Trans­la­tion: They Re­ject­ed Me

Loud man on cell: Har­vard is the crusty nip­ple of lib­er­al­ism.

Col­orado Uni­ver­si­ty
Den­ver, Col­orado

So “Lehman” Is Out?

Big-haired moth­er to friends: I like what Sarah Palin did with her kids’ names. I mean, I want to give my kids names that are cool, but noth­ing that would, you know, pre­vent them from be­ing busi­ness ma­jors.

San An­to­nio, Texas

Over­heard by: An East Coast Elit­ist

Yeah the Zo­di­ac Gov­erns Best That Gov­erns Least

Guy: That’s a cool neck­lace. What is it?
Girl: Oh, it’s La­dy Lib­er­ty. I’m a lib­er­tar­i­an.
Guy: Oh cool. I’m a Vir­go.

http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/2007/05/im-fiscal-sagittarius-but-lean.html

Over­heard by: stu­dent

Here, I’m Us­ing Sar­casm to Make a Teach­ing Point

Po­lit­i­cal sci­ence pro­fes­sor: Our pres­i­dent is black. Some of you may have no­ticed this. Some of you prob­a­bly haven’t yet.

Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty
San Mar­cos, Cal­i­for­nia

Over­heard by: I knew it

Ac­cord­ing to This For­tune Cook­ie

Pro­fes­sor: You don’t want to have a thin-skinned Prime Min­is­ter who’s afraid of puf­fin poo.

Uni­ver­si­ty of Ot­tawa
Cana­dia

With a Scary Prod­uct

Girl: Why do they have an am­bas­sador to Vat­i­can City?
Guy: Be­cause it’s a coun­try and stuff.
Girl: Do, like, nor­mal peo­ple live there?
Guy: I don’t know…
Girl, thought­ful­ly: It’s a scary place…

http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/2007/04/its-scary-because-dan-brown-says-so.html

Over­heard by:

Un­less You Count Face­book Sta­tus Up­dates

Suit #1: So you live in the Wa­ter­gate.
Suit #2: I do. The fa­mous Wa­ter­gate com­plex.
Suit #1: It’s fa­mous?
Suit #2: Yeah–the Nixon scan­dal and every­thing.
Suit #1: Oh–I don’t re­al­ly fol­low cur­rent events.

eavesdropdc.blogspot.com

…A Metaphor I Would Know Noth­ing About

Pro­fes­sor: The Gov­ern­ment was spend­ing mon­ey like a drunk­en sailor in a Ti­jua­na whore­house.

Macro­eco­nom­ics Class
Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia

Over­heard by: Econo­met­ri­cal­ly Bored

And the Lake’s Still Frozen

Chick: The pee­ing politi­cian does­n’t float my boat.

Michi­gan

Over­heard by: Meis­ter E

Most Em­my Win­ners Would’ve Pre­ferred That Too

Moody col­lege girl on phone: No, I have to go the macro class right now and pre­tend to be a Re­pub­li­can. If you don’t agree with the pro­fes­sor, you’re wrong.
(pause)
Moody col­lege girl: Yeah, if I can pull this off I de­serve an Em­my, or an Os­car. Hell, I’ll take a cook­ie!

North­east­ern Uni­ver­si­ty
Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts