College girl: What’s in a gyro?
College boy: Lamb’s meat.
College girl: Lamb’s meat. Is that like pork chops?

House party Dinkytown
Overheard by t.ro.

College girl: Is a hernia where your intestines come out of your poophole?

House party Dinkytown

Shaggy-haired drunk guy: …So i asked him, “Do you wanna be a rocker, or do you wanna go to college!?

Burrito Loco - Dinkytown
Overheard by …both?

Self-Important Waiting Man: This is independent rap music. That means it’s rap music, but it’s also independent.

Al’s Breakfast
Overheard by mike_s, trying to enjoy his eggs (and hip-hop) in peace.

Blonde woman to boyfriend: Remember that one time you told me you thought you had kidney stones? (laughter)

Annie’s restaurant in Dinkytown
Overheard by almost shot milkshake out my nose.

Upset girl to chastised boyfriend: You played fucking beer pong with my MOM!
Boyfriend: Well…
Girl: NO! You play beer pong with my fucking MOM!

Dinkytown
Overheard by You go boyfriend.

Guy in line for bathroom: Doorman, huh? How tall are you?
Really tall guy holding bathroom door: I… don’t… know.

Blarney - Dinkytown
Overheard by aeh.

Guy: I heard about this guy who was sueing the government for a quadrillion dollars. There’s even a lawyer who took the case.
Girl: Why would anyone do that? It’s not even a real number!
Guy: Yes it is, it comes after a trillion.
Girl: It sounds made-up.

4th street, dinkytown, outside the Varsity Theater
Overheard by nerd.

One very serious young man to another as they chained their bikes to a street sign: It’s true, man. Everything *IS* relative.  (pause) Einstein was the shit!

In Dinktyown outside of a coffeeshop.
Overheard by some nerd.

Man, after drunkenly throwing his slice of pizza into the street then retrieving and eating it: I’m just so hungry!

Mesa Pizza in Dinkytown
Overheard by tron.

Drunk Girl #1:  *tastes her Vodka Cranberry* This doesn’t even taste like it has vodka in it, dude.  Is this just cranberry juice?
Drunk Girl #2: *tastes it*  Weird!  I can’t taste it either.  Maybe we’re drunk.

The Library Bar, Dinkytown
Overheard by Lil.

Stumbly girl in the bathroom: I just had a shot of tequila. I need to call my mom and tell her that!

The Library Bar
Overheard by wondering if it brings back memories of childhood for her too.

Homeless Man: Hey Girlie, gimmie a bite of your hamburger. (girls keep walking) Well, my mother ain’t wooden.

McDonalds in dinkytown
Overheard by My Mother IS wooden.