Clap If You Believe in Wednesday One-Liners

NYU guy: I'm like a centaur, if ya know what I mean.

–University & 4th St

Overheard by: sarah

Female hipster to friends: Well, vampires are the new zombies!

–147th & Convent

Thuggish straight guy to another: Oh, I'd much rather be a faggot than a demon, dawg.

–Park Ave & Spring St

Overheard by: Christopher Schulz

Interviewer, trying to convince interviewee: There's not much of a future in being an elf.

–Macy's

Italian woman, staring at guy wearing Ghostbusters t-shirt: You donta lika da ghosts?

–Meatpacking District

Overheard by: Looking for my proton pack

Posted on April 12, 2015
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Overheard in the Headlines: The Blizzard of ’06

Guy: Here’s to 5 inches or less!
Girl: …I really could take that the wrong way.
Guy: I’m talking about the storm!

–Whiskey River, 2nd Avenue

Posted on April 12, 2015
Anger Management, Animals & Nature, Bars & Clubs, Body Parts, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, On the Subway, Park Slope, Thugs, Union Square and East Village, Violence

Amelie Finally Decided to Feel Flattered

Handsome thug: Damn, girl, you catch a nigga lookin’ like that.
Confused white hipster girl: Um, thanks?

–Fulton St, Bed-Stuy

Overheard by: Bed-Stuy Do or Die

Posted on April 11, 2015
Brooklyn, Hipsters, Pick-up Lines, Players, Talking/Convos, Thugs, Words

It's Wednesday One-Linas, Boo

Thug to girlfriend: Listen, baby, I'm not really lying, fully!

–Ave B & 10th St

Thug: Yo, I wanna go to yoga, son!

–St. Marks Place

Thug: Sometimes I look around and wonder if in my next life I might be a bird.

–1st & 3rd

Overheard by: Angela

Short thug on cell: I'm gonna get you some slippers, mami, so you can show off your feet. Show off your feet. (pause) Show off your feet!

–7th Ave, Brooklyn

Overheard by: Ladle

Thug to thug friend: Yo, man, you gotta wake up and smell them Arabica beans!

–CVS

Overheard by: freshly brewed.

Thug, yelling to female companion: When you gon' let me show you some dick? When you gon' let me show you some dick? Just let me show you to see if you like it! If not, you can go back to those bitches! At least we'll have something in common!

–7th Ave & 21st St, Brooklyn

Thug, excitedly discussing favorite cold stone flavor: Yo, no homo man! Peanut sensation!

–Downtown D Train

Overheard by: Raven

Posted on April 10, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Alphabet City, Birds, Body Parts, Brooklyn, Coffee, Food, Gays and Lesbians, Girlfriends, Lies, Nicknames & name calling, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Penis, Questions, Sensory Experiences, Shoes, Store, Street, Stupidity, Thugs, Union Square and East Village, Wednesday One-Liners, Weirdness, Wishes & desires, Women, Yoga

That Would Be the Cherry on My Sundae

[Thuggish teen prances in front of taxi.]Cabbie: Are you really that poor that you need to walk and get hit by my cab for money?!
Thuggish teen, walking to taxi window: Thats what I do! Mmmhmmm [Eats ice cream slowly at car window.]

–10th St & 2nd Ave

Overheard by: Melissa Anne

Posted on April 6, 2015
Accidents, Cabbies, Cars and Driving, Default, Money & Class, Questions, Teens, Thugs, Union Square and East Village

Here's Your Trophy

Thug: Yo, what time you got?
20-something: It's 7:45.
Thug: Mmm, well girl… What time's your curfew?
20-something: That's the worst fucking pick up line I've ever heard.

–A Train

Posted on April 5, 2015
Default, Girls, On the Subway, Pick-up Lines, Questions, Thugs, Time

Have You Ever Tried Crossing Murdoch?

Boy #1: Yo, I’m telling you son, it was on the news, it was even in the paper!
Boy #2: Pssh, what paper?
Boy #1: The Post.
Boy #2: Yo, The Post is mad gay…Daily News is gangsta.

–Sutter Avenue station

Overheard by: Deshaunicus