Professor: I have kids. I might have grandkids, but with my children… that probably shouldn't happen.
Arcadia University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Professor: I have kids. I might have grandkids, but with my children… that probably shouldn't happen.
Arcadia University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Law professor: I don’t get paid very well at this job. And I need beer money.
SFSU
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: RL
(odd club music plays in the background)
Student #1: Chef, what are we listening to?
Chef instructor: Just some flippy-trippy sausage making music! It's acid jazz.
Student #2, grinding variety meats: I'm so not on the right drugs for this.
Culinary School
Austin, Texas
Professor on cell: And two students speak at the same time, completely disagreeing with each other. So I just shout “fight!”
University of Oregon
Penn student #1, looking at sculpture: Oh my god, I, like, totally hate art.
Penn student #2: I know, right? They should just buy us all laptops instead.
Locust Walk
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
MHS student to another: Emileeeeeeey… You can’t say the “boner” word at a Holocaust luncheon!
University 4
Moscow, Idaho
Overheard by: i agree
Five-year-old to father: Yay! We're going to the bridge of pies!
Near “Bridge of Sighs”
Oxford
England
Girl: Do you know how much inflow comes from the Colorado River?
Professor: Ummmm…yeah. I do, actually. (doesn't answer question).
UC Berkeley
California
Overheard by: not telling either
Loud girl on cell: I dunno… I mean, it takes a lot for someone to make out with you after you’ve been puking.
Outside Goldwin Smith Hall
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/03/reticent.html
Horny girl: I’m scared! I don’t want to get turned on by a tampon! I don’t want to lose my virginity to a tampon… It’s just, like, vagina creeps me out so bad, like, I look for excuses not to touch it.
Friend: Yeah, vagina is gross. I avoid touching it.
Stauffer Library, Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: andrea