Upper East Side

Loud, nerdy guy: They’re basically a bunch of shitty MySpace kids with mutant powers. Like the hedgehog kid: his power is that spikes come out of his body, what the fuck is that? I could roll around in glue and syringes and get that guy’s power.

–Prospect Park

Overheard by: Zoh

Middle-Aged man: I think vampires are kind of stupid. They seem to care an awful lot about how they look and what others think. It’s like, who cares? You’re six hundred years old and on your way to hell, hello?

–5th Ave

Overheard by: Someone who thinks he has a point

Asian girl: One of my cousins is a dragon.

–32nd St

Overheard by: sneakyintern

Middle-aged, overweight woman #1: How can these brownies be low fat? Look at these ingredients! Walnuts, almonds… This can’t be low fat!

Woman #2 points to a picture of Marilyn Monroe on the wall.

Woman #1: She was a size twelve, you know.

–Cafe Bacio, 71st & 1st

Overheard by: Emily Duncanson

Hobo: That’s it. I’m revokin’ ya hood pass! Don’t go past a hundred and tenth!

–80th & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Jeremy Cristol

White girl on cell: I can’t take the subway now, it’s 10 o’clock. I’m not black.

–67th & 2nd

Old veteran: Have a Happy Father’s Day!
Dad: Happy Father’s Day to you, too.
Old veteran: Me? Oh no, not me. Well, maybe in Saigon.

–58th St & 37th Ave

Overheard by: Alvin Khaled

Woman: Is there a specific exhibit you’d like to see?
Man: Yeah, I want to see the dinosaurs!

–The Met

Overheard by: Susie

Intern suit: So how do I get that pre-freshman to give me a handjob?
Girl: Do you realize that you’re graduating from college soon, and you’re asking me this?

–60th & Lex

Overheard by: grossed out

Little girl on bathroom line: Mommy, let’s go in that one.
She points to the men’s room
Mother: No honey, that one is for boys. You can’t go in there until you’re 25 and at a bar and you really have to go.

–Panorama, 85th and 2nd

Headline by: Michael Johns

Runners-Up:

· “Hoochie-mama Knows Best” – senzanome

· “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” – William Levy

· “Daddy Always Lets Me” – David Kafrissen

· “Drew Barrymore at the E.T. Wrap Party” – Marc

· “Old enough to pee, good enough for me” – Big Jacobi

· “Ah, the natural desire to return to your place of conception” – MarcusJ

· “Mind Your Pees And Queues” – Dave Barnette

· “This life lesson brought to you by Bacardi” – RyRy

Honorable mentions:

· “…. And he’s really good looking, or he has coke” – Ryan

· “It’s also OK if you’re dragged” – Steve Estes

· “Don’t forget to put the seat back up when you’re done.” – Deek

· “Therapist session (retroactive)” – noa

· “Passing the Torch” – Jessy B

· “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarden” – M. Walker

· “Barfly: Generations” – Derek L.

· “Paris Hilton’s First, And Last, Babysitting Gig” – John P.

· “Never To Early To Have Penis Envy” – Brian Drew

· “Void Where Prohibited” – Dave Barnette

· “Or completely out of money” – Natalie

· “How to raise a winner” – Adina C

· “Because that’s how you’ll get respect, honey” – Amanda

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Girl on cell: Ya know, it’s the smart people not having kids, or maybe having one or two. Its the uneducated that are reproducing more uneducated people. You know that 64% of kids born today are minority. We should build that fence bewteen us and Mexico.

–Ray Bari, 56th & 3rd

Very busy person: In class I start saying “African American” and then I’m like, fuck it, and I say “black black black…” I don’t have time to be saying “African American.”

–27th & 10th

Man with facial hair: You can only really pull off a Fu Man Chu if you’re a cop, a gay porn star, or a pirate.

–Virgin Records, Times Square

Guy to his girlfriend: You are one hairy bastard

–78th & 1st

Mean old New York lady: The hostesses in this place are so rude!

–67th & CPW

Overheard by: a hostess standing next to her

College kid on cell: He used my razor to shave his balls….I didn’t know what to do, I just stood there.

–85th & 2nd

Overheard by: Omar