Animals

Teen girl: I put my new bra on my cat’s head and he looked like a German soldier.

New Zealand

Overheard by: Schmitty

Child, as his dad videotapes a monkey: I can’t see the monkey!
Dad: You’ll see him when we get home.

Vilas Park Zoo
Madison, Wisconsin

Overheard by: mike

Hippie guy: I suggest you stop picking up small animals and fruit skins. It’s not good for you.

Eugene, Oregon

Science professor: This is plastic deformation, like what happens to those baby-seal catchers. You know, the plastic that comes around soda cans? Sometimes you catch penguins too, but those are much harder–they run really fast, and they have no regard for their bodies. They just throw themselves off cliffs.

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Women in heels on cell: What? You had sex with a junkie? A junkie? (pause) Oh, a *donkey*. I see. (pause) So I guess you were drunk.

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: walking & talking

Guy, with friends: So when, as a child, you kill a pregnant bunny…

http://community.livejournal.com/overheardatbu/52819.html

Overheard by: svggrdnbeauty and i

Teacher: Did you hear Germany got a new polar bear?
German exchange student: Shiza!
Guy: What’s wrong with polar bears?
German exchange student: Ugh… You have no idea.

Grady High School
Atlanta, Georgia

Woman: My salad just made a guinea pig noise.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Dude: You fail to see that the rhinoceros is not pleased that you've clogged the bathtub drain with jam and celery. She's quite angry with you. I mean, if you just shit out a canary, it's not going to want to play tonsil hockey.
Friend: How hard would it be to get you involuntarily committed to a mental institution?

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York

Overheard by: Russ

Stats professor explaining problem: And that comes out to be 13.58 when we hire monkeys to plug in the values on our calculators…[more quietly] I really do love monkeys you know…

Barnum Hall, Tufts University
Massachusetts

Overheard by: Adrian