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College professor: Are you mocking my forest? My forest could kick your forest's butt any day. Bring your forest on!
(later)
College professor: I can see my forest from the window in my office. Do you have an office you can see your forest from?

Keuka College
New York

Overheard by: Rachel Bz.

Teenage girl on bus: Oh, fuck. What is this world coming to? It's like it gets worse and worse.
Teenage guy sitting beside her: What? No. This wouldn't be the worst thing that's happened. Bad things happen all the time. Think about worse things going on right now, or that have been going on, for like, forever.
Teenage girl: It feels like it's getting worse, though.
Teenage guy: But it's not, though.
Teenage girl: Yeah, but, these bad things keep happening. It always keeps happening.
(pause)
Teenage guy: I wanna go see Watchmen.
Teenage girl: Don't, I heard it's not that good.

Bus
Ontario
Canadia

Fag hag, about friend's boyfriend: Well, at least he has a nice guitar.
Fag: No one notices a guy's guitar on the first date…except maybe you.
Fag hag: Hey, at least someone fingered my g-string recently.

Jacksonville, Florida

Overheard by: Ari

20-something foreigner: The Democrats and Republicans… It's like the difference between safe sex and unsafe sex.

Taverna
Athens
Greece

Overheard by: sarah

Little girl: You don’t like me!
Mother: If I didn’t like you, I’d throw you in the dumpster.

North Branford, Connecticut

Girl to friend: Which would you rather die first, the dog or your dad?

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Guy: So yeah, our ice cream is good. It’s not made out of cat.

Ontario
Canadia

Dude to chick: William Howard Taft. That's what I call my penis. Because he is large and in charge. And he got stuck in a bathtub.

High School Law Class
New York

Overheard by: Adrienne

Black professor to black student: So I hold you to a different standard than the white students. (to white student) Except for you. Because you're from Michigan.

www.overheardatyale.com

Overheard by: Overheard at Yale

Male lab instructor: So, really, it's totally unnatural for a human baby to pass through such a small birth canal when their heads are so big. But it's also unnatural for us to give birth laying down. We should stand. Then the canal is more open, and gravity does most of the work. We are fighting nature. Now, why am I talking about pregnancy? I lost my train of thought.

Anthropology Class
Kent State University, Ohio