How The Wizard Of Oz Became a Navy Training Film: Explained

Midshipman: It's midgets, sir.
Skeptical lieutenant: Is it like albino midgets or something?
Midshipman: No, sir, regular midgets.
Skeptical lieutenant: Oh well…okay, then.

NROTC Classroom
Atlanta, Georgia

Posted on April 3, 2009
Class, Compare and contrast, Default, Georgia, Guys, Questions, Words

To the Maximum Extent Practicable

20-something to friend: How much next are you?

Wal-Mart
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Posted on April 2, 2009
Alabama, Compare and contrast, Default, Friends, Questions, Stores, Weirdness

And Don't Let Windows Hit You on the Way Out

Lecturer: You just want to drag and drop this, like you would with your lover the next morning.

Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
Christchurch
New Zealand

Overheard by: I wish I took this class…

Posted on April 2, 2009
Compare and contrast, Default, New Zealand, Relationships, Religious fanatics, Weirdness

Those Lean Cuisine Commercials Have Rocked Our Society to the Core

Girl #1: You know, thanks for listening to my problems. I know you've got a lot of your own, and they're totally worse than mine.
Girl #2: Dude! My problems are like…I had really crappy Chinese for dinner four hours ago shit. Your problems are just like, you had chicken and a salad for dinner last night shit. It's totally cool.

East Tennessee

Overheard by: yeah? well i had lasagna for dinner.

Posted on April 2, 2009
Birds, Compare and contrast, Default, Food, Girls, Gripes, Tennessee

…And Scuttling Away, Like a Hermit Crab.

Female shopper, surveying bathing suits: The crotch in this looks a little, uh…narrow. Tiny, actually. I feel like it doesn't provide full coverage.
Sales girl: I know. It's sort of the style now, though.
Female shopper: What do you mean, “style”? My labia showing?
Other shopper, walking up: Yeah, I agree. I don't want my vagina suddenly falling out at the beach.

American Apparel, Capitol Hill
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Celessa

Posted on April 1, 2009
Clothes, Compare and contrast, Customers, Default, Employees, Fashion, Feelings, Girls, Questions, Stores, Vagina, Washington, Words

I'm a Bit Worried About Our “White Power” T-Shirts

Girl #1, looking at group of guys hanging out on the corner: They look like skinheads!
Girl #2: They're black.

Claremont, California

Posted on March 29, 2009
California, Compare and contrast, Default, Girls, Race, Words

I Gotta Get Home for Shabbas

Hobo, picking through recycling for cans and bottles: Thank god it's Friday!

Central Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Posted on March 28, 2009
Compare and contrast, Default, God, Happiness, Hobos, Massachusetts

Then I'd Punch Her in the Face

Guy to friend: If I walked in on you making out with my little sister I would punch you in the face! But then I would be like, “Eh…she could do worse.”

Amherst, Massachusetts