29th November 2007

Or It’s A Picture

Uptown Hipster girl talking to her boyfriend typing a text message and trying to use the ‘T9′ function: Maybe they have disemboweling as a hyphenated word.

The Independent
Overheard by Scared for the recipient of that text.

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29th November 2007

If I Didn’t Believe In Automatic Weapons and Mortality, I’d Rob A Bank

Young woman in Paris Hilton glasses commenting on the weather: If I didn’t believe in karma, I’d rob a bank. I have a strategy. …I said, I have a strategy.

4 bus northbound on Lyndale
Overheard by sxoidmal.

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29th November 2007

Reinventing Yourself Is Hard

Gruftie: I can’t quite place your accent. It’s like German… with a trace of Irish?
Rivethead in question: I dun’t, uh, I dun’t…
Tall gothboi: Why are you talking with an accent, anyway? Aren’t you from Iowa?

apartment party, 33rd/Chicago
Overheard by sxoidmal.

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29th November 2007

He Should Be On A Mountaintop Somewhere

Neighborhood guy #1: What’s he doing robbing a place? He ain’t no robber.
Neighborhood guy #2: I know. I thought he was gonna start pimping.
Neighborhood guy #1: It’s like the bible says. Pimps are pimps, dopers are dopers. You can’t be what you ain’t.

On the 14 bus, someplace on Broadway Ave
Overheard by REALLY? The BIBLE says that?

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29th November 2007

Come Back To Land More Often

Marine Biologist: Your computer is running out of battery.
Oceanographer: Let me find my plug.
Marine Biologist: We need to find one of those jack thingys.

U of M Lecture
Overheard by And you have a Ph.D.?

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