Animals

Mother: See that stone sculpture? The lion is attacking the poor man underneath it. The man may get eaten up by the lion!
Eight-year-old daughter: Go, lion!
Mother: No, no, no, no!

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Overheard by: Yugan

20-something on cell: My soul is not a constipated gerbil!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Little boy running from small animal exhibit: Come on, Mom, let’s go find something that could eat us!

San Diego Zoo
San Diego, California

Overheard by: Rasputin

Man looking at anteaters and monkeys in pen: Wow! I didn’t know anteaters were a type of monkey!

Primate House, Denver Zoo
Denver, Colorado

First grade girl: It’s my job to inform everyone about horse dinkers.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Male professor: Yes, Miss…? Uh…
Hot chick, raising hand: Beaver.
Professor: Beaver? How come I don’t remember that being your last name? You don’t look like a ‘Beaver.’ Maybe if you were wet… [Entire class goes silent, then erupts with laughter.]Professor, embarrassed: I meant because beavers live around the water!

History class, Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, Virginia

Overheard by: Classmate

Daughter: How’s Bob doing?
Mother: He’s alive.
Daughter: Well, that’s good. We can’t have a dead cat on our front porch.

Spokane, Washington

Chick: So, are you still trying to work out how to put a G-string on an octopus?

http://community.livejournal.com/overheardinmelb/168856.html

Woman #1: I think my new cat is different.
Woman #2: What do you mean by different?
Woman #1: I’m pretty sure he’s metro-sexual, because he meows like a girl.
Woman #2: It could be worse.
Woman #1: Well, I don’t know — I’m fairly sure he has abandonment issues, too.

http://www.overheardinminneapolis.com/2007/06/her_issues_are_much_more_alarm.html

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Black guy on cell: Man, I just stepped outside and saw, like, ten elephants walking down the street!

Phoenix, Arizona

Overheard by: John Edward Hills