California

Guy at party: Well, I don't know if you can reduce Thoreau to pantheism…
Girl in Avatar face paint: Oh! Reduce!?

Berkeley, California

Guy: I think it's just every guy's fantasy to live with a giant black man and engage in tomfoolery.

Santa Clara University
California

Overheard by: Erin

Guy wearing shirt reading “Dude. Seriously. Fuck you”: Some say I have a face for date rape.

State Fair
California

Overheard by: Sonni

Flippy haired kid: Dude, how can you drink coffee? You might as well be like, drinking the tears of Colombian slave children!

Los Angeles, California

Five-year-old boys, in unison, about female lion strutting around: The mamacita is awake! The mamacita is awake!
Harried mother: I said let's not say that word… Let's say “elfman” is awake!”

San Diego Zoo
California

Asian bimbo #1, filling out apartment application: How do you spell “roommate”?
Asian bimbo #2 : Well… If it's just one person, it has one “m”. It it's two or more, two “m's”

UC Riverside
California

Overheard by: Sophya

Delivery guy to guy wearing “Deadheads for Obama” t-shirt: So the Dead are for Obama?
Man: Uh-huh.
Delivery guy: Then so am I.

Burbank, California

Overheard by: Urzzz

Fat effeminate thug: Bitch, are you a daddy's gurl o' you jus' anotha gorilla?

North Hollywood
California

Overheard by: busninja

Professor: Here you are, every day, sitting in this little cave which is evolutionary very stupid. You're not reproducing while you are in here. You aren't even trying to… Well, maybe that's not true.

Psychiatric Physiology Class
Pomona, California

Overheard by: Whats He talking about again???

Nurse: We had the father bless the house when we moved in, but weird stuff keeps happening. I don't think the spirits are happy.
Secretary: Happy? You need the priest to exorcise your house! You want the spirits to be gone, not just happy!

Hospital
Burlingame, California

Overheard by: Just here for the paycheck