Overheard in the office

Posh & prim boss: Hi there, how are you today Marco? 

Marco the Sweat-drenched Serb: Sweating like a whore in church, but I’m alright.

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Overheard on move-in day

Saddened spirit coming off a summer 9-to-5: I am going to need you all to start saying very funny things very soon. 

Friend 1: Why?

Friend 2: What do you mean?

Friend 3: We’re not entertaining you enough? Is that really all we are to you…mere jesters? 

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Overheard in cafe

Sorrowful romantic: Worst case scenario, do you think it’s better to stay single forever or revisit my past?

Sensible friend: By “revisit your past,” do you mean get back with your ex-boyfriend? 

Sorrowful romantic: I didn’t say that.

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Overheard through iMessage

Boomer mother, texting son: Hi sweetie. How’s my brilliant, Mr. Rizz doing?

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Overhead in France

Aging cousin, in distillery: I miss valium.

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Overheard in newsroom

Health-conscious boss: If you’re gonna take risks with your life, take it with something more exciting than cereal.

Daredevil employee, chowing on Coco Puffs: There’s nothing more exciting than cereal.

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Overheard in book store

Steamy, typo-ridden erotic novel: ‘I could hear her exhaling steam.’ 

Concerned reader: Why was she exhaling steam? That doesn’t sound very healthy. 

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Overheard on a bus

A humanist, shackled by BSE: I don’t have time to read Proust. I’m searching for my own lost time.

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Overheard while debating picky eating

Thinks Coke Zero is better: Zero coke people are notoriously very adamant.

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Overheard at the RNC

J.D. Vance: The Greeks were so advanced because they embraced homosexuality. But then the women ruined everything.

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Overheard at a gas station in Floyd County sitting in an idling truck with the AC turned to 0 degrees on August 2

Over-it intern: Everyday I listen to my coworker’s homeopathy TikToks aloud.

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Overheard through Instagram

Obsessed stalker: Tell her I miss her.

Intermediary: What about her?

Obsessed stalker: Her jokes…her thirst for hot guys…that time she ate frozen pineapple. 

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Overheard in Kwanza Jones Hall

People-pleaser with a streak of narcissism: If people ask me to do something I am often too flattered to say no.

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Overheard over Cap lunch

PTL GSS Senior: Burrata is the manliest cheese.

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Overheard on Murray Dodge Vegan Day

Voice of reason: Just make shortbread. The people will thank you for being brave.

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Overheard in the CJL

Just declared SPIA: Athens, the land of my people.

Greek: Are you half Greek?

Just declared SPIA: No. I just believe in democracy.

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Overheard during the last week of classes

Upper-class professor: What’s your plan for next year?

Upper-class senior: Probably some unserious grad program.

Upper-class professor: Well, there are plenty of those. Just make sure it’s paid. Paid grad programs are welfare for the upper class.

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Overheard in VIS seminar

Millennial dudebro professor: I had a friend in high school, we called her 'Sniggles,' because she laughed with her lips closed… like… teee heeee… heee hee heee…

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Overheard in Civil Liberties

Robert George: The way he came up to me in a fuck ass bob and straight up asked me what kind of gay I was…it was the highlight of my night.

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Overheard while discussing literature

Aroused, yet learned academic: He’s some sort of existential masturbator. 

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Overheard in pitch meeting

Editor of the Nassau Weekly: My family hires Amish people because they're cheap.

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Overheard in Firestone, C Floor

11th-year grad student: The only reason we’re not insane right now is truly just a lack of imagination.

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Overheard in SLA345

Professor recounting his weekend: I gave a little speech comparing marriage to the Soviet Gulag.

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Overheard over cereal

Cereal snob, side-eyeing M&Ms in milk: It’s okay what you’ve done.

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Overheard in reference to a card trick

Social scientist who desperately wants to be more quantitative: I had to teach my magician friend Bayes’ Theorem to get him to learn that one.

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