Nerd #1: His dad was in the first white reggae band in San Antonio.
Nerd #2: Wow.
Nerd #1: Yeah. So it’s, like, in his blood.
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: texan tempest
Nerd #1: His dad was in the first white reggae band in San Antonio.
Nerd #2: Wow.
Nerd #1: Yeah. So it’s, like, in his blood.
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: texan tempest
Geek #1: I would totally do Chun-Li.
Geek #2: Dude, she’s a fictional video game character…
Geek #1: I don’t care, she’s smoking hot.
Geek #2: Whatever, she’s only 16-bit.
http://overheardina2.blogspot.com/2006/05/16-bit-love.html
Overheard by: eric
Computer nerd on laptop: See that walking cucumber over there? (pause) Yeah, well, I have a magic sword!
Dartmouth College Library
New Hampshire
Overheard by: Madeleine
Dorky calculus prof: And do you want to know why I am going to show you this problem again? Because I have six minutes to kill and if the department head stops by and sees that I let you out early…he is going to spank me! (class laughs) And that's entertainment I am not interested in! (six minutes pass and the prof assigns homework) I bet that spanking sounds awful great right now!
Miami University, Florida
Overheard by: bad mental picture
White geek girl: I swear, if it's the goddamn Macarena, I'm gonna cap a bitch!
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Guy trying to impress girl: So then I mastered a few languages, and after that it was pretty easy to get hired.
Girl: Oh wow! What languages?
Guy: C++.
Yellow Line Train
Washington, DC
Dorky girl: I think when the sugar is visible, that's a good sign.
Sarah Lawrence
Yonkers, New York
Geek girl to another: We need to find someone who’s had a lot of sex.
University of Sydney
Australia
Virgin: He has to save the universe! Do you know what that’s like? Do you know what that feels like? No! Because you’re not Luke Skywalker!
http://overheardatstanford.blogspot.com/2006/05/in-psych-ward-far-far-away.html
Nerd: Just think of how much money I saved over winter break by playing World of Warcraft — it was 10 dollars a month instead of paying for all the stuff I would have done had I gone out.
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/01/breaks-broke.html
Overheard by: doug