It’s Like Hav­ing a Prin­ci­ple, On­ly Eas­i­er

Gra­nola guy: Yeah man, Ron Paul is awe­some! He, like, votes no on every­thing.

Bon­na­roo Fes­ti­val
Man­ches­ter, Ten­nessee

Her Weight Gain Cowed the Elec­torate In­to Sub­mis­sion

Mom to five-year-old: I don’t like Oprah Win­frey, be­cause it’s her fault Oba­ma is Pres­i­dent.

Den­ver, Col­orado

Over­heard by: David Leech

So I’ll Vote for Him, Too.

Mid­dle-aged male Wasp: I’m vot­ing for Wil Arm­strong.
Mid­dle-aged fe­male Wasp: Is­n’t “Wil” on­ly spelled with one l?
Mid­dle-aged male Wasp: Uh, yeah.
Mid­dle-aged fe­male Wasp: That’s kin­da gay.

Den­ver, Col­orado

Would­n’t That Re­quire the Right to Bear Arms?

Pleas­ant Eng­lish la­dy in line at check­out: Who­ev­er in­vent­ed all these hu­man rights should be shot!

Scott Air Force Base
St. Clair Coun­ty, Illi­nois

Over­heard by: Nin­jamedic

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

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