Wednesday One Liners Lie about Their Size

Loud guy: I can turn my dick into a Whopper with fries!

–MacDougal Ale House

Overheard by: Ladle

Small Indian boy: Penis! Penis! [His mother scolds him in Hindi.] … Penis!

–47th & 5th

10-year-old boy to friends: … And then he drew, like, three penises! And then I had to get home in, like, three and a half seconds!

–11th & 3rd

Overheard by: Hannah

Suit to another: Jesus Christ! It’s not my fault your penis drips!

–Times Square

Overheard by: Sydney

Dude to friend: Let’s think of words that rhyme with ‘dick.’

–49th & 7th

Pre-med chick: We had this cadaver in lab that we called ‘Schlongo’ because his penis was a foot long. No, seriously, it was really a foot long!

–Bodies Exhibit

Overheard by: a.j.w.

Posted on August 31, 2014
Bars & Clubs, Books & Writing, Death, Default, Gripes, Guys, Junk Food & Fast Food, Kids, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Museums, Penis, Students, Suits, The Village, Time, Times Square, Visual Art, Weirdness

Still More Insightful than Ann Coulter

Teenage girl #1: Yo I heard they have, like, a…circle, and they think it’s art.
Teenage girl #2: Shit’s retarded.

–in front of MoMA, W. 53rd Street

Overheard by: David Last

Fat guy: Yeah, this O’Connor thing is really big. Most people don’t know this, but the Supreme Court has the final say over all laws that are passed. I think they approve it before even the President does. Like I said, it’s big.

–Florent, Gansevoort Street

Overheard by: Hampton Catlin

Posted on August 24, 2014
Insults, Politics, President, Stupidity, Visual Art, Wednesday One-Liners, Wednesday One-Liners Vary

Oh, Snap! Secretly Served!

Loser: You know what’s funny? I’m actually more creative when I have thumbnails.
Artist (overhearing him, under her breath): Then you’re not that creative.

–Holiday Markets, Union Square

Posted on August 7, 2014
Artists, Comebacks, Idiots, Questions, Union Square and East Village, Visual Art

Only in New York

Son, looking at sculpture of Mary with Jesus in lap: Who's that?
Mother: Christ.
Son: Who's Christ?
Mother, shouting: Jesus Christ!

–The Cloisters

Overheard by: sope

Posted on October 24, 2010
Families, Jesus, Moms, Parents, Questions, The Met, Visual Art

Tracy Chapman Only Needs One

Girl #1, touching bamboo sculpture: Rose, how do you think they're gonna get this down?
Girl #2: I dunno, untie it?
Girl #1: But I mean… Are they gonna, like, move it to a warehouse or, like, incinerate it? That's super not ecologically sound.
Girl #2: Um…
Girl #1: Fuck! They should just put pandas up here. Like a shit-ton of pandas. One, pandas eat bamboo. B, it would get the job done fast and all that would be left is the rope. Three, the more pandas eat, the stronger they get; the stronger they get, the more they bone, and then they're less endangered. Four, it would be really cute on the news, and… Five? Dude, pandas!
Girl #2: Are you high?
Girl #1: I've just had a Riesen.

–Roof Garden, The Met

Posted on August 21, 2010
Animals & Nature, Food, Girls, Questions, Straight Trippin', The Met, Trees and plants, Visual Art

Psh, That's What You Said About Blowjobs.

Young black guy to old white man, about installation art piece: See this one? That's called conceptual art.
Old white man: So whoever buys it puts it in the corner of their room?
Young black guy: Well, it's not really meant to be sold…

–Arario Gallery

Posted on July 20, 2010
Black People, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District, Money & Class, Old People, Visual Art, White People

Abstract Expressionist Wednesday One-Liners

Woman sitting in front of bar with friends: I approached motherhood like I approached my art…

–9th St & Ave C

Overheard by: Juliet

Street artist to tourist: I don't have empathy, I paint empathy.

–Soho

Hipster arty type to another: She deserves to be roofied; her prints are horrible.

–Pratt Institute

Hipster to another, at Georgia O'Keefe exhibit: That's a lot of vaginas.

–Whitney Museum

Four-year-old boy to father, at 17th century furniture room: This place gives me the creeps!

–Metropolitan Museum of Art

Overheard by: Me too

Mother to child: I seen that picture you did of that boy kissing that girl. (pause) Darren, your art shit is going far!

–Times Square

Posted on July 7, 2010
All Wednesday One-Liners, Alphabet City, Artists, Arts & Letters, Bars & Clubs, College, Compare/Contrast, Dads, Families, Friends, Hipsters, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Kids, MoMA, Moms, Museums, One-liners, Parents, Pictures, Psychology, Soho, Times Square, Tourists, Vagina, Visual Art, Wednesday One-Liners, Women

Wasn't This an Episode Of Criminal Intent?

Curator: These were done in live performances. Yves Klein actually used bodies to create these pieces!
Woman: Oh my god!
Curator, smiling: Yeah.
Woman, with horrified expression: Dead bodies!?
Curator: No, live people. (proceeds to laugh awkwardly)

–MoMA

Overheard by: Sarah

Posted on June 20, 2010
Body Parts, Clerks, Death, Laughter, MoMA, Visual Art, Weirdness, Women

…Without Underwear

Dumb girl, slinging leg over goat statue in MoMA courtyard: Take a picture of me riding this goat!
Dumb boyfriend: Honey, you're sitting on a Picasso.
Security guard: You don't need to be smart to go the MoMA.

–Museum of Modern Art