Dude #1, seeing sign reading “cum laude”: Look at that sign: cum load!
Dude #2: I was just going to say that!
Mol
Belgium
Dude #1, seeing sign reading “cum laude”: Look at that sign: cum load!
Dude #2: I was just going to say that!
Mol
Belgium
Black guy: Hey! What country you from?
Asian girl: Um… America?
Black guy: You look Chinese.
Asian girl: I am?
Community College
Godfrey, Illinois
Overheard by: M
Girl #1: Corey’s* got a treatment scheduled for Monday.
Girl #2: What’s wrong with him?
Guy: Nothing.
Girl #1: He’s got cancer.
Guy: He’s fine. People get cancer all the time.
Nicholls State University
Thibodaux, Louisiana
Girl to friends: He looked like a Mexican vampire, and it did not work for me.
Clarksville, Maryland
Overheard by: I can see why
13-year-old boy in black “Rock On” shirt: I want a pink ball. Pink is manly.
Stephens City, Virginia
Overheard by: Tybois
Little girl, holding mannequin’s hand: Daddy! Daddy! Look!
Dad: Is that your new mommy?
Little girl, singing: No! She doesn’t have a head!
Coralville, Iowa
Serious gentleman: The historical figure from recent history that I most respect? I’d have to say… Gandhi.
Cute young woman: Gandhi? I think I’ve seen some of his work…
Dinner Party
London
England
Teacher, about Thoreau: Who’s heard about the cone of silence?
Kid: I know about the cone of shame!
Concord Museum
Concord, Massachusetts
Girl selling coffee: Do you want sugar in this?
Guy buying coffee: How big are your cups?
Girl selling coffee, face turning red: That’s a bit personal!
Scotland
Overheard by: somedaftlassie
Philosophy student #1, about biomedical ethics: Yeah, we just don’t know enough yet to go around screwing with genetic manipulation. Like, cloning people. That creeps me out.
Philosophy student #2: That sheep they cloned, Dolly. She died recently, didn’t she? She was like five or six years old.
Philosophy student #1: Yeah. I don’t think she lived very long.
Philosophy student #2: What’s an average sheep lifespan?
Philosophy student #1, in defensive tone of voice: I don’t know! I don’t care about sheep!
Vancouver
Canadia
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