Nervous fourth grader giving oral report: Joan of Arc, the pheasant, was caught in a blender.
Elementary School
Duluth, Minnesota
Overheard by: Nic
Nervous fourth grader giving oral report: Joan of Arc, the pheasant, was caught in a blender.
Elementary School
Duluth, Minnesota
Overheard by: Nic
Girl #1, leaving the mall: Go to Aero… Ari… Aristotle.
Girl #2: Aristotle is not the same thing as Aeropostale.
Girl #1: Then where did I…?
Girl #2 (interrupting): History. You learned about Aristotle in history.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Overheard by: Ashley
Professor: So what happened in Germany between 1928 and 1930?
Student: 1929!
Fordham University, New York
Overheard by: Sromeo
Father on phone to wife: No, it was at dinner, and then this drunk at the next table made a comment about our son. No. He said Josh looked like “a retarded page from the dark ages.” That's not funny. (long pause) I'll schedule him for a haircut tomorrow.
Pennsylvania
Girl on train helping her friend study: Think of a baby crawling back into the vagina and popping out again. That's the renaissance.
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Sitting in front of them for an hour on the train
History professor, during lecture: After all, people have always had dirty…nasty…raunchy sex.
Syracuse University, New York
Overheard by: del
Professor, talking about Meatless Tuesdays during WWI: And what would not eating meat save?
Genius (excitedly): Bullets!
Professor: Um, no.
Genius: By not having to shoot the animals.
History Class, Christopher Newport University
Newport News, Virginia
Overheard by: be CNU
American tourist: Why did they put the castle so close to the airport?
Outside Windsor Castle
Windsor
England
Random freshman: And then this junior girl came up to me and was like, “look at this penis on my locker…his name is Napoleon.”
Lakeland Regional High School
Wanaque, New Jersey
Overheard by: kristina
College student #1: Look, look, it's Martin Luther King!
College student #2: …that's Eddie Murphy.
Madame Tussaud's
Las Vegas, Nevada
