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Overheard in local coffee shop
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Consulting interviewer: Are you vegetarian? Fretful candidate: Inaudible response Consulting interviewer: Oh yeah, that speaks volumes then.
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Overheard in Pittsburgh
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Has beautiful, luscious locks: I am going to go get my wig from the car now.
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Overheard at Frick
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Billionaire alumnus: I’ve gotta be sparing with my business cards. My wife does sustainability and she says I can’t print any more of them.
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Overheard in a Yeh Residential Kitchen
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Math Major in the Midst of a Game of Codenames: Is pie cylindrical? Astro Major: Have you ever *seen* a pie?
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Overheard in the U-Store
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Abuser of narrative: You’d be shocked to hear this — I rarely have dreams about murdering people.
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Overheard on a night out
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Loving firefighter: I don’t think it would be good for you to consider this flame.
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Doctor Manson removes the elastic wrapping from my face and holds the unblooded side of the knife to my eyes.
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A smiling ball of black stares back at me.
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Late at night, she felt the familiar warmth of her dog curled beside her, a comfort against the creeping darkness.
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But when she turned to pet him, her hand brushed against a thousand tiny legs scuttling away into the shadows, leaving her utterly alone.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself untransformed in his bed.
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He failed to become an enormous insect.