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Overheard on the Dinky:

Girl #1: I know people who have never been to Twist.

Girl #2:
Really?

Overheard walking back from Frist after midnight:

Girl: [To friend] I hope she doesn't think this is, like, a lesbian booty call. I really just want the adderall.

Overheard in Firestone:

Ivy Pi Phi: She was wearing that same dress from her birthday party.

Ivy Theta:
Is that the night we almost got raped in the pizza parlor?

Ivy Pi Phi:
Yes, and she gained like ten pounds.

Overheard in Terrace:

Bro looking into mirror of Terrace bathroom: [To himself] "My hair looks fucking awesome!"

Overheard at Ivy formals:

[someone vomits in the Mens room]

Junior: Now that's a sound I like!

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Overheard in Prospect Garden

Guy: I never accept friend requests from Asians.

Girl:
Why?

Guy:
Well, you know, if you give a mouse a cookie...

Overheard outside Frist

Guy: I never accept friend requests from Asians.

Girl:
Why?

Guy:
Well, you know, if you give a mouse a cookie...

Overheard crossing Nassau St.

Housewife: —because I’m the only person who tries to tell the truth like it is—

Husband (interrupting):
Yes, but half the time you tell it wrong.

Overheard outside Graduate department lounge:

Male GS: If Jesus came back today, people would probably think he was a zombie and kill him.

Female Chinese GS:
Why?

Overheard at Halo pub

Obese woman: That’s right, I’ll be singing in the opera.

Patron:
So... you’re an alto?

Overheard after pseudo-science lab

GS Instructor: What was she on? She looked really drunk.

Student 1:
Coke, I think.

Student 2:
No, you missed the first part of the conversation. She was reminiscing about being on coke.

GS:
Well, was she drunk?

Student 2:
Oh, and how.

Overheard in the U-Store

Alum: We had pizza and stuff... There was no edamame when I was at Princeton! We should head out.

Alum’s Friend:
Wait, but, we are ending up in a bar at the end of the tour, right?

Overheard on Alexander Beach

Girl 1: Do you want to come to Twist?

Girl 2:
Sure, I’m just gonna throw up first.

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Overheard in PHI 360

Sophomore: Socrates is my homeboy,

Overheard on Witherspoon Street

5-year-old: It's Barack Obama!
Mother: Honey, not every black man is Barack Obama. [To friend.] I guess I should expose her to more diversity.

Overheard in our Spam Folder

This is your penis: 8--o
This is your penis on drugs: 8 =====O

Overheard at Terrace

Girl: Maybe I have horrible gay-dar because I'm from Texas and no one there wears skinny jeans.

Overheard in Lewis Library

Backward Cap: Well, what other job could make you at least half a mil?
Polo Shirt: A Princeton degree does a lot for you that way.
Cap (near despair): The value is decreasing now!
Shirt: You're right. A doctor, a lawyer... I'm not sure anymore.

Overheard in our Inbox

Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Wong Tung Shun Peter Jp Non
Executive Director of the Hang Seng
Bank Ltd, Hong Kong. An Iraqi named
Haider Hanoon, a business man made a
numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar
months, this is valued to Fourty Four
million Five Hundred Thousand United
State Dollars only in my branch. We
later found out that Haider Hanoon and
his family had been killed during the
war in Gunfire that hit their home at
Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well
was. I am prepared to place you as the
next of kin to share the money with you
in half But I first will need your help.

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Overheard at Charter

Friend 1: We should play squash sometime.
Friend 2: I haven’t played a sport in five years. I haven’t played a
sport that wasn’t ultimate frisbee in eight years.

Overhead in East Pyne

Student 1: When I was studying the Language of Love under Daniel Heller-Roazen . . .
Student 2 (interrupting) : Were you studying the Language of Love, or were you studying him?
Student 3: I mean, how can you know the dancer from the dance?

Overheard at Terrace dinner

Guy 1: Do you want to commit to a hate crime?
Confused kid: Wait . . . do I want to do what?
Guy 1 (louder): Do you want to commit a hate crime?
Confused kid (earnestly): Do I want to cut your hair?

Overheard in the basement of McCosh:

Guy (awkwardly): Hi, [redacted].
Girl: I bet I don't want to know what's in that paper bag!
Guy: I packed a lunch! Just kidding, they're testing my pee. Why else would the bag be so warm?

Overheard in the basement of McCosh

Guy (awkwardly): Hi, [redacted].
Girl: I bet I don't want to know what's in that paper bag!
Guy: I packed a lunch! Just kidding, they're testing my pee. Why else would the bag be so warm?

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Overheard in Seminar

Professor: What we need in this classroom is cocaine. Then we can do 4 projects at once. Surely its been done before in the history of this great University.

Overheard at TI

Terrace member, to fratty friend: So, are you still committed to going into
finance, even with the recession?

Fratty friend:
I don’t know. What’s the other option?

Overheard on a poster

Poverty simulation today. . . . Free lunch provided.

Overheard in Ivy

Guy, to friend, while Internet shopping: If I were a girl, I would definitely wear heels with those jeans.
[Pauses]
I just know this about myself.

Overheard at dinner

Guy: What are you studying?
Girl: German.
Guy: Oh! I know some German. “Ich bin müde.”
Guy 2: “Das Boot!”
Guy 3: “Wolf Blitzer!”

Overheard at TI, again

English major: Am I high? I took the express train to Highville; upon arrival,
I was elected mayor.

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Overheard in East Pyne

Leggy Intellectual: I am so not an American; it's taken me a long time to relate to people like Neil Young.

Overheard in East Pyne, again

Girl 1: At least you didn’t fall for a hobbit who left you for a cross-eyed girl.
Girl 2: Yeah, but I fell for a hobbit who left me for a man.
[pause]
I guess he didn’t really leave me.

Overheard at Wendy's

New School Student 1: I’m black.
New School Student 2: Not really. You’re like Obama-black.

Overheard in Ivy

Female economics major: Are you going to work for an investment bank this summer?
Male economics major: I don't think so. Investment banking is okay, but my real passion is consulting.

Overheard in Forbes

Student running for USG office: (knocks on door)
Guy in room: (answering) Hello!
Student running for USG office: You are so great at hearing!

Overheard at the Whitney:

Kid (looking at a Pollock): It looks so good, I just wanna lick it up!

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Overheard in Pyne

Girl 1: I just ate so many Wheat Thins, but I’m still hungry.
Girl 2: For what?
(Pause)
Girl 1:
Retribution.

Overheard at Cottage

Guy 1: I think you have a coke problem.

Guy 2:
I don’t have a coke problem. I have a masturbation problem. I went home last night, blew two and a half grams, and jerked off for ten hours.

Overheard in the Oval Office

Princeton Economics Professor Harvey Rosen: Capitalism without losses is like Christianity without Hell.

President George W. Bush: Harvey, stick to economics.

Overheard in a Reading Group about Homelessness, circa 1995

Toni Morrison: When we discuss homelessness, we rarely ask, “Why do we value the home?” What about people who have too much home? People who can’t leave home?

Overheard in Prospect Garden

Theta ‘09: Watch out for those SAE pledges tonight, because you’re going to have to make out with all of them.

Theta ‘12:
Oh, okay!!!

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Overheard at MOL 101-B Lecture:

Frustrated Professor: Are you guys old enough to know when your life is completely meaningless?

Overheard at Ivy Brunch:

Ivy Senior: What a great picture! We're all so beautiful!
Another Ivy Senior: No, you are so beautiful!
Original Ivy Senior: I know.

Overheard at Ivy Pick-Ups:

Ivy Member: I can't give you a hug because you're covered in Andre. If you were covered in something more expensive, maybe. But even then...

Overheard at Richarson:

Gray-haired Flirt: I think it's really great that they have intermission.
Gray-haired Woman: I think it's time for you to find your wife outside.

Overheard in Takacs Quartet Concert:

Elderly Woman: I don't even understand all the fuss about Obama's race. I mean, he's not even that black.

Overheard leaving Frist on a Saturday night:

Girl 1: I just wanna go to Terrace and smoke cigarettes and be gloomy.
Girl 2: That doesn't sound like a good idea. Let's go to Tower and be HAPPY!

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Overheard at Ivy

Deflated I-banker: I would rather undergro ethnic cleansing than lose my offer.

Overheard at Blackbox

[phat beats]

Overheard at the CJL

Earnest kid 1: And then...I saw that it had bacon on it!
Earnest kid 2, cringing: So what did you do?
Earnest kid 1: Couldn't do it. I just...couldn't do it.

Overheard at Friend

Guy 1: Getting a pre-lab done for you is better than getting a blowjob.
Guy 2: Have you ever gotten a blowjob?
Guy 1: Yeah. I mean...yeah. Well, no.

Overheard in East Pyne

Girl: Today, I stepped in human poop.

Overheard at Ivy

Senior SAE: I think Alan Blinder has Tourette's.
Junior Theta: Oh, really? Is he bickering? Because that would be hard to deal with.

Overheard in front of Laughlin

Girl 1: (from a distance) Hey, wait for me!
Sophomore Theta: (fists raised) RAGE. RAGE, RAGE, RAGE.

Overheard in front of Laughlin

Girl 1: (from a distance) Hey, wait for me!
Sophomore Theta: (fists raised) RAGE. RAGE, RAGE, RAGE.

This Week's Verbatim

Overheard at Quad

Man: What nationality is Lupe? Is he black?

Overheard on Prospect

Polite sophomore: So how was your first Lawnparties?
Polite freshman: It was fun, but crowded. I was right there in the front.
Polite sophomore: Of which club?
Polite freshman: The one that was having it.

Overheard at OA Training

Rick Curtis: If you see lightning and hear thunder, get into the lightning safety position.
[squats]
RC:
Coincidentally, this also happens to be my favorite troweling position.

Overheard on CA

Priviliged freshman girl (whispering to another): We're going into Trenton? I'm so scared.