Posts Tagged ‘education’

  • Like High School Needed To Be More Complicated

    Date: 2009.11.22 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Girl ranting on cellphone: Ugggh. So, now she’s all, like, angry and premenopausal.

    Plymouth, Wayzata High School
    Overheard by Technically, so are you…

  • His Liver Is More Impressive Than His Checkbook

    Date: 2009.11.10 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Drunk Guy in Detox: I’m from Edina. I can pay drinking tickets like this, this and that. You should be impressed how many I’ve already paid.

    St. Paul, University of St. Thomas Public Safety
    Overheard by Poor in Comparison.

  • But Without The Sled Dogs Or Frostbite

    Date: 2009.10.18 | Category: all | Response: 0

    20 something female student: My room is, like, the coldest in the apartment right now. It’s like masturbating in Antarctica.

    St Paul, Concordia University
    Overheard by Glad I don’t live in Antarctica.

  • That Was For Science

    Date: 2009.10.13 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Protesting student being dragged into hall by dean: What?? What did I even do??
    Dean: Well, you set the lightbulb on fire.

    Minneapolis, small high school
    Overheard by Maybe he had a really great idea.

  • I Don’t Think You Do Either

    Date: 2009.10.04 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Girl in class #1: Is Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Disney?
    Girl in class #2: No, he’s an essayist.
    Girl in class #1: A what?
    Girl in class #2: An author.
    Girl in class #1: Oh. So, who’s Walt Disney?
    Girl in class #2: Uh… Walt Disney is.
    Girl in class #1, to another friend: UGH. She doesn’t get what I’m asking!

    Burnsville High School

  • And Unlike A Chihuahua, She Can Feed Herself

    Date: 2009.10.02 | Category: all | Response: 1

    Teenage girl #1 to friend: Dude, your sister’s tiny.
    Teenage girl #2: Thanks. She’s like an accessory.

    Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
    Overheard by Gucci or Coach?

  • And Now To All My Thoughts And Dreams

    Date: 2009.09.28 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Choir teacher, to guy from uniform company: Can we get the shirts without the sheen? See, a lot of my men have boobs, and the shiny material clings to every boob and fat roll.

    New Hope, Cooper High School Music Hallway
    Overheard by please, get the not shiny shirts!

  • What She Doesn’t Know Is That Her Meat Judges Her

    Date: 2009.09.05 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Frank teenage girl: Maria* is self-conscious about her meat so she’s moving over there.

    Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
    Overheard by What about her vegetables?

  • Just Don’t Stand Close To Me

    Date: 2009.08.25 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Brunette teenage girl: I didn’t have time to brush my teeth this morning.
    Blonde teenage girl: That’s disgusting!
    Brunette teenage girl: No, it isn’t! I’ve chewed enough gum so that all the germs are gone now.

    Alexandria, Jefferson Senior High School parking lot
    Overheard by ick!

  • A Very Rare Breed

    Date: 2009.05.31 | Category: all | Response: 1

    Girl: Penises look weird.
    Boy #1: I know!  They are like fungi sprouting out of your body!
    Boy #2: They look like… hamsters.

    Minneapolis, South High School
    Overheard by Have you SEEN a hamster?

  • Does She Want It Trimmed?

    Date: 2009.05.25 | Category: all | Response: 1

    Instructor: You’ll notice the young woman in this video doesn’t smile much.  She has an extra tooth in her mouth that most people don’t have.

    Minneapolis, Aveda Institute
    Overheard by comb comb comb cut cut cut.

  • Might Have To Write It Down

    Date: 2009.05.23 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Teenage girl, to friend: The elbow is a euphemism, remember that.

    Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
    Overheard by Not as good as the spinal cord.

  • It Would Be Awkward If You Didn’t

    Date: 2009.05.21 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Girl, to friend: Would it be awkward if I leaned in to smell your perfume and licked your neck?

    Maplewood, MPA
    Overheard by Only if it actually happened.

  • Anyone In A Boy Band

    Date: 2009.05.19 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Stoned Boy in rather quiet library: Who DOESN’T want to look like a buff Jesus?!

    Plymouth, Wayzata High School
    Overheard by I don’t think that’s your history project.

  • Learn Them In Another Language And You’re All Set

    Date: 2009.05.08 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Girl in geometry class to friend: I like the word tangent. Ms. Washburn taught it to me. You taught me “random”, and Laura taught me “rape”.
    Friend: That paragraph just defined us all.

    Maplewood, MPA
    Overheard by The power of knowledge.

  • She Could Use A Break For 8th Grade

    Date: 2009.05.06 | Category: all | Response: 0

    7th grade girl #1: Oh my god, I totally do not want the world to end in 2012!
    7th grade girl #2: Oh, because you don’t want to die?
    7th grade girl #1: No! Because I totally want to have children!
    7th grade girl #2: Well, why don’t you just take one from Stacy*?

    Hutchinson, Local Middle School
    Overheard by Amused/horrified Teacher.

  • 8th Grade Boys And Everyone I Know

    Date: 2009.05.05 | Category: all | Response: 0

    8th Grade Girl: I bet that’s true.
    8th Grade Boy: I bet your mom’s true.
    8th Grade Girl: Who even says that anymore?

    Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy
    Overheard by I guess I’m not up on the lingo.

  • And Now Turn It Into A Flower

    Date: 2009.04.29 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Freshman girl, to friend: You drew a swastika on my notebook?!
    Friend: Yeah?
    Freshman girl, a while later: I wasn’t surprised, just angry.

    Maplewood, MPA
    Overheard by was the peace sign too hard to draw?

  • The Self Loathing Kind

    Date: 2009.04.24 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Boy: The deeper you go into the bucket of emo the more pornography you find.

    Maplewood, Mounds Park Academy

  • All The Buried Treasure Has Been Dug Up

    Date: 2009.04.22 | Category: all | Response: 0

    Girl, during a lecture about modern pirates: So, why don’t we get any pirate attacks in Minnesota?

    Maplewood, MPA
    Overheard by Lake Superior is decievingly dangerous.