, how much would you do it for?
Suit #2: Lie down under a train?!
Suit #1: Yeah, man!
Suit #2: One hundred dollars.
–6 train platform, Grand Central
Overheard by: Christine
Fashion suit: Please, help yourself to some breakfast.
Fashion editor-type: No, thanks, I’m not really a food-person.
–Fashion event, Midtown
Suit #1: Don’t you hate when a woman is really pretty and she is dressed so nice, and then you look at her shoes and they are just wrong?! It just ruins it… Don’t you hate that?
Suit #2: I don’t look at their shoes…
Suit #1: It turns me off.
–Cosi, 45th & Madison
Overheard by: BindyNYC
Suit, in serious tone: So yeah, he’s from Mars. No, excuse me, he’s from Jupiter. Sorry.
Lady suit, interested: Oh, yeah?
Suit: Yeah! And the weird thing is, he’s married!
–Sushi restaurant
Overheard by: I’m from Venus
Lady suit: Do you know what your skirt is doing?
NYU student: Is it blowing up again?
Lady suit: Yes. Everyone can see your entire ass.
NYU student: You love it.
Lady suit, snorting: Not really.
–12th & 3rd
Overheard by: Jenna
Five-year-old: Ella, ella, ella, ella, ella, ella…
Suit dad: Alright, look! I don’t know what that means, but if it’s a bad word I want you to stop saying it!
–F train, 23rd St
Overheard by: EmLo
Headline by: Lou P.
Runners-Up:
· “Don’t Fucking Sensor Me, Daddy” – burnt toast
· “Gwen Stefani, Age Five, No Doubt.” – kerm
· “I’m Going to Keep Saying My Name Until You Learn It, Daddy” – Kate
· “Stick to Words I Know, Like “Cock-fag” or “Yankees”” – Louis
Suit with girlfriend to benched hobo: ‘Scuse me — mind if I borrow one of your cigarettes?
Hobo: Well, all I’ve got are these Winstons…
Suit: Beggars can’t be choosers.
Hobo: Yeah, tell me about it.
–Smith & Dean
Overheard by: sb
Suit #1: So, what books do you have on your retirement list to read?
Suit #2: Well, it’s a long list, but at the very top is ‘Finnegan’s Rainbow.’
–47th, between 5th & 6th
Suit #1: So basically what you’re saying is that your misses is a whore?
Suit #2: Yeah, that’s what I’m saying.
Suit #1: And you’re okay with this?
Suit #2: I’m cool with it as long as I keep getting lots of head.
–85th & Lex
Overheard by: marisa
