Words

Health student #1: It’s a man’s obligation to stick his boneration in a women’s separation to increase the population of the younger generation. I got this information from the board of education…
Health student #2: No, it should go like this: It’s a man’s obligation to stick his cockulation into a women’s ventilation to increase the population of the younger generation of our nation. I got this information from the board of education. If you want a demonstration, lie down.

–Middle school, Manhattan

Overheard by: Nathan Red

Texting guy: Hey, I tried to type ‘nipple pasties,’ and the phone knew the word ‘pasties’!
Friend: … Why are you texting ‘nipple pasties’?

–Wyckoff & Stanhope, Brooklyn

Overheard by: smh

Preteen boy to another: Yo, he kilt that dude on the court!
Adult chaperone: ‘Kilt’?
Preteen boy: Killed.
Adult chaperone: And what is ‘kilt’?
Preteen boys, in chorus: A vernacular term.
Adult chaperone: That ain’t English.

–8th Ave-bound L train

Overheard by: i seize teaching opportunities too

Student: Um, sir, don’t you have to divide through by X?
Elderly math teacher: I have no idea what you just said, but I’m sure it was provocative.

–Stuyvesant High

Guy: Do you think Jim’s cute?
Girl: He looks like a baby.
Guy: Like an isosceles baby.
Girl: His head is made of polygons.

–Metropolitan & Lorimer

Overheard by: Olga

Guy #1: You’re killing me vicariously.
Guy #2: Did you just say ‘bi-curiously’?
Guy #1: Wow.

–14th & Broadway

Nasal woman on cell: Heyyy, what you doooin’?
Stoner guy passerby, imitating her voice: Smokin’ weeeed.

–74th & CPW

Ex-Long-Islander #1: … But then he’d have to marry a– What’s the female equivalent of ‘guido’?
Ex-Long-Islander #2: I don’t know… ‘Bitch’?

–LIRR

Overheard by: sarah

Lady suit #1: Yeah, I’ve always been a sun worshiper.
Lady suit #2: And how does your son feel about that?

–34th & 9th

Overheard by: solar spiritualist

Car owner: Yeah, I just bought it. It has a supernova in it.
Friend: It must go really fast.

–Starbucks